epitomize

英 [ɪˈpɪtəmaɪz]

美 [ɪˈpɪtəmaɪz]

v.  成为…的典范(或典型)

过去分词：epitomized　第三人称单数：epitomizes　过去式：epitomized　现在分词：epitomizing　

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Collins.1 / BNC.21542 / COCA.12479

牛津词典

verb

• 成为…的典范（或典型）
  to be a perfect example of sth
  1. The fighting qualities of the team are epitomized by the captain.
     这个队的战斗精神从队长身上体现出来。
  2. These movies seem to epitomize the 1950s.
     这些影片似乎就是20世纪50年代的缩影。

柯林斯词典

in BRIT, also use 英国英语亦用 epitomise


• VERB 成为…的典范;作为…的缩影
  If you say that something or someoneepitomizesa particular thing, you mean that they are a perfect example of it.
  1. Lyonnais cooking is epitomized by the so-called 'bouchons'.
     被称作bouchon的里昂小餐馆是里昂饮食的缩影。
  2. ...the sleek lift that epitomized the hotel's glossy decor.
     作为酒店浮华装潢之缩影的豪华电梯

英英释义

verb

• embody the essential characteristics of or be a typical example of
  1. The fugue typifies Bach's style of composition
  Synonym:typifyepitomise

双语例句

• In China, the situation rises to the level of a cultural crisis since the characters, more than any other facet of life, epitomize thousands of years of tradition.
  在中国，这种情税已经发展到引起一场文化危机的地步，因为汉字是几千年中华文化的象征。
• What difference does it make if she's a groundbreaking twentieth-century feminist and the writer she values has come to epitomize the English literary tradition?
  如果一位深具开创性的二十世纪女性主义者，景仰的却是象征英国文学传统的作家，会创造出怎样的火花？
• You epitomize the etymology of enthusiasm!
  你是与热诚的化身！
• Lyonnais cooking is epitomized by the so-called 'bouchons'.
  被称作bouchon的里昂小餐馆是里昂饮食的缩影。
• Language is the symbolic representation of things in categories. Idioms, as a special language form, epitomize these conceptual structures.
  而语言是对一类事物进行概括的符号表征，习语作为一种特殊的语言形式集中反映了这些概念结构。
• Even as it has come to epitomize a certain kind of urbane civilian cool, green field jackets have given way to camouflage prints in the U.S. Army, and the top brass decided to retire the green service uniform as well.
  尽管它已成为某种城市平民时尚的酷风尚，但是军绿野战服已让位给美国军队的迷彩印花，军队高层也已决定淘汰绿色军服。
• Will the departure of CEO Howard Stringer, whose stumbles have come to epitomize the struggles of the once-great Sony Corp., turn things around for the media-and-electronics conglomerate?
  霍华德•斯金格在索尼（SonyCorp.）失误连连的首席执行官生涯正是曾经伟大的索尼集团而今艰难处境的缩影，他的下台能换来这个传媒及电子巨头重振雄风的一天吗？
• The dissertation generalize theory of flutter and other wind-generated vibration, and epitomize the pop and the difficult problem of wind engineering.
  总结了颤振和其他风致振动的理论；
• First chapter is analyzes Mei Lanfang and Kandinsky "the Boner audiences is long" and in the artistic creation in the artistic absorption "establishes a new school", pointed out they" epitomize "in respective domain.
  第一章是分析梅兰芳与康定斯基在艺术吸收上的博纳众长和艺术创作上的独树一帜，指出他们在各自领域的集大成。
• Though short and concise, song titles epitomize all the important information of the songs and they are very helpful in drawing listeners'attention and disseminating the songs widely among people.
  英文歌曲名称虽然简短，却概括出整首歌曲的重要信息，吸引听众注意力。