Personification
[pə,sɒnɪfɪ'keɪʃ(ə)n] or [pɚ,sɑnɪfɪ'keʃən]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc..
(noun.) representing an abstract quality or idea as a person or creature.
(noun.) a person who represents an abstract quality; 'she is the personification of optimism'.
杰克校對--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The act of personifying; impersonation; embodiment.
(n.) A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstract idea is represented as animated, or endowed with personality; prosopop/ia; as, the floods clap their hands.
錄入:文斯
同義詞及近義詞：
n. (Rhet.) Prosopopœia.
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例句/造句/用法:
- But if, instead of being the personification of reserve and discretion, she were something quite opposite, I should not fear her. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Mrs. Vesey looked the personification of human composure and female amiability. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Dorothea was not only his wife: she was a personification of that shallow world which surrounds the appreciated or desponding author. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- A personification, was Tarzan of the Apes, of the primitive man, the hunter, the warrior. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- In an age when religious faith was declining, we find men displaying a new and vivid belief in the reality of these personifications. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The Bible abounds in such personifications. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- It contained a brilliant account of the festivities and of the beautiful and accomplished Mrs. Rawdon Crawley's admirable personifications. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- In numberless cases, more or less silly personifications were resorted to. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
校對:伊薇特