| 单词 | personification |
| 释义 | personificationWord family noun person personality persona personage the personals personification personnel personifieradjective personal ≠ impersonal personalized personable verb personalize personify adverb personally ≠ impersonally per·son·i·fi·ca·tion /pəˌsɒnɪfɪˈkeɪʃən $ pərˌsɑː-/ noun 1 the personification of something TYPICALsomeone who is a perfect example of a quality because they have a lot of it 某事物的化身 He became the personification of the financial excess of the 1980s. 他成了20世纪80年代金融过热时期的一个典型。 Examples from the Corpus the personification of something• Mait had trained him to be the personification of Death, his own private Baron Samedi.• Their twisted cunning movements were vividly contrasted with those she created for Elihu, the personification of Youth and Truth.• Decibel is the personification of an abstract quality.• The heroine, Maryska, is the personification of female sexuality.• Sarah is the personification of feminine innocence.• Also shown are Leto and probably Ortygia, the personification of the island of Delos.• Gallacher was the personification of scandal.• In so far as Jupiter survived he was the personification of Providence or Destiny.• Its hooting was thought to presage death, for owls were the personification of restless spirits returning to earth to seek revenge. 2 [countableC, uncountableU]SIGN/SYMBOL the representation of a thing or a quality as a person, in literature or art 〔文学或艺术中的〕拟人化，人格化 personification of the personification of rivers in fifth-century art 五世纪艺术中对河流的拟人化 Examples from the Corpus personification• The arch spandrels are decorated by figures of winged victory and personifications of rivers.• Political integrity assumes a particularly deep personification of the community or state.• Hera becomes an impartial, giving and destroying, personification of nature at its most hidden.• But I must be clearer what kind of personification this is.• the poem's personification of the moon• Mait had trained him to be the personification of Death, his own private Baron Samedi.• Its hooting was thought to presage death, for owls were the personification of restless spirits returning to earth to seek revenge.• He is, you will also have gathered, the very personification of an arts education commercial.• We find other and even more important examples of working personification in the logic of individual political rights against the state. |
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