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单词 sublimate
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Definition of sublimate in English:

sublimate

verb ˈsʌblɪmeɪtˈsəbləˌmeɪt
  • 1with object (in psychoanalytic theory) divert or modify (an instinctual impulse) into a culturally higher or socially more acceptable activity.

    (精神分析理论)使升华

    libido must be sublimated into productive work activities
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The lengths we will go to in order to sublimate ourselves and placate the people we care about is a simultaneously charming and pathetic aspect of human nature.
    • The poet in Lawrence was sublimated by the journalist in him in order to accomplish this project and get paid.
    • So the goofy Greeks decorated their merrymaking in pretty bows and successfully sublimated their impulses with constrictive ceremonial routines.
    • Leopold Mozart was a talented composer, but no more than that, so sublimated his own remaining ambitions to devote himself to the coaching and ‘particular proof’ of his surviving children.
    • Athletes are expected to fight for responsibility and attention but to quickly sublimate those desires when it benefits the team.
    • At its heart is a consideration of the artistic process, a debate over the legitimacy of sublimating social anguish into aesthetic form.
    • In whatever field one has chosen to work, or indeed is forced to work, that activity can be sublimated to the higher position of yoga.
    • A psychologist might interpret my conversion as sublimating my guilty feelings, but I prefer to think about it as fulfilling my Jewish destiny.
    • Libido must be sublimated into productive work activities, and this necessitates the removal of temptation.
    • Too often, however, student needs or preferences are sublimated to the overwhelming task of presenting large bodies of information to large numbers of students in small periods of time.
    • Artists, in this view, are people who may avoid neurosis and perversion by sublimating their impulses in their work.
    • Marley's performance is impressive for all its sublimated emotion.
    • It also suggests a canny ability to sublimate some of the social energy and anxiety toward the secondary ‘desire’: to recreate a difficult problem as easy solvable.
    • Making her own way in a hostile world, she establishes her sons and ultimately sublimates the ego.
    • The learning happened because the youngest stars were more than willing to sublimate their own egos for the benefit of the team.
    • Remembering them daily, learning from them how to sublimate our petty ego to reach the higher self, we transcend sin.
    • Attachment to the wealth in any form is to be sublimated by realization that all the wealth is illusory and the real Lord is our indwelling Self in everything.
    • As Karl Toepfer makes clear, eroticism was understood by many advocates and participants to be a fundamental component of body culture, whether sublimated or expressly promoted.
    • Can she sublimate her ego for the good of the team?
    • They are artists in the truest sense of the word, sublimating their egos and committing themselves fully to the needs of the project.
    Synonyms
    channel, control, divert, transfer, redirect, convert, refine, purify, transmute
    1. 1.1 Transform (something) into a purer or idealized form.
      使纯化,使净化;使高尚化,使理想化
      attractive rhythms are sublimated into a much larger context

      迷人的旋律被升华和融入更恢宏的情境。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • But I'll see if I can actually sublimate the tension into something creative.
      • By emphasizing rather than sublimating the oppositional tensions propelling his belated poetic project, Virgil kept his commitment to the present, even as he ostensibly addressed the past.
      • Terrified lest his secret be made public, and turn him into an object of scorn, he managed to sublimate these fears and transform them into the stuff of comedy.
      • Tonally, the poems from this book sound more distanced and impersonal than any Ryan has written; the strong note of passionate response can still be heard, but the passion is sublimated into an objectivity whose calm is brooding and tense.
      • Instead, he delivers a laudably subdued performance as an aging Gen X-er whose gloomy angst is sublimated into sketches and journal entries.
      • As is the case in plays of this nature, the rest of the cast are sublimated to the greater good of the main part.
  • 2Chemistry

    another term for sublime
    Example sentencesExamples
    • There is no danger at all in consuming a drink that was cooled down using dry ice - most of the carbon dioxide will just sublimate into the air.
    • 78.5°C Temperature at which dry ice (carbon dioxide) sublimates from a solid to a gas
    • Some of the most dominating physical features I've ever encountered, a glacier is a vast mass of ice formed from the accumulation of snow that compacts faster than it melts and sublimates.
    • Were that to occur, it would expose any underlying water-ice cap, which could then heat up and sublimate water into the atmosphere.
noun ˈsʌblɪmeɪtˈsʌblɪmətˈsʌblɪmeɪtˈsəbləˌmeɪt
Chemistry
  • A solid deposit of a substance which has sublimed.

    〔化〕升华物

    condensation of a sublimate
    Example sentencesExamples
    • During the waning stages of eruption, fumarolic activity oxidized cinders along the rim and deposited aggregates of sublimates, hydrothermal precipitates, and reaction products near the central vent of the volcano.

Derivatives

  • sublimation

  • noun sʌblɪˈmeɪʃ(ə)n
    • The microscopic amounts are achieved by superheating managerium so that it changes from a solid directly into a gas - a process known as sublimation.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • All employ a print process known as dye sublimation, and this classy Samsung model is the pick of the crop.
      • In the Faustian pact, where desire and longing is transformed into a new kind of sublimation, the infernal process of turning images of reality into fantasy begins.
      • He does not reserve this response as a marker of bourgeois intellectual refinement and bodily sublimation.
      • To think about sublimation, the process by which an object ‘acquires the dignity of the Thing’, produces a different emphasis.

Origin

Late Middle English (in the sense 'raise to a higher status'): from Latin sublimat- 'raised up', from the verb sublimare.

Definition of sublimate in US English:

sublimate

verbˈsəbləˌmeɪt
  • 1with object (in psychoanalytic theory) divert or modify (an instinctual impulse) into a culturally higher or socially more acceptable activity.

    (精神分析理论)使升华

    libido must be sublimated into productive work activities
    he sublimates his hurt and anger into humor
    Example sentencesExamples
    • A psychologist might interpret my conversion as sublimating my guilty feelings, but I prefer to think about it as fulfilling my Jewish destiny.
    • The learning happened because the youngest stars were more than willing to sublimate their own egos for the benefit of the team.
    • It also suggests a canny ability to sublimate some of the social energy and anxiety toward the secondary ‘desire’: to recreate a difficult problem as easy solvable.
    • Athletes are expected to fight for responsibility and attention but to quickly sublimate those desires when it benefits the team.
    • The lengths we will go to in order to sublimate ourselves and placate the people we care about is a simultaneously charming and pathetic aspect of human nature.
    • The poet in Lawrence was sublimated by the journalist in him in order to accomplish this project and get paid.
    • Libido must be sublimated into productive work activities, and this necessitates the removal of temptation.
    • Leopold Mozart was a talented composer, but no more than that, so sublimated his own remaining ambitions to devote himself to the coaching and ‘particular proof’ of his surviving children.
    • As Karl Toepfer makes clear, eroticism was understood by many advocates and participants to be a fundamental component of body culture, whether sublimated or expressly promoted.
    • Remembering them daily, learning from them how to sublimate our petty ego to reach the higher self, we transcend sin.
    • In whatever field one has chosen to work, or indeed is forced to work, that activity can be sublimated to the higher position of yoga.
    • So the goofy Greeks decorated their merrymaking in pretty bows and successfully sublimated their impulses with constrictive ceremonial routines.
    • Making her own way in a hostile world, she establishes her sons and ultimately sublimates the ego.
    • They are artists in the truest sense of the word, sublimating their egos and committing themselves fully to the needs of the project.
    • At its heart is a consideration of the artistic process, a debate over the legitimacy of sublimating social anguish into aesthetic form.
    • Can she sublimate her ego for the good of the team?
    • Attachment to the wealth in any form is to be sublimated by realization that all the wealth is illusory and the real Lord is our indwelling Self in everything.
    • Marley's performance is impressive for all its sublimated emotion.
    • Too often, however, student needs or preferences are sublimated to the overwhelming task of presenting large bodies of information to large numbers of students in small periods of time.
    • Artists, in this view, are people who may avoid neurosis and perversion by sublimating their impulses in their work.
    Synonyms
    channel, control, divert, transfer, redirect, convert, refine, purify, transmute
  • 2Chemistry

    another term for sublime
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Some of the most dominating physical features I've ever encountered, a glacier is a vast mass of ice formed from the accumulation of snow that compacts faster than it melts and sublimates.
    • There is no danger at all in consuming a drink that was cooled down using dry ice - most of the carbon dioxide will just sublimate into the air.
    • 78.5°C Temperature at which dry ice (carbon dioxide) sublimates from a solid to a gas
    • Were that to occur, it would expose any underlying water-ice cap, which could then heat up and sublimate water into the atmosphere.
nounˈsəbləˌmeɪt
Chemistry
  • A solid deposit of a substance which has sublimed.

    〔化〕升华物

    Example sentencesExamples
    • During the waning stages of eruption, fumarolic activity oxidized cinders along the rim and deposited aggregates of sublimates, hydrothermal precipitates, and reaction products near the central vent of the volcano.

Origin

Late Middle English (in the sense ‘raise to a higher status’): from Latin sublimat- ‘raised up’, from the verb sublimare.

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