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Embody Embodied N Character Verb 动词 Idea   [V

英语单词 embody
英美音标 [im'bɔdi]
中文释义 vt.具体表达,使具体化,包含,收录
vocab简明 To embody a role is to fill it completely. If a high schooler seems to embody the character of Macbeth, his performance might make the audience forget they're watching a dorky 15-year-old with braces.
vocab扩展 If you embody someone, you put him or her "in-body," as when an actor gives a complete and compelling representation of a character. You can also use embody to describe character traits you see in a person, like, “He embodies truth,” or, “She is the embodiment of goodness.”
真题原句 Achievement happens because you as a person embody the external achievement; you don’t “ get” success but become it. There is no gap between mind and matter.
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[VERB 动词]表现,体现,代表(思想或品质) To embody an idea or quality means to be a symbol or expression of that idea or quality.
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  • Jack Kennedy embodied all the hopes of the 1960s...

    杰克·肯尼迪代表了20世纪60年代的全部希望。

  • For twenty-nine years, Checkpoint Charlie embodied the Cold War...

    29年来,查理检查站一直是冷战的象征。

  • That stability was embodied in the Gandhi family.

    甘地家族体现了那种坚定的品质。

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[VERB 动词]包含;包括 If something is embodied in a particular thing, the second thing contains or consists of the first.
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  • The proposal has been embodied in a draft resolution...

    那项提案包含在决议草案中。

  • UK employment law embodies arbitration and conciliation mechanisms for settling industrial disputes.

    英国雇佣法包括解决劳资纠纷的仲裁和调解机制。

  • ...In the British system the executive is supposedly embodied by the Crown and the legislative by Parliament

    在英国体制中,行政权理论上归属君主,立法权则归议会。

来源 2011.6

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