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Idealize People Idealise Men 英 Aɪ'Diːəlaɪz] 美 Aɪ'Diːəlaɪz V.(使)理想化;理想化地描述

英语单词 idealize
英美音标 英 [aɪ'diːəlaɪz] 美 [aɪ'diːəlaɪz]
中文释义 v.(使)理想化;理想化地描述
英语例句 (1) I warned you not to idealize me.
(2) This is probably true, and it may explain why some of us idealize such societies.
中文例句 (1) 我告诫过你不要把我理想化。
(2) 这可能是对的,它解释了为什么我们常会理想化这些社会。
vocabulary简明 When you idealize something, you think of it as being much better than it really is. You might idealize your beach vacation, completely forgetting that it rained almost every day.
vocabulary扩展 If you idealize your favorite teacher, you imagine that he's even more wonderful than he actually is. Many people tend to idealize marriage, believing that simply being married will make them and their partners blissfully happy all the time. To idealize is to take an ordinary, flawed thing, and turn it into something ideal. In fact, ideal, or "perfect," is at the heart of idealize, with its root of the Latin idealis, or "existing in idea."
柯林斯解释
in BRIT, also use 英国英语亦用 idealise
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[VERB 动词]把…理想化;理想化地呈现 If you idealize something or someone, you think of them, or represent them to other people, as being perfect or much better than they really are.
  [V n]
  • People idealize the past...

    人们爱把过去理想化。

  • I'm not trying to glorify or idealise women.

    我不是要美化女人或把她们理想化。

idealized
  • ...an idealised image of how a parent should be...

    理想化的父母形象

  • Men want to look like the idealized men depicted in advertisements.

    男人们希望自己看上去像广告中描绘的那种理想化男人。

idealization
  • ...Marie's idealisation of her dead husband.

    玛丽对亡夫的理想化描述

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