| 单词 | characterize |
|---|---|
| 音标 | ['kæriktəraiz] |
| 解释 | v.描述或刻画…的特点 |
| 红宝书 | 【英】 将某人/某事物的特点 描述成或刻画成某事 物(describe the character of SB/sth as sth) 【例】 The novelist characterizes his heroine as capricious and passionate . |
| 字源 | characterize (v.) 1590s, "to engrave, write," back-formation from characterization, or else from Medieval Latin characterizare, from Greek kharakterizein "to designate by a characteristic mark," from kharakter (see character). Meaning "to describe the qualities of" is recorded from 1630s; that of "to be characteristic" is from 1744. Related: Characterized; characterizing. |
| 不择手段背单词 | 无 |
| 趣味全助记 | 【记】character + ize |
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