anthropomorphize

1. He offered the following example: While park signs in the West exhort people to'Keep Off the Grass,'Chinese versions tend to anthropomorphize nature as a way to gently engage the stomping masses.
   他列举了下面这个例子：西方公园的标识让人“莫践踏草坪，”而中国公园的标识则往往将自然拟人化。

verb

1. ascribe human features to something

   Synonym:    anthropomorphise