personification

英 [pəˌsɒnɪfɪˈkeɪʃn] 美 [pərˌsɑːnɪfɪˈkeɪʃn]

n.  体现某品质或特点的人; 化身; 典型; 拟人; 人格化; 拟人化的东西(或品质等)

复数:personifications

GRE

BNC.20253 / COCA.17240



牛津词典

noun

  1. 体现某品质或特点的人;化身;典型
    a person who has a lot of a particular quality or characteristic
    1. She was the personification of elegance.
      她是典雅的化身。
  2. 拟人;人格化;拟人化的东西(或品质等)
    the practice of representing objects, qualities, etc. as humans, in art and literature; an object, quality, etc. that is represented in this way
    1. the personification of autumn in Keats's poem
      济慈诗歌中对秋天的拟人化

柯林斯词典

  1. N-SING 体现某种品质(或特点)的人;典型;化身
    If you say that someone is the personification of a particular thing or quality, you mean that they are a perfect example of that thing or that they have a lot of that quality.
    1. Janis Joplin was the personification of the '60s female rock singer...
      贾尼斯·乔普林是20世纪60年代摇滚女歌手的代表。
    2. He was usually the personification of kindness.
      他通常都很和善。
  2. N-VAR 拟人化;象征
    A personification of something abstract is its representation in the form of a person.
    1. ...personifications of the attributes of Justice, Prudence and Truth.
      正义、审慎和真理的化身

双语例句

  1. Janis Joplin was the personification of the '60s female rock singer
    贾尼斯·乔普林是20世纪60年代摇滚女歌手的代表。
  2. He was usually the personification of kindness.
    他通常都很和善。
  3. She is the very personification of selfishness.
    她是个典型的自私者。
  4. Hello Kitty is a personification of a cat.
    凯蒂猫是一只猫的人格化。
  5. The rhetorical devices of the idiom can be divided into emphatic repetition, contrast of two alternatives, vivid comparison, allusion and personification.
    修辞手段的成语可分为强调重复,对比两种选择,生动的比较,典故和人格化。
  6. A personification of wickedness and ungodliness alluded to in the old and new testaments.
    彼勒《旧约》和《新约》中邪恶和罪孽的化身。
  7. Correspondingly, there are other ways of imagery thinking different from logical reasoning, such as association, symbolization and personification etc.
    与此相对应,而与逻辑推理不同的,还有从一物到他物的联想、象征、拟人化等等诉诸形象的方法。
  8. He is the personification of pride [ selfishness].
    他是傲慢[自私]的化身。
  9. In the film, she played a character who was the personification of evil.
    在电影里,她扮演了罪恶化身的角色。
  10. Simile and metaphor, personification, pun, parody and the rhyme and so on, is in advertising use frequency is highest several rhetoric method.
    比喻、拟人、双关、仿拟、押韵等,是在广告中使用频率最高的几种修辞方法。
  11. Although she is poor, she is the personification of generosity.
    她虽然贫穷,却是慷慨大方的化身。
  12. He is the personification of honesty.
    他是诚实的化身。
  13. She's the personification of culture and refinement.
    她是文化和教养的化身。
  14. The holistic perceptive manner linking the self and the outside world, the personification of the objective things, the substantiation of the subjective world, and the unity of "my world" are the expression and Realization of children's spiritual integrity.
    联结自我与外界的整体感知方式,乃至于客观事物的人格化、主观世界的实在化以及“我的世界”的统一,是儿童整体性精神的表达与实现。
  15. The translation of metaphors, personification and Litotes etc.
    比喻,拟人及反语的翻译。
  16. The personification of natural forces.
    自然力的拟人化。
  17. More figures of speech are used in English reports in order to enhance the literariness of sports games, like metaphor, euphemism, personification and exaggeration.
    英文报道中多使用修辞来增加体育报道的文学性,如暗喻、委婉语、拟人和夸张。
  18. Audery Hepburn is the personification of natural beauty.
    奥黛丽。赫本是自然美的化身。
  19. In this paper, a personification algorithm for solving the Traveling Salesman Problem ( TSP) is proposed, which is based on original greedy algorithm.
    基于贪心算法提出了一种改进的求解旅行商问题(TSP)的拟人算法。
  20. Marianne wearing a Phrygian cap is the national personification of the French Republic, and a symbol of Liberty.
    头戴弗里季亚帽的玛丽娅娜是法兰西共和国的人格化,自由的象征。
  21. The Mother referred to is both the stern demon-destroying goddess Kali and a personification of India.
    母亲既是严厉的邪恶毁灭者卡利女神,也是印度的一个化身。
  22. As the personification of youth and beauty;
    他是年轻英俊的化身;
  23. Is criticism of Steve Jobs whose personification of the brand is a conscious choice by Apple unfair?
    对乔布斯他成为苹果品牌的化身,乃是苹果有意为之的批评是否有失公平?
  24. He is the personification of pride.
    他是傲慢的化身。
  25. And we tend to think of the president as the personification of the nation he leads.
    而且我们趋向于认为总统是国家的代表。
  26. Those rhetorical devices used in advertisements of enterprises such as trope or transferring meaning, personification, pun and allusion, repetition and parallelism, rhyme, especially alliteration and rhythm offer enjoyment in aesthetics.
    企业广告中运用比喻、拟人、双关和成语典故、反复和平行结构、押韵和节奏等修辞手段,给人以美的享受。
  27. They represented the anger and bitterness of youth struggling for freedom against authority, and for this reason they were regarded by some people as the personification of the permissive society.
    这些歌词表达了为争取自由,与传统权威进行斗争的广大青年的愤怒和怨恨。因此,有些人认为他们是“放任社会”的化身。
  28. The personification of evil as a devil is a feature of medieval painting.
    用魔鬼象徵罪恶是中世纪绘画的特色。
  29. ( New Testament) a personification of wealth and avarice as an evil spirit.
    (新约)作为罪恶根源的财富的人格化。
  30. Personification is the act of representing objects or qualities as human beings.
    拟人是将无生命之物或品质人格化。

英英释义

noun

  1. the act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc.

      Synonym:    incarnation

    1. representing an abstract quality or idea as a person or creature

        Synonym:    prosopopoeia

      1. a person who represents an abstract quality
        1. she is the personification of optimism