in BRIT, also use 英国英语亦用 popularise
- VERB 使受喜爱;使受欢迎
To popularize something means to make a lot of people interested in it and able to enjoy it.
- Irving Brokaw popularized figure skating in the US.
欧文·布罗考在美国引发了花样滑冰热潮。
- VERB 使通俗;普及;推广
To popularize an academic subject or scientific idea means to make it more easy to understand for ordinary people.
- It was Aristotle who proved the world is round. Plato popularized the concept.
亚里士多德证明了地球是圆的,柏拉图普及了这一概念。