释义 |
actualize, v.|ˈæktjuːəlaɪz| [f. actual a. + -ize.] 1. To make actual, to convert into an actual fact, to realize in action.
1810Coleridge Friend i. xv. (1866) 65 To make our feelings, with their vital warmth, actualize our reason. 1823De Quincey Wks. 1860 XIV. 56 When these inert and sleeping forms are organized, when these possibilities are actualized. 1850E. P. Whipple Ess. & Rev. (ed. 3) I. 300 If the phrase, realizing the ideal, were translated into the phrase, actualizing the real, much ambiguity might be avoided. 2. To represent or describe realistically.
1881Athenæum 9 July 39/3 Other writers..have not sufficient imaginative force to actualize a truly imaginative situation, and require the ‘prop of allegory.’ |