| 释义 |
concretize, v.|ˈkɒnkriːtaɪz|
[f. concrete a. + -ize.]
trans. To render concrete. Hence ˈconcretizing ppl. a.
1884Athenæum 16 Feb. 209/1 Details of interest are used to concretize..the general laws of development. Ibid. 23 Feb. 241/2 This passage..lacks the concretizing touch. 1942Theology XLV. 109 It seems very hard to understand what personal relation looks like concretized in the bombing of Rostock and Cologne. 1948Mind LVII. 300 The good, for example, when we try to concretise it, is apt to appear as a somewhat complex relation between pleasures and unpleasures. 1952V. Gollancz My Dear Timothy xx. 343 Human ideals, when concretised in legislative enactments, seem to lose..a great part of their life-giving quality. 1963S. Weintraub Private & Public Shaw v. 150 The surviving manuscript shows stylistic changes in G. B. S.'s hand—mainly his concretizing T. E.'s diction... ‘Stay put for ages’ became ‘stay put indefinitely’. |