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单词 embodiment
释义
embodimentem‧bod‧i‧ment /ɪmˈbɒdɪmənt $ ɪmˈbɑː-/ noun Examples
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • A firewall is an embodiment of this security policy.
  • It constituted the institutional embodiment of proletarian unity and class consciousness.
  • It was also a kind of Chartres Cathedral, a perfect embodiment of its genre.
  • It was the living embodiment of his most passionate convictions.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
· She was, he thought, the very embodiment of bitterness.· One day, a woman turned up who must have seemed the very embodiment of that nature he was tussling with daily.· This house was the very embodiment of sleazy discomfort.· She was the very embodiment of his desire for the unknown, the unknowable, the other.
VERB
· Presumably what he means is that at that point they will have lost their representative character and become embodiments of the divine.· Women often become the embodiment of both the interesting and the insoluble questions in these areas.· According to Gandhi, it is when symbols become fetishes and embodiments of the divine, that they might be construed as idols.· Back in 1977, they became the living embodiment of everything that was wrong with rock'n'roll.
Phrases
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY
  • Many people think Wall Street is the embodiment of greed.
  • Besides, this mild-appearing young man was the embodiment of every quality he admired.
  • Certainly Lady Lisa might stand as the embodiment of the old fancy, the symbol of the modern idea.
  • It is that of the embodiment of evil, of pathological hatred and unreason.
  • Mrs Thatcher appeared to see herself as the embodiment of revenge upon a whole generation of social engineers.
  • On the contrary: I took great delight in my thinness and saw it as the embodiment of my strength and virtue.
  • She is the embodiment of the divine cosmic power of destruction.
  • Team members arrive with a policy which, in their eyes, is the embodiment of that approach.
  • When Colangelo arrived, the embodiment of all that was Arizonan was Sen.
the embodiment of something someone or something that represents or is very typical of an idea or quality SYN  epitome:  He is the embodiment of evil.
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