| 单词 | sophisticate |
| 释义 | sophisticate (once / 772 pages) nv To sophisticate is to make someone or something less innocent. A sophisticate is also a worldly, cultured person. The root soph in sophisticate has to do with knowledge, and if a person gets sophisticated, they learn new things, especially about the social world. Parents sophisticate their children by teaching them table manners. Going to college sophisticates many people by exposing them to new ideas and other cultures. After becoming sophisticated, people are less natural and innocent, but more cultured. A sophisticate is also a worldly person. Sophisticates do things like go to the opera and drink fine wine. WORD FAMILYsophisticate: sophisticated, sophisticates, sophisticating, sophistication+/sophisticated: sophisticatedly, unsophisticated/sophistication: sophistications USAGE EXAMPLESThe Communists coveted the far more sophisticated American weapons. New York Times(Jan 01, 2017) But none of those sophisticated earthbound films were able to attract anything close to the turnout for the top-performing weekend offerings. New York Times(Jan 01, 2017) Students used a sophisticated meter provided by the Hubbard Foundation to do the work. Washington Times(Jan 01, 2017) 1n a worldly-wise person Syn|Hypo|Hyper man of the world cosmopolitan, cosmopolite a sophisticated person who has travelled in many countries slickera person with good manners and stylish clothing city boy, city slickera city dweller with sophisticated manners and clothing globetrotter, world travelersomeone who travels widely and often adult, grownup a fully developed person from maturity onward 2v make less natural or innocent Their manners had sophisticated the young girls Hyper civilise, civilize, cultivate, educate, school, train teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment 3v alter and make impure, as with the intention to deceive Sophisticate rose water with geraniol Syn|Hyper doctor, doctor up adulterate, debase, dilute, load, stretch corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones 4v make more complex or refined a sophisticated design Hyper complicate, elaborate, rarify, refine make more complex, intricate, or richer 5v practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive Syn|Hyper convolute, pervert, twist, twist around denote, refer have as a meaning |
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