| 单词 | edify |
| 例句 | edify verb formal •students who have no desire to be edified should leave my classroom and take up thumb-twiddling:educate, instruct, teach, school, tutor, train, guide | enlighten, inform, cultivate, develop, improve, better.WORD NOTE edifying Though, strictly speaking, it still means instructive, one hardly hears this word (or, for that matter, edify and edification) used anymore without a slightly ironic edge. •The listeners were subjected to an edifying speech about the lecturer's accomplishments. Her discourse on table manners was intended for our edification. Perhaps it's because the slightly old-fashioned diction evokes an era in which writers and speakers commonly felt the urge or obligation to raise the moral, spiritual, and intellectual level of their audiences, and because we have grown impatient with, or cynical about, the wish to improve us in that way. Improving, a word of which I'm also fond, has a similar connotation, possibly more ironic. •The novel contained many improving moral lessons. — FPConversational, opinionated, and idiomatic, these Word Notes are an opportunity to see a working writer's perspective on a particular word or usage. |
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