edifying

英 [ˈedɪfaɪɪŋ]

美 [ˈedɪfaɪɪŋ]

adj.  启迪的; 有启发意义的; 起教化作用的
v.  教化; 启迪; 教诲
edify的现在分词

现在分词：edifying　

BNC.37702 / COCA.35811

牛津词典

adj.

• 启迪的；有启发意义的；起教化作用的
  likely to improve your mind or your character

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 教导的;启迪的;起教化作用的
  If you describe something asedifying, you mean that it benefits you in some way, for example by teaching you about something.
  1. In the 18th century art was seen, along with music and poetry, as something edifying.
     在18世纪，人们认为美术和音乐、诗歌一样，能够起到教化作用。
• ADJ-GRADED (通常用于否定句)令人愉快的,可以接受的
  You say that something is not veryedifyingwhen you want to express your disapproval or dislike of it, or to suggest that there is something unpleasant or unacceptable about it.
  1. It all brought back memories of a not very edifying past.
     所有这些都让人回想起一段并不那么愉快的过去。

英英释义

adj

• enlightening or uplifting so as to encourage intellectual or moral improvement
  1. the paintings in the church served an edifying purpose even for those who could not read
  Synonym:enlightening

双语例句

• Later, the goldsmith Benvenuto Cellini boasted to anyone who would listen of his miraculous aim. When she made remarks to this edifying effect, she had a firm little frown on her brow.
  后来，金匠本凡努托&8226；切里尼逢人便吹嘘他枪法神准。每逢她谈到这些发人深省的话，眉头便不由得皱了起来。
• Even so ye, forasmuch as ye are zealous of spiritual gifts, seek that ye may excel to the edifying of the church.
  们也是如此。既是切慕属灵的恩赐，就当求多得造就教会的恩赐。
• Secondly, the purpose of aesthetic education, harmonizing sensibilities, edifying will and advancing the ability of aesthetic;
  美育的目的：调和情感、陶冶意志、提高审美能力；
• Secondly, edifying their ideological and moral sensibility to enhance their ability of moral activity is the important one.
  陶冶其思想道德情感，增强道德行为选择能力是提高高校教师思想道德素质的重要途径；
• Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith: so do.
  也不可听从荒渺无凭的话语，和无穷的家谱。这等事只生辩论，并不发明神在信上所立的章程。
• I was wondering, if you would entertain it kindly if I were to give you from the mission stories, several books of edifying nature?
  要是我从传教团的书籍里找几本比较正经、比较有效益的书给你，不知你是否乐于接受？
• The edifying of sentiment is very important to college students.
  情操陶冶对大学生而言极为重要。
• It holds the three element of aesthetic education are the education of aesthetic knowledge, the cultivating of feeling of aesthetic form and the edifying of aesthetic feeling.
  构成审美教育的内容与形式的三要素是审美知识的教育、审美形式感的培养与审美情感的陶冶。
• The explicit pursuit of purpose-in-life is, as the Buddha taught, not edifying: it is best to immerse oneself into the river of life and let the question drift away.
  正像佛教所说的，直接追寻生命的意义是无益的：最好的办法是让自己浸入生命之河中，让这个问题自己漂走。
• The "Sutra of the Buddha of Limitless Lifespan" identifies Guan Yin Bodhisattva and Great Strength Bodhisattva as Amita Buddha's assistants in edifying all beings.
  《观无量寿经》提到观世音菩萨和大势至菩萨是阿弥陀佛的两大脇侍菩萨。