personification

英 [pəˌsɒnɪfɪˈkeɪʃn]

美 [pərˌsɑːnɪfɪˈkeɪʃn]

n.  体现某品质或特点的人; 化身; 典型; 拟人; 人格化; 拟人化的东西(或品质等)

复数：personifications　

GRE

BNC.20253 / COCA.17240

牛津词典

noun

• 体现某品质或特点的人；化身；典型
  a person who has a lot of a particular quality or characteristic
  1. She was the personification of elegance.
     她是典雅的化身。
• 拟人；人格化；拟人化的东西（或品质等）
  the practice of representing objects, qualities, etc. as humans, in art and literature; an object, quality, etc. that is represented in this way
  1. the personification of autumn in Keats's poem
     济慈诗歌中对秋天的拟人化

柯林斯词典

• N-SING 体现某种品质（或特点）的人；典型；化身
  If you say that someone isthe personification ofa particular thing or quality, you mean that they are a perfect example of that thing or that they have a lot of that quality.
  1. Janis Joplin was the personification of the '60s female rock singer...
     贾尼斯·乔普林是20世纪60年代摇滚女歌手的代表。
  2. He was usually the personification of kindness.
     他通常都很和善。
• N-VAR 拟人化；象征
  Apersonification ofsomething abstract is its representation in the form of a person.
  1. ...personifications of the attributes of Justice, Prudence and Truth.
     正义、审慎和真理的化身

英英释义

noun

• the act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc.
  Synonym:incarnation
• representing an abstract quality or idea as a person or creature
  Synonym:prosopopoeia
• a person who represents an abstract quality
  1. she is the personification of optimism

双语例句

• As the personification of youth and beauty;
  他是年轻英俊的化身；
• In this paper, a personification algorithm for solving the Traveling Salesman Problem ( TSP) is proposed, which is based on original greedy algorithm.
  基于贪心算法提出了一种改进的求解旅行商问题（TSP）的拟人算法。
• Janis Joplin was the personification of the '60s female rock singer
  贾尼斯·乔普林是20世纪60年代摇滚女歌手的代表。
• Those rhetorical devices used in advertisements of enterprises such as trope or transferring meaning, personification, pun and allusion, repetition and parallelism, rhyme, especially alliteration and rhythm offer enjoyment in aesthetics.
  企业广告中运用比喻、拟人、双关和成语典故、反复和平行结构、押韵和节奏等修辞手段，给人以美的享受。
• And we tend to think of the president as the personification of the nation he leads.
  而且我们趋向于认为总统是国家的代表。
• Is criticism of Steve Jobs whose personification of the brand is a conscious choice by Apple unfair?
  对乔布斯他成为苹果品牌的化身，乃是苹果有意为之的批评是否有失公平？
• They represented the anger and bitterness of youth struggling for freedom against authority, and for this reason they were regarded by some people as the personification of the permissive society.
  这些歌词表达了为争取自由，与传统权威进行斗争的广大青年的愤怒和怨恨。因此，有些人认为他们是“放任社会”的化身。
• He was usually the personification of kindness.
  他通常都很和善。
• She's the personification of culture and refinement.
  她是文化和教养的化身。
• ( New Testament) a personification of wealth and avarice as an evil spirit.
  （新约）作为罪恶根源的财富的人格化。