| 词汇 | illuminate |
| 释义 | illuminate verb[ T ] formaluk /ɪˈluː.mɪ.neɪt/ us /ɪˈluː.mə.neɪt/ to light something and make it brighter: 为…照明，照亮 The streets were illuminated with strings of coloured lights.街道被一串串彩灯照亮了。 full of light so you can see lightI'll wait until it's light outside before I go for a jog. brightIt was quite bright in the examination room. sunnyThe baby's nursery was bright and sunny. sunlitThe house boasts a sunlit parlour with floor-to-ceiling windows. sun-drenchedThey spent a week on the sun-drenched beaches of Bali. to explain and show more clearly something that is difficult to understand: 阐明，解释 an article which illuminates the issues at stake对一些紧要的问题进行阐述的文章 Giving out light afire albedo aura backlit beam beamy bioluminescence gleam glimmer glitter luminescent luminously noctilucent non-glare non-luminous out-glitter reflected ray shine spotlight wink You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Defining & explaining illuminate | American Dictionaryilluminate verb[ T ] us/ɪˈlu·məˌneɪt/ to put light in or on something: The buildings were illuminated at night. If you illuminate a subject, you explain it: This article illuminates the basic principles of economics. Examples of illuminateilluminate One chapter illuminates the colonial era, eight the nineteenth century, and four the twentieth century. Rather than illuminating a deeply entrenched metaphysical voice, she focuses on musical enactments of the body's motions. The history of truck legislation is illuminating for two reasons. Can either be much illuminated by so odd a tactic118? On its own right, this expression is not very illuminating. In this respect the book illuminates the ways in which indigenous people and the state continually negotiate and renegotiate their relationship in particular contexts. Again, the analogy with legal theory is illuminating. What we require, therefore, is a tradition of welfare research which illuminates second order agency as well as first. An explicit emphasis on the treatment of children therefore illuminates features of welfare states that have remained invisible in 'adult-centred' studies. If the target level is attained, the lamp is turned off, and otherwise the lamp is illuminated. Much of the article is illuminated by insights drawn from a lifetime's work in the arts and sciences. Observation of proton rear emission and possible gigagauss scale magnetic fields from ultra-intense laser illuminated plastic target. The paper illuminates issues of language restoration and the links between identity and language preservation. The paper illuminates teachers' understanding of play, approaches used, difficulties faced, and their power in finding solutions. Approaches to musical 'topics' or archetypes demonstrate how specific and potentially illuminating intertextual relationships between musical materials and other modes of cultural representation can be. See all examples of illuminate These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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