| 词汇 | romanticize |
| 释义 | romanticize verb[ I ] (UK usuallyromanticise)uk /rəʊˈmæn.tɪ.saɪz//rəˈmæn.tɪ.saɪz/ us /roʊˈmæn.t̬ə.saɪz/ to talk about something in a way that makes it sound better than it really is, or to believe that something is better than it really is: 以浪漫方式说话;使浪漫化;使理想化 Stop romanticizing! Nothing's that perfect.别再那么理想化了！哪有那么完美的事。 Exaggerating & playing down bloviate blow something out of proportionidiom cartoonish cartoonishly catastrophize fulsome go overboardidiom grandiloquent inflated make a mountain out of a molehillidiom make little of somethingidiom make much of somethingidiom make something of something/someone meal mildly minimization OTT protest too muchidiom underplay underrate romanticize | American Dictionaryromanticize verb[ T ] us/roʊˈmæn·təˌsɑɪz/ to believe that something is better, more interesting, or more exciting than it really is: He romanticized the life of a spy, not knowing how boring and lonely it can be. Examples of romanticizeromanticize One should be cautious not to romanticize poor and nonindustrial people as earth friendly and ecologically responsible. For those who romanticize trains, only firstclass passengers travelled in comfort. Instead of mysterious caves, dragons, and romanticized heroes, fantastic factory floors, gigantic machines, and larger than life machinists confront the audience. Their image, for the most part, is not heroic, glamourized or romanticized. We should not empower the sentimental patient by romanticizing patient - physician relationships. This said, it is important to caution against romanticizing communitarian arrangements over the use of the local commons. The older family was authoritarian, disciplinarian and pain-inflicting enough for us not to romanticize or valorise it. Situated approaches to literacy have been accused of "relativism" and of "romanticizing" the local context. They thus question those values that have become mythologized and romanticized by the present culture. They are romanticized in folk songs, but they make poor real estate investments. Only as his body falls lifeless is his music exalted to a comparably romanticized spiritual dimension. None of these declarations, highly romanticizing in their effect, is subjected to the kind of critical scrutiny that is strenuously advocated elsewhere in the book, with damaging consequences. Downtown, that once golden democratic space romanticized by journalists, novelists and often-as-not scholars, is always in decline, always leaving behind a sense of communal loss. In certain ways, modern and contemporary critics romanticize "race" in nineteenth-century novels: quite aware of its historical occurrence, they loathe to face - or to explicate - its literary signs and representation. Clark's highly emotionally charged departure was romanticized, recounted to their juniors and published by the students. 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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