dignify如何读

英:[ˈdɪɡnɪfaɪ]

美:[ˈdɪɡnɪfaɪ]

dignify是什么意思

  • vt.使高贵;使增辉;抬高…的身价;将…美其名为

dignify自然拼读

dig·ni·fy

dIg nih faI

dignify变形

第三人称单数:dignifies

现在分词:dignifying

过去式:dignified

过去分词:dignified

dignify英英释义

Verb

1. confer dignity or honor upon;

"He was dignified with a title"

2. raise the status of;

"I shall not dignify this insensitive remark with an answer"

dignify词源中文解释

15世纪初, dignifien,"赋予荣誉或尊严,提升地位或职位",同时也指"认为合适",源自古法语 dignefiier,来自中世纪拉丁语 dignificare "使有价值",源自拉丁语 dignus "有价值的,适当的"(源自 PIE 词根 *dek- "接受,接纳")+ -ficare, facere 的组合形式,意为"制造,做"(源自 PIE 词根 *dhe- "放置,放置")。从15世纪中叶开始,意为"赋予荣誉,使成名,使显赫"。相关词汇: Dignified; dignifying。

dignify词源英文解释

Middle English dignifien, from Middle French dignifier, from Late Latin dignificare, from Latin dignus worthy — more at decent

The first known use of dignify was in the 15th century

dignify儿童词典英英释义

dignifyverb

to give dignity or importance to : honor

dignify 例句

1 I found her dignified ritual riveting, but when the spell was broken I realized that I needed to get going myself.

2 In a dignified way the Poppers and the penguins walked out on the stage, and Mrs. Popper sat down at the piano.

3 She knew that she was mouthing words; and she realized suddenly that her mother scorned to dignify these words with her attention.

4 Ron ignored this jibe, sipping his drink in what he evidently considered to be a dignified silence.

5 There would be a funeral in the village at which Briony’s dignified reticence would hint at the vastness of her sorrow.

6 So far, the bill dignifies vertebrates, decapod crustaceans (crabs and lobsters), and cephalopods (squids and octopuses), but not a single conscious bee.

7 I now have a reputation as both a dignified enigma and a genius, but I don’t want people reading Lolita because I wrote it.

8 You’d think they would use the wagon again, something a little more dignified than this.

9 Still, she had a regal air, sitting straight and dignified in her gilded chair as if she really were a queen.

10 I put it on and did my best to look dignified.

11 Slow- moving and dignified, it defined the city, marking the boundary between worlds.

12 You won't dignify the house just by painting it.

仅仅通过粉刷房子不会给房子增添光彩。

13 It could never be that when there wasn't anything that you could dignify with the name of programme.

在没有任何可以用来标榜功绩的规划实施并获得成效以前,他们都无法得到认可。

14 I'm not going to dignify his comments by reacting to them.

我才不会理睬他的评论以抬高其身价呢。

15 Just recalling the indignities he had met as a black man seemed to expose some raw nerve in this highly educated, dignified official.

16 The trees that were shedding the last of their leaves stood bare but dignified among the loyal green of the pines.

17 Wade brought her distress over the situation to her therapist, got off social media and refused to dignify the rumors.

18 The dignified French museum was about to be reduced to the status of a laughingstock.

19 And Amy, the dignified, tumbled over a stool, and never stopping to get up, hugged and cried over her father’s boots in the most touching manner.

20 They prided themselves on being incomparably more “cultured,” “cultivated,” “dignified,” and better off than their black brethren down in the ghetto, which was no further away than you could throw a rock.

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