popularize

英 ['pɒpjələraɪz] 美 ['pɑːpjələraɪz]

• vt. 普及；使流行；使通俗化

详尽释义

v. 动词

1. （使）通俗化
2. 推广
3. （使）普及
4. 使流行
5. 使大众化
6. 使受欢迎
7. 宣传
8. 宣扬
9. 使有名望
10. 使易懂
11. 使平易
12. 使得人心

英英释义

Verb:

1. cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use;

   "They popularized coffee in Washington State"
   "Relativity Theory was vulgarized by these authors"
   

2. make understandable to the general public;

   "Carl Sagan popularized cosmology in his books"
   

例句

用作及物动词 (vt.)

1. We should popularize science on a grand scale.
   我们应该大规模普及科学。
2. The series of books gained applause. We decided to popularize the method.
   这套书出版以来，在市场上反应良好，我们决定推广这种学习方法。
3. The company is trying to popularize its new products.
   公司努力推广新产品。
4. The programme did much to popularize little-known writers.
   这个节目大力宣扬不太知名的作家。
5. I have tried to popularize rather than vulgarize the subject.
   我试着使主题通俗化,而不是庸俗化。

经典引文

• He possesses..the power of seizing upon and popularizing the finer parts of his subject.

  出自：Tait's Edinburgh Magazine

• Paul Ecke..who popularized poinsettias as a living symbol of Christmas.

  出自：Time

近反义词

【近义词】

• vulgarize 使通俗化
• promote 促进
• spread 传播
• propagate 繁殖
• commercialize 使商业化
• disseminate 散播
• simplify 简化
• interpret 口译
• explain 说明
• gloss 光彩
• universalize 一般化
• popularise 使大众化
• generalise 使一般化
• generalize 概括
• vulgarise <主英> = vulg...