sophisticate

英 [sə'fɪstɪkeɪt] 美 [sə'fɪstɪkeɪt]

• n. 久经世故的人
• vt. 玩弄诡辩；掺合；弄复杂

详尽释义

n. 名词

1. 久经世故的人，老于世故的人，世故深的人，老油条
2. 精通者，见多识广的人，见过世面的人
3. 矫饰者

adj. 形容词

1. 世故的

v. 动词

1. 使复杂，弄复杂
2. 使懂世故，使变得世故，使失去天真纯朴
3. 擅自更改，伪造，篡改，窜改
4. 强词夺理，牵强附会，曲解
5. 用诡辩欺骗，玩弄诡辩，使迷惑
6. 把杂物掺入降低品质，掺杂，掺低，掺坏，掺合，搀假，搀杂
7. 使（人）懂事
8. 使堕落，使腐化
9. 使精致

英英释义

Noun:

1. a worldly-wise person

Verb:

1. make less natural or innocent;

   "Their manners had sophisticated the young girls"
   

2. practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive;

   "Don't twist my words"
   

3. alter and make impure, as with the intention to deceive;

   "Sophisticate rose water with geraniol"
   

4. make more complex or refined;

   "a sophisticated design"
   

例句

用作名词 (n.)

1. He's not a sophisticate and doesn't spend his discretionary time with sophisticates.
   他不是老于世故的人，不会随便花时间和那些世故的人相处。
2. The sophisticates in the office drink lemon tea, we have coffee.
   办公室里那些不同凡俗的人喝的是柠檬茶。

用作及物动词 (vt.)

1. If you are wrong, admit it rather than sophisticate.
   错了就要承认，不要强词夺理。
2. He sophisticated a meaning beyond recognition
   他将意思曲解得无法理解。

经典引文

• It was not exactly a fashionable..event but still drew the important mob of Broadway sophisticates.sssss Clive James

  出自： ssssF. Astaire

• They spoke out their thoughts with a rude freedom which..proved that they had not been sophisticated into prigs.

  出自： L. Carr

近反义词

【近义词】

• civilize 使开化
• socialite 社会名流
• trendsetter 开创者
• connoisseur 鉴识家
• aesthete 审美家
• trendy <口>流行的
• cognoscenti 名词cognoscent...
• educate 教育
• school 学校
• mould 形状
• mold 模式
• acculturate 因文化传入而变化...
• tutor 家庭教师
• doctor 博士
• twist 缠绕
• doctor up 搀假
• convolute 盘旋
• man of the world 饱经世故者
• pervert 误用