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单词 illuminate
释义
illuminate
verb[T]
formal
uk
/ɪˈluː.mɪ.neɪt/us
/ɪˈluː.mə.neɪt/
tolightsomething and make itbrighter:
为…照明，照亮
Thestreetswere illuminated withstringsofcolouredlights.街道被一串串彩灯照亮了。
toexplainand show moreclearlysomething that isdifficulttounderstand:
阐明，解释
anarticlewhich illuminates theissuesatstake对一些紧要的问题进行阐述的文章
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Giving out light
  • afire
  • albedo
  • beam
  • bioluminescence
  • brighten
  • burnished
  • candlelit
  • flicker
  • gleam
  • glimmer
  • glitter
  • noctilucent
  • non-glare
  • non-luminous
  • out-glitter
  • pearlescence
  • reflected ray
  • shine
  • spotlight
  • wink
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Defining & explaining
(Definition ofilluminatefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

illuminate| American Dictionary

illuminate
verb[T]
us
/ɪˈlu·məˌneɪt/
to putlightin or on something:
Thebuildingswere illuminated atnight.
If you illuminate asubject, youexplainit:
Thisarticleilluminates thebasicprinciplesofeconomics.
(Definition ofilluminatefrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofilluminate

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One chapter illuminates the colonial era, eight the nineteenth century, and four the twentieth century.
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Rather than illuminating a deeply entrenched metaphysical voice, she focuses on musical enactments of the body's motions.
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The history of truck legislation is illuminating for two reasons.
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Can either be much illuminated by so odd a tactic118?
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On its own right, this expression is not very illuminating.
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In this respect the book illuminates the ways in which indigenous people and the state continually negotiate and renegotiate their relationship in particular contexts.
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Again, the analogy with legal theory is illuminating.
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What we require, therefore, is a tradition of welfare research which illuminates second order agency as well as first.
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An explicit emphasis on the treatment of children therefore illuminates features of welfare states that have remained invisible in 'adult-centred' studies.
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If the target level is attained, the lamp is turned off, and otherwise the lamp is illuminated.
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Much of the article is illuminated by insights drawn from a lifetime's work in the arts and sciences.
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Observation of proton rear emission and possible gigagauss scale magnetic fields from ultra-intense laser illuminated plastic target.
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The paper illuminates issues of language restoration and the links between identity and language preservation.
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The paper illuminates teachers' understanding of play, approaches used, difficulties faced, and their power in finding solutions.
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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.
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