Edify

(v. i.) To build; to construct.

(v. i.) To instruct and improve, especially in moral and religious knowledge; to teach.

(v. i.) To teach or persuade.

(v. i.) To improve.

康拉德编辑

• You know I'm such a graceless dog that these religious aspects of such subjects don't edify me much. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Mother, you have found your match, pronounced little Jessie, whom the scene appeared greatly to edify. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• It was very edifying, baby. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• Second, that he had forgiven everybody else, and had made a most edifying end. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Mrs. Bute certainly thought herself one of the most virtuous women in England, and the sight of her happy family was an edifying one to strangers. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• There are a perfect host of Clarksons and Wilberforces* risen up among us on that subject, most edifying to hear and behold. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• On this question there arose the edifying brow-beating, customary on such points. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Among the sights of Europe, that of Rome has ever been held one of the most striking and in some respects edifying. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• It is quite edifying to hear women speculate upon the worthlessness and the duration of beauty. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• In consequence of Mrs. Snagsby looking deeply edified, Mr. Snagsby thinks it expedient on the whole to say amen, which is well received. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• And this was more terrific to her husband (as perhaps she knew) than any flow of eloquence with which she could have edified the company. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Nor were the two last-named gentlemen as much edified as they might have been by the moving passages narrated. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• She was edified at the complete though abrupt diversion of his homage from herself to the heiress. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.

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