popularize

英 [ˈpɒpjələraɪz]

美 [ˈpɑːpjələraɪz]

v.  宣传; 宣扬; 推广; 使通俗化; 使普及

过去式：popularized　过去分词：popularized　现在分词：popularizing　第三人称单数：popularizes　

IELTS

Collins.1 / BNC.23345 / COCA.13414

牛津词典

verb

• 宣传；宣扬；推广
  to make a lot of people know about sth and enjoy it
  1. The programme did much to popularize little-known writers.
     这个节目大力宣扬不太知名的作家。
• 使通俗化；使普及
  to make a difficult subject easier to understand for ordinary people
  1. He spent his life popularizing natural history.
     他毕生致力于普及博物学。

柯林斯词典

in BRIT, also use 英国英语亦用 popularise


• VERB 使受喜爱；使受欢迎
  Topopularizesomething means to make a lot of people interested in it and able to enjoy it.
  1. Irving Brokaw popularized figure skating in the US.
     欧文·布罗考在美国引发了花样滑冰热潮。
• VERB 使通俗；普及；推广
  Topopularizean academic subject or scientific idea means to make it more easy to understand for ordinary people.
  1. It was Aristotle who proved the world is round. Plato popularized the concept.
     亚里士多德证明了地球是圆的，柏拉图普及了这一概念。

英英释义

verb

• make understandable to the general public
  1. Carl Sagan popularized cosmology in his books
  Synonym:popularise
• cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public
  1. They popularized coffee in Washington State
  2. Relativity Theory was vulgarized by these authors
  Synonym:popularisevulgarizevulgarisegeneralizegeneralise

双语例句

• To popularize and intensify the national defense education is the common responsibility of the whole society.
  普及和加强国防教育是全社会的共同责任。
• We have discussed sum for subspace of vector space, and cannot popularize sum of subspace to infinitude.
  对向量空间的子空间的和的概念不能推广到无限多个子空间的情形进行了讨论。
• It is out duty to popularize folk music in music education among middle school students.
  在音乐教学中大力弘扬民族音乐，让民族音乐走进学生心中，这是我们义不容辞的义务。
• Popularize high-accuracy field leveling techniques, encourage the use of laser field leveling.
  推广高精度平整土地技术，鼓励使用激光平整土地；
• And to popularize Go culture is of great significance in building a harmonious society today.
  今天普及围棋文化对于构建和谐社会具有重要意义。
• Making content freely available would help to popularize journals, and would encourage them to develop an online presence.
  免费提供杂志内容将有助于杂志的推广，而且将鼓励杂志社发展成在线办公的状态。
• Lancaster wrote many manuals in his efforts to popularize the methods.
  兰卡斯特精心撰写了许多手册，希望推广这种模式。
• It was Aristotle who proved the world is round. Plato popularized the concept.
  亚里士多德证明了地球是圆的，柏拉图普及了这一概念。
• The Ruby and JavaScript languages have helped to popularize the idea of open classes in object-oriented programming.
  Ruby和JavaScript语言有助于在面向对象的编程中普及开放式类的理念。
• It is imperative to popularize task teaching in English teaching in colleges and universities for training practical English talents.
  为了培养英语应用型人才，在高校英语教学中推广任务教学法势在必行。