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

• 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。
• Of course it need the process and the step to popularize anyone products and in the popularization there will be a lot of difficulty.
  当然，任何新产品的推广和普及要经历一个过程和阶段，而且在推广过程中会面临许多难题和阻力。
• That original study helped popularize such group therapy, but subsequent research produced mixed results.
  最初的研究有力的推广了这种群体疗法，但是后继的研究产生了复杂的结果。
• 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。
• 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。
• To develop such empathy, many universities in China have organized campus events to popularize knowledge about mental health.
  为了发挥这种移情作用，很多中国大学也组织了一系列校园活动来普及心理健康知识。
• Due to high requirement of personnel ability, it is difficult to popularize frequency response method on fields.
  频响法对测试人员的专业技术水平要求高，不利于现场普及。
• 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 the Olympic knowledge and disseminate the Olympic ideas through various forms.
  通过多种形式普及奥林匹克知识，传播奥林匹克理念。
• To popularize the European Credit Transfer System was an important action for constructing the common European higher education system.
  实行欧洲学分转换系统是欧洲高等教育空间一体化建设的重要举措。