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

• 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 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• We have main advantages to produce and popularize cartoon, animation products, and to develop and extend the peripheral industry of cartoon.
  具有动画、画产品的制作和推广、漫周边产业的开发和延伸的主营优势。
• 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。
• Therefore, Cydonia oblonga Mill has highly value to popularize in North China.
  因此，在我国北方，榅桲具有很高的推广价值。
• Popularize common materials for mature ditch anti-seepage projects such as concrete, bituminous concrete and plastic film.
  推广使用混凝土和沥青混凝土、塑料薄膜等成熟的渠道防渗工程常用材料；
• We should popularize our tourism abroad.
  我们要向国外发展旅游业。
• To build eco-civilization, we must popularize ecological knowledge, set up ecological value, carry out a "revolution of conscience", and abandon materialism, economism and consumerism.
  为建设生态文明，必须普及生态学知识，树立生态价值观，实现“良心的革命”，摒弃物质主义、经济主义和消费主义价值观。