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

• He said there are many young designers and local fashion companies that want to popularize it again.
  他说有许多年轻的设计师和当地的时尚公司想使中山装重新流行起来。
• 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 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。
• In order to popularize scientific knowledge, I attempt to reestablish Newton's work in high school geometry.
  所以本文企图用常见的几何论证，来重建牛顿在这一方面的工作，以求科学知识普及化。
• 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。
• We should popularize our tourism abroad.
  我们要向国外发展旅游业。
• Apple has a unique opportunity to popularize mobile payments as it has popularized mobile Web access and touch-screen technology.
  苹果公司占据了一个普及移动支付的先机，正如同它普及移动网络接入和触摸屏技术一样。
• 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。
• 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。
• The difficulty of dressing superhard wheel is one of the main obstruction to popularize application in industry.
  超硬砂轮修整的困难，是生产上推广应用的主要障碍之一。