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。
• 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。
• 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 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。