Elevating, in this use, means that something lifts your mind: it makes you care about serious, intelligent, or moral things, as if you were being raised above everyday chatter. An elevating book, an elevating speech, elevating company.

Elevating, in this use, means that something lifts your mindElevating 在這個用法裡，意思是某樣東西提升了你的心智：it makes you care about serious, intelligent, or moral things讓你開始關心嚴肅、有智慧，或有道德意義的事，as if you were being raised above everyday chatter就好像你被拉高到日常閒聊之上一樣。An elevating book, an elevating speech, elevating companyan elevating book（陶冶性情的書）、an elevating speech（提升思想的演講）、elevating company（讓人成長的同伴）。

It can sound a little old-fashioned or preachy, and people often use it with a small smile, as a joke — “How elevating” — when the talk was actually silly or rude, meaning the opposite.

It can sound a little old-fashioned or preachy它聽起來可能有點老派或說教，and people often use it with a small smile, as a joke人們常常帶著一點微笑、開玩笑地用它——"How elevating"「How elevating」——when the talk was actually silly or rude用在其實話題很無聊或很粗魯的時候，meaning the opposite意思剛好相反。

The picture comes from elevate, “to lift up”: here it is your thoughts that are lifted, not your body. You will meet it in reviews and in slightly posh or humorous talk, not on a lift’s buttons.

The picture comes from elevate, "to lift up"這個畫面來自 elevate，「舉起、抬高」：here it is your thoughts that are lifted, not your body這裡被抬高的是你的思想，不是你的身體。You will meet it in reviews and in slightly posh or humorous talk你會在書評、稍微高雅或帶點幽默的談話裡遇到它，not on a lift's buttons而不是在電梯的按鈕上。

If someone is elevating the discussion, they are steering it toward bigger ideas. Though actually, the same -ing form can just be the ordinary verb (“they are elevating the box”), but that physical sense is not this one.

If someone is elevating the discussion如果有人「is elevating the discussion」，they are steering it toward bigger ideas他們是在把討論導向更大的議題。Though actually不過其實，the same -ing form can just be the ordinary verb同樣的 -ing 形式也可以只是普通動詞的用法 ("they are elevating the box")（像是「they are elevating the box」），but that physical sense is not this one但那個實體的意思不是這裡講的這個。