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An embodiment is a person or a thing that is so full of a quality that they almost are that quality in real form. We say the embodiment of kindness, the embodiment of calm, the embodiment of a new style. It is not a tool or a body part; it is the idea made visible. People use this in writing, speeches, and careful talk. Though actually it praises or points more than it measures: calling someone “the embodiment of patience” is a strong, slightly grand way to say they show that quality more clearly than anyone around them. The verb behind it is — to give an idea a body.
化身；⋯的具體展現
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
embodimentnoun
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The process of embodying.
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A physical entity typifying an abstract concept.
- You are the very embodiment of beauty.
- The law is the true embodiment / Of everything that's excellent. / It has no kind of fault or flaw, / And I, my Lords, embody the law.
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human-sciencessciencessocial-scienceThe ways that knowledge, personality, culture, etc. are modulated by being experienced through a physical body.
- In many respects, the genre [science fiction] was exceptionally well suited to extrapolate from contemporary social concerns and promote visions of alternative societies, new forms of embodiment, and novel pathways for desire and pleasure.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。