喜樂美語
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    To epitomize something is to be a very typical example of it — to show, in one person or one thing, what that idea is like. A film can epitomize a decade; a habit can epitomize a whole way of working. It is a little formal, more at home in essays and reviews than in chat. American spelling uses -ize; British writers often use epitomise. Same word. Though actually, older academic English also used it to mean “make a short summary of,” because an epitome was once an abridged book. That sense is rare now. For , the living meaning is “to be the typical example.”

    是……的典型；體現

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    這一義的完整解析還沒打開。訂閱後可以看到例句怎麼拆、常跟哪些字一起出現， 以及容易跟它搞混的字。

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組成epitome + -ize (“to make / to be”). The noun’s Greek pieces are epi- “upon” + temnein “to cut.”

同家族的字

  • epitomethe noun this verb is built from

原始詞典資料2 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。

epitomizeverb/əˈpɪt.əˌmaɪz/

  • 1

    To make an epitome of; to shorten; to condense.

    • This simple formula epitomizes the kind of 'tolerance' that Marcuse advocates.
  • 2

    To be an epitome of.

    • The framework of Combinatory Categorial Grammar epitomizes the rule-based generalized categorial architecture.

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。