舉出例子把意思照亮
最貼近核心畫面的一組：擺一個具體的東西在旁邊，讓抽象的意思看得見。
make clear with an example · verb · B2
To make an idea or a meaning easier to understand by giving an example, or by showing a picture, a diagram, or a story that makes it clear.
舉例說明
核心畫面
You can picture switching on a light over something that was hard to see: the idea itself does not change, but now there is a picture — or an example — next to it, and you can finally make it out.
把燈打到一個原本看不清楚的東西上。話已經講了，可是對方還是一片模糊；於是你在旁邊擺一個東西——一個例子、一張圖、一段…更多收起
把燈打到一個原本看不清楚的東西上。話已經講了，可是對方還是一片模糊；於是你在旁邊擺一個東西——一個例子、一張圖、一段小故事——他順著那個東西看過去，突然就懂了。這個字的力氣全在「旁邊擺的那個東西」：illustrate 從來不是重新解釋，而是給出一個看得見的具體物，讓抽象的那一邊被照亮。所以它可以是說話時舉例，可以是數字本身就把事實攤開來，也可以是真的在書裡畫圖。Two branches
在書裡真的畫圖
還是「用具體的東西照亮文字」，只是這裡的那個東西是真的圖片，不是比喻的例子。
add pictures to a text · verb · B1
To draw or add pictures, photos, maps, or diagrams to a book, an article, or another piece of writing.
為…畫插圖
原始詞典資料4 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。
illustrateverb/ˈɪl.jʊˌstɹeɪt/
- 1
To clarify something by giving, or serving as, an example or a comparison.
- We illustrate our definitions by including quotations or simple examples.
- To prove him, and illustrate his high worth.
- 2
To provide a book or other publication with pictures, diagrams or other explanatory or decorative features.
- The economics textbook was illustrated with many graphs.
- Michael Thompson said he had been photographing prison buildings on Wednesday, Dec. 3, to illustrate an article by Tom Reeves […] when an unidentified plainclothes employee of the prison approached him.
- 3
obsoleteTo shed light upon.
- Here, when the morn illustrates all the sky.
- 4
obsoleteTo give renown or honour to; to make illustrious.
- Matter to me of glory, whom their hate / Illustrates.
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。