edify
vt. 开导,启发
1. make understand;
They tried to edify the child with music.
他们试图用音乐陶冶这孩子.
TV should attempt to edify the masses.
电视应该试着去启迪大众.
Tea is fitness, disease , and the treatment, rich appreciation taste edify sentiment.
茶有健身 、 治疾之药物疗效, 又富欣赏情趣,可陶冶情操.
The purpose is to widen train thought, edify somewhat to the reader.
目的是拓宽思路, 对读者有所启迪.
In his book the function of television was to edify, not to entertain.
按照他的看法,电视的职能在于教育, 而不在于娱乐.