popularize

英 [ˈpɒpjələraɪz]

美 [ˈpɑːpjələraɪz]

v.  宣传; 宣扬; 推广; 使通俗化; 使普及

过去式：popularized　过去分词：popularized　现在分词：popularizing　第三人称单数：popularizes　

IELTS

Collins.1 / BNC.23345 / COCA.13414

牛津词典

verb

• 宣传；宣扬；推广
  to make a lot of people know about sth and enjoy it
  1. The programme did much to popularize little-known writers.
     这个节目大力宣扬不太知名的作家。
• 使通俗化；使普及
  to make a difficult subject easier to understand for ordinary people
  1. He spent his life popularizing natural history.
     他毕生致力于普及博物学。

柯林斯词典

in BRIT, also use 英国英语亦用 popularise


• VERB 使受喜爱；使受欢迎
  Topopularizesomething means to make a lot of people interested in it and able to enjoy it.
  1. Irving Brokaw popularized figure skating in the US.
     欧文·布罗考在美国引发了花样滑冰热潮。
• VERB 使通俗；普及；推广
  Topopularizean academic subject or scientific idea means to make it more easy to understand for ordinary people.
  1. It was Aristotle who proved the world is round. Plato popularized the concept.
     亚里士多德证明了地球是圆的，柏拉图普及了这一概念。

英英释义

verb

• make understandable to the general public
  1. Carl Sagan popularized cosmology in his books
  Synonym:popularise
• cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public
  1. They popularized coffee in Washington State
  2. Relativity Theory was vulgarized by these authors
  Synonym:popularisevulgarizevulgarisegeneralizegeneralise

双语例句

• Therefore, Cydonia oblonga Mill has highly value to popularize in North China.
  因此，在我国北方，榅桲具有很高的推广价值。
• Making content freely available would help to popularize journals, and would encourage them to develop an online presence.
  免费提供杂志内容将有助于杂志的推广，而且将鼓励杂志社发展成在线办公的状态。
• To build eco-civilization, we must popularize ecological knowledge, set up ecological value, carry out a "revolution of conscience", and abandon materialism, economism and consumerism.
  为建设生态文明，必须普及生态学知识，树立生态价值观，实现“良心的革命”，摒弃物质主义、经济主义和消费主义价值观。
• That original study helped popularize such group therapy, but subsequent research produced mixed results.
  最初的研究有力的推广了这种群体疗法，但是后继的研究产生了复杂的结果。
• To develop such empathy, many universities in China have organized campus events to popularize knowledge about mental health.
  为了发挥这种移情作用，很多中国大学也组织了一系列校园活动来普及心理健康知识。
• And to popularize Go culture is of great significance in building a harmonious society today.
  今天普及围棋文化对于构建和谐社会具有重要意义。
• Of course it need the process and the step to popularize anyone products and in the popularization there will be a lot of difficulty.
  当然，任何新产品的推广和普及要经历一个过程和阶段，而且在推广过程中会面临许多难题和阻力。
• Popularize the Olympic knowledge and disseminate the Olympic ideas through various forms.
  通过多种形式普及奥林匹克知识，传播奥林匹克理念。
• He said there are many young designers and local fashion companies that want to popularize it again.
  他说有许多年轻的设计师和当地的时尚公司想使中山装重新流行起来。
• To popularize and intensify the national defense education is the common responsibility of the whole society.
  普及和加强国防教育是全社会的共同责任。