personification
拟人
definition
noun
In those cultures, many scholars and many books would say the same: All these gods are then personification of some nature or phenomenon.
the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.
translation of 'personification'
noun
拟人法,
拟人
example
Music is simply an 'personification' of the soul.
With its emphasis on 'personification' and topical allusion, allegory has a long association with political discourse.
Momus, from the Greek word for blame or criticism, was the ancient world's 'personification' of the contrarian spirit.
Here a 'personification' of Painting, crowned with the eye of perspective, is shown in profile extending an embrace toward the hands of friendship.
he was the very 'personification' of British pluck and diplomacy
His initial poems lean heavily on outmoded styles and subjects, such as Norse 'personification' , sailors of Devon, or the bird as a correlative for soaring aspiration.
However, he reflected deeply on the existence of this inner woman who possessed the power to upset him, and concluded that she must be the 'personification' of his soul.
Perhaps it's partially the combination of 'personification' and blatant gender stereotypes.
Eros is a term insufficiently abstract; Eros is a god, Aphrodite a 'personification' .
he was the very 'personification' of British pluck and diplomacy
This supposed 'personification' of an ancient sacred landscape appears as nothing of the sort but rather a generic Old Man River figurehead.
He is the 'personification' of material universe in all its various magnificent manifestations.
He was the 'personification' and embodiment of hip-hop.
the book provides a sustained account of how literary 'personification' works
In those cultures, many scholars and many books would say the same: All these gods are then 'personification' of some nature or phenomenon.
They acted as the 'personification' or representatives of the party and the country, which were considered two sides of the same coin.
That's all this 'personification' of modesty has to say.
He is the 'personification' of eclecticism which results in a frustratingly mixed qualitative output.
In the drawing for the full composition, the 'personification' of architecture holds a model of a structure with Doric columns.
His public image was the 'personification' of noblesse oblige, a wholesome and vigorous young president with a beautiful wife and young children.
In Matthew, Jesus is the fulfillment and 'personification' of Torah, the fully ‘faithful Child whom God had desired in Israel.’
The function of this process of 'personification' is that it permits nature to be thought of as if it were a society of persons, and so makes of it a social or moral order.
The goddess Nature is an amoral pagan 'personification' , her laws harsh and ineluctable.
These people have become the epitome and complete 'personification' of Greed and Corruption.
His grave monument reportedly featured the 'personification' of Oligarchy setting fire to personified Democracy.
Evil, mysterious, hostile to health and goodness, demons were once viewed as inferior gods-the 'personification' of the powers behind human sickness, idolatry, and heresy.
But indeed it is only strictly speaking that something is amiss, only if the allegorical content of each 'personification' must be taken seriously.
The lake is a 'personification' of peace, tranquillity and unfathomable calm.
You might even say that Anne serves as an American name for the tempter Mara, 'personification' of desire in the Buddhist cosmology.
Not only did Cameron produce numerous portraits of Jackson as herself, but also as a poetic ‘Stella’ and a 'personification' of ‘Beauty.’
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