For our edification, the preacher reminded us what ‘duty’ meant.
作为对我们的教导,传道人提醒我们“责任”的意义。
Examples from the Corpus
edify• I've had to edit ten years of your memories, a lot of which weren't edifying.• The arts, in short, were pleasant and edifying if not quite essential.• The movie neither edifies nor entertains its viewers.• The corporate form has always been in ceaselessconflict with the edifyingspirit of man.• It does not matter whether the purpose is to educate or edify, to corrupt or simply to make money.• It was edifying to see how much excitement Ibrahim and the band could generate without shouting.• No doubt in time Hamish will edify us on the subject of bastardised Corbetts.
Originedify
(1300-1400)Frenchédifier, from Latinaedificare“to build a house”, from aedes“house”