1the personification of somethingTYPICALsomeone who is a perfect example of a quality because they have a lot of it 某事物的化身
He became the personification of the financial excess of the 1980s.
他成了20世纪80年代金融过热时期的一个典型。
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the personification of something• Mait had trained him to be the personification of Death, his own private Baron Samedi.• Their twistedcunning movements were vividly contrasted with those she created for Elihu, the personification ofYouth and Truth.• Decibel is the personification of an abstract quality.• The heroine, Maryska, is the personification offemalesexuality.• Sarah is the personification offeminineinnocence.• Also shown are Leto and probably Ortygia, the personification of the island of Delos.• Gallacher was the personification ofscandal.• In so far as Jupitersurvived he was the personification ofProvidence or Destiny.• Its hooting was thought to presage death, for owls were the personification ofrestless spirits returning to earth to seekrevenge.
2[countableC, uncountableU]SIGN/SYMBOL the representation of a thing or a quality as a person, in literature or art 〔文学或艺术中的〕拟人化,人格化
personification of
the personification of rivers in fifth-century art
五世纪艺术中对河流的拟人化
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personification• The arch spandrels are decorated by figures of wingedvictory and personifications of rivers.• Political integrityassumes a particularly deeppersonification of the community or state.• Hera becomes an impartial, giving and destroying, personification of nature at its most hidden.• But I must be clearer what kind of personification this is.• the poem's personification of the moon• Mait had trained him to be the personification of Death, his own privateBaron Samedi.• Its hooting was thought to presage death, for owls were the personification of restless spirits returning to earth to seekrevenge.• He is, you will also have gathered, the very personification of an arts educationcommercial.• We find other and even more important examples of working personification in the logic of individual political rights against the state.