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- 过去式： popularized
- 过去分词： popularized
- 现在分词： popularizing
- 第三人称单数： popularizes
in BRIT, also use 英国英语亦用 popularise
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VERB
使受喜爱；使受欢迎 To popularize something means to make a lot of people interested in it and able to enjoy it.
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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。
popularization
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...the popularisation of sport through television.
电视引发的体育大众化
2.
VERB
使通俗；普及；推广 To popularize an academic subject or scientific idea means to make it more easy to understand for ordinary people.
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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。
popularization
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He became world famous for his popularisation of science.
他因对科学知识的通俗化而闻名世界。
- Verb
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1. cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use;
- "They popularized coffee in Washington State"
- "Relativity Theory was vulgarized by these authors"
- synonym： popularise，vulgarize，vulgarise，generalize，generalise
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2. make understandable to the general public;
- "Carl Sagan popularized cosmology in his books"
- synonym： popularise
- 1. The company is trying to popularize its new products.
- 公司努力推广新产品。
来自《简明英汉词典》
