embody

英語（米国） (en-US) 英語（イギリス） (en-GB)

IPA（発音記号）

/ɪmˈbɒdi/

動詞

他動詞 自動詞

to show an idea or quality in a clear form

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The new sculpture was designed to embody the community's resilience after the flood.

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意味（1）

(transitive) To represent in a physical or concrete form; to incarnate or personify.

As the car salesman approached, wearing a plaid suit and slicked-back hair, he seemed to embody sleaze.

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意味（2）

(transitive) To represent in some other form, such as a code of laws.

Given these entrenched ideological assumptions about the colonial order, it is no wonder that the state and those groups with an interest in the status quo viewed with suspicion and hostility any challenges to the fixed and natural boundaries between different sorts of people. These attitudes were perhaps best embodied by the so-called Two Republic system of Spanish America, a sprawling collection of royal legislation, local administrative policies, and informal practices, through which Spanish colonizers attempted to separate native peoples from other colonial subjects.

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意味（3）

(transitive) To comprise or include as part of a cohesive whole; to be made up of.

With the exception of the Great Eastern Line, these embody the most complete systematisation of steam or diesel-operated main line services that has yet taken place in the country.

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意味（4）

(intransitive) To unite in a body or mass.

Nay, my good friend—the people will remain / Embodied peaceably, till Parliament / Confirm the royal charter: tell your king so: / We will await the Charter's confirmation, / Meanwhile comporting ourselves orderly / As peaceful citizens, not risen in tumult, / But to redress their evils.

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embodies （ present singular third-person ）

embodying （ participle present ）

embodied （ participle past ）

embodied （ past ）