English Dictionary

embody

IPA（発音記号）

/ɪmˈbɒdi/

動詞

他動詞 自動詞

(transitive) To represent in a physical or concrete form; to incarnate or personify. / (transitive) To represent in some other form, such as a code of laws.

日本語の意味

具体的または物理的な形で表現する、あるいは体現する / 抽象的な概念や規範（例：法律のコード）を別の形に表す

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

その新しい彫刻は、洪水後の地域社会のたくましさを体現するように作られた。

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.

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.

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.

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.

embodies （ present singular third-person ）

embodying （ participle present ）

embodied （ participle past ）

embodied （ past ）