English Dictionary

sophisticate

IPA（発音記号）

[səˈfɪstɪkət]

動詞

他動詞

(transitive) To make less natural or innocent. / To practice sophistry; change the meaning of, or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive.

日本語の意味

純真さや自然さを失わせるように変える、あるいは洗練し過ぎて無邪気さを損なうようにする。 / 詭弁を用い、意味を曖昧に変えたり操作したりして誤導・欺く。

She feared that exposure to city life would sophisticate her younger sister's honest ways.

彼女は、都会の生活に触れることが妹の素朴な振る舞いから無邪気さを奪ってしまうのではないかと恐れていた。

意味（1）

(transitive) To make less natural or innocent.

Psychologists have developed quasi-causal theories to explain the directedness of behaviour, to answer the question ‘Why are certain sorts of reasons operative?’ and these theories may well have insinuated themselves into ordinary language as part of the meaning of “motive”. It might well be, therefore, that people who are slightly sophisticated by psychological theories assume some such necessary connexion [between giving the motive for an action and making any assertions of a causal kind about a man’s emotional state].

意味（2）

To practice sophistry; change the meaning of, or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive.

The benevolence of her heart taught her, in this instance, to sophisticate.

意味（3）

(transitive) To alter and make impure, as with the intention to deceive.

to mingle or sophisticate any Wine here

意味（4）

(transitive) To make more complex or refined.

sophisticates （ present singular third-person ）

sophisticating （ participle present ）

sophisticated （ participle past ）

sophisticated （ past ）