2008年9月2日 星期二

embody, the embodiment of sth


Michelle Obama's speech focused on her life and family and began to espouse a theme that will be repeated over and over again this week as she described "her husband--and his entire family--as embodiments of the American dream," notes the NYT.



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維吉尼亞大學心理學教授安嬌琳.李拉德說,太多學校還是嚴守傳統的課堂「工廠模式」,孩童安靜地排排坐,被看成一張張白紙,老師只要對他們說話,就可以讓他們牢記知識。

Professor Lillard said that this approach ran counter to everything that psychologists had discovered in the past hundred years about how children learn.

李拉德教授說,這種方法與心理學家過去數百年間所發現有關孩童如何學習的種種結論,背道而馳。

"We were designed in nature to think about the world in relation to how we physically interact with it-it’s called embodied cognition. So it’s only natural that children learn better when they get to move,”she said.

「我們天生是以身體與世界互動的方式,來思考認識這個世界—這叫作具體認知。所以孩童可以走動時,學習的效果更好,只是自然現象。」她說。



embody
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verb [T] FORMAL
━━ vt. 形体を与える, 有形にする; 具体化する, 具体的に表現する ((in)); 一体にする, 統合する, 包含する.

1 to represent a quality or an idea exactly:
She embodied good sportsmanship on the playing field.

2 to include as part of something:
Kennett embodied in one man an unusual range of science, music and religion.

embodiment Show phonetics
noun
the embodiment of sth someone or something that represents a quality or an idea exactly:
He was the embodiment of the English gentleman.
She was portrayed in the papers as the embodiment of evil.


embodied Technological Progress 包含性技術進步

海事 embodied in the policy 契約保險單

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