edification
edification 英 [ˌedɪfɪˈkeɪʃn] 美 [ˌɛdəfɪˈkeʃən]
n. 启迪；教诲；精神修养
名词复数:edifications
- If something is for your edification, watch out! It means it's designed to improve you in some way, whether morally, educationally, or spiritually.
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- n. 启迪；教诲；精神修养
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1. He does this not just for his own edification, but also for product ideas.
他这样做不只是为了提高自己的水平，而且也是为了产品创意。
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2. For years I wondered why Jesus' Great Commission gives the same prominence to baptism as it does to the great tasks of evangelism and edification.
有很长一段时间，我对耶稣在大使命里，将受洗、传福音与教导列为同等重要，而感到困惑。
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3. 'If you want to ask for edification on these things of moment, there's a very earnest good man going to preach a charity-sermon to-day in the parish you are going to - Mr Clare of Emminster.
要是你想在这些问题上得到启发，在你要去的那个教区，今天有一个非常热心的好人要去作慈善讲道，他就是爱敏寺的克莱尔先生。
- edification (n.) mid-14c., in religious use, "a building up of the soul," from Old French edificacion "a building, construction; edification, good example," and directly from Latin aedificationem (nominative aedificatio) "construction, the process of building; a building, an edifice," in Late Latin "spiritual improvement," from past participle stem of aedificare "to build" (see edifice). Religious use is as translation of Greek oikodome in I Corinthians xiv. Meaning "mental improvement" is 1650s. Literal sense of "building" is rare in English, but Middle English bilding sometimes was used in religious writing to translate Latin aedificatio.
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