enlighten

enlighten

意味(日本語)

啓蒙する、啓発する

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意味(英語)

  • (verb-transitive) To give spiritual or intellectual insight to: "Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppression of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day” ( Thomas Jefferson).
  • (verb-transitive) To give information to; inform or instruct.

例文

  • To enlighten is to bring light where there had previously been darkness, to replace opinion, i.e., superstition, by scientific knowledge of nature, beginning from phenomena available to all men and ending in rational demonstration possible for all men.

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delectable

delectable

楽しい、愉快な ◇de(lect)able、L.delectare(=delight)

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delectate

delectate

楽しがらせる

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delicacy

delicacy

繊細、精巧、優美

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delicate

delicate

繊細な

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delicately

delicately

繊細に、微妙に

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delicatessen

delicatessen

調整食料品(店)、デリカテッセン ◇delicat essen(=delicate food)

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delicious

delicious

(とびきり)おいしい

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delight

delight

喜び、うれしさ

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delighted

delighted

大いに喜んで

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delightful

delightful

楽しい、喜ばしい

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elicit

elicit

(反応、心理、笑いなどを)引き出す、誘い出す ◇L.ex-(=外に)+lacere(=おびき寄せる)

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