英和和英

発音

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈlaɪtən/, /ənˈlaɪtən/, /ɛnˈlaɪtən/
  • 韻: -aɪtən
  • ハイフネーション: en‧light‧en

動詞

enlighten (三人称単数 現在形 enlightens, 現在分詞 enlightening, 過去形および過去分詞形 enlightened)

1. (transitive) To supply with light.

   Synonyms: illumine, illuminate; see also Thesaurus:illuminate

   Antonym: endarken

   The sun enlightens the Earth.

2. (transitive, figuratively) To make something clear to (someone); to give knowledge or understanding to.

   Synonyms: apprise, clarify, explain, notify, inform

   • 1844, Charles Dickens, chapter 20, in Martin Chuzzlewit:

     There was a warning sulkiness in the manner of this speech, which admonished Mr Pecksniff that his dear friend was not to be trifled with or fenced off, and that he must either return a straight–forward reply to his question, or plainly give him to understand that he declined to enlighten him upon the subject to which it referred.

   • 1904 August 27, John Hossack, “The Mysteries of the People”, in New York Times:

     As your reviewer showed, the purpose of the translator and publishers is to help along the labor movement by furnishing a lesson from the past to enlighten the movement of to-day.

   • 2016 October 30, Bernie Evans, “The big issue: where the true blame lies for our dangerous politics of hate”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     Rather than focus on true-to-life drama that might have enlightened viewers, the BBC, frightened by Tory politicians’ threats to its very existence, concentrated its dramatic output on inaccurate historical soap operas, that falsified the view of our past.