Personification

(noun.) the act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc..

(noun.) representing an abstract quality or idea as a person or creature.

(noun.) a person who represents an abstract quality; 'she is the personification of optimism'.

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• But if, instead of being the personification of reserve and discretion, she were something quite opposite, I should not fear her. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Mrs. Vesey looked the personification of human composure and female amiability. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Dorothea was not only his wife: she was a personification of that shallow world which surrounds the appreciated or desponding author. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• A personification, was Tarzan of the Apes, of the primitive man, the hunter, the warrior. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• In an age when religious faith was declining, we find men displaying a new and vivid belief in the reality of these personifications. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The Bible abounds in such personifications. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• It contained a brilliant account of the festivities and of the beautiful and accomplished Mrs. Rawdon Crawley's admirable personifications. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• In numberless cases, more or less silly personifications were resorted to. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.

校对:伊薇特