英 [ˈɪləstreɪt] 美 [ˈɪləstreɪt]
v. 加插图于；说明，阐明；证明，证实
第三人称单数illustrates
现在分词illustrating
过去式illustrated
过去分词illustrated
illustrate /ˈɪləˌstreɪt/ CET4 TEM4 [ illustrating illustrated illustrates ]
及物动词 If you say that something illustrates a situation that you are drawing attention to, you mean that it shows that the situation exists. 表明; 显示
The example of the United States illustrates this point.
美国的例子表明了这一点。
The situation illustrates how vulnerable the president is.
这个情况显示总统是多么地不堪一击。
及物动词 If you use an example, story, or diagram to illustrate a point, you use it to show that what you are saying is true or to make your meaning clearer. (用例子、故事或图表) 阐明
Let me give another example to illustrate this difficult point.
让我举另一个例子来阐明这个难点。
不可数名词 例证
Here, by way of illustration, are some extracts from our new catalogue.
这里引为例证的是摘自我们新目录的部分内容。
及物动词 If you illustrate a book, you put pictures, photographs or diagrams into it. 给 (书) 加插图
She went on to art school and is now illustrating a book.
她接着上了美术学校，现在正在给一本书画插图。
不可数名词 (书的) 插图
...the world of children's book illustration.
…儿童书籍插图的世界。
图解-引用次数：2
参考来源徘徊于幽暗与澄明之境
举例说明
请特别注意第四句中illustrate（举例说明）。另外，第四段第一句也提到，虽然专业化和专门化过程早在19世纪已在英国的地质学领域展开，但直到20世纪我们才看到其全面影响。
... Popularity 普及，流行，声望，通俗性，大众化 illustrate 说明，阐明，声明 infer 推断，推理，推论 ...
...要打断对方的谈话；2、 分担 （ Share ）；3、澄清（Clarify）：无论对与否，必要时予以精神和物质奖励；4、 阐明 （ Illustrate ）：需告知客户具体的解决时间与方法；5、要..
... illusion n.幻想，错误的观念；错觉，幻觉，假象 illustrate v.举例说明，阐明；图解，加插图 illustration n.说明；例证，插图；举例说明 ...
illustrative 说明的；作例证的；解说的
illustration 说明；插图；例证；图解
illustrator 插图画家；说明者；图解者
Let me illustrate what I mean with an old story.
让我用一个老故事来说明我指的是什么吧。
One example will suffice to illustrate the point.
举一个例子就足以说明这一点。
To illustrate my point , let me tell you a little story.
为了说明我的观点，让我来给你们讲个小故事。
The Kuwaiti artist Farah Behbehani uses different traditions of Arabic writing to illustrate "The Conference of the Birds,"
VOA : special.2009.03.11
Well I've only been tell you a few things about it right now and actually I can illustrate by very examples.
我只是告诉了你们几件事,实际上我可以通过例子来解释。
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So I realize that this was among a more childish demonstrations that I could come up with to illustrate this point.
我意识到这个一个很幼稚的演示,我可以举例来说明这一点。
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But,these cases illustrate that when donors bring in food, those who make a living growing and selling food can suffer.
VOA : standard.2010.04.29
"But they illustrate what I want to try to do in this book,which is to just broaden the thinking to get away from this traditional sort of radio search.
VOA : standard.2010.04.16
Beers like Two Hundred fathoms illustrate how far Irish stout has come in the last few years.
The tour focuses on peeling back the layers of history to illustrate what has and has not changed.
Andrew Pollack's news articles on issues related to genetic engineering applied to agriculture illustrate why.