immortalize
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++im·mor·tal·ize (also immortalise British English) /ɪˈmɔːtəlaɪz $ -ɔːr-/ verb [transitive] FAMOUSto make someone or something famous for a long time, especially by writing about them, painting a picture of them etc 〔尤指通过著书、画像等〕使不朽，使名垂千古 Dickens’ father was immortalized as Mr Micawber in ‘David Copperfield’. 狄更斯的父亲作为《大卫 · 科波菲尔》中米考伯先生的原型而被后人铭记。n Grammar Immortalize is usually passive.→ See Verb table
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immortalize• He was determined to be remembered, immortalized.• But the rank-and-file glories immortalized by Malraux have faded into the history books.• Gregg immortalized himself by replying that his ammunition was exhausted but that he thought he could hold with the bayonet.• The Choptank is the river immortalized in James Michener's novel "Chesapeake."• Morgan and Virgil Earp were wounded in the exchange, which has been immortalized in Western lore.• He would immortalize Jack and vindicate himself from his culpable grief by becoming what Jack would have been.• Luckily, her husband found George Brownlee to immortalize the middle-aged bear in wood.im·mor·tal·ize verb →n GRAMMAR1LDOCE OnlineChineseSyllable
someone make especially famous or for something to Corpus long a time,
immortalize
im‧mor‧tal‧ize
(also immortalise British English) /ɪˈmɔːtəlaɪz $ -ɔːr-/ verb [transitive usually passive]
to make someone or something famous for a long time, especially by writing about them, painting a picture of them etc:
Dickens’ father was immortalized as Mr Micawber in ‘David Copperfield’.
im‧mor‧tal‧ize
(also immortalise British English) /ɪˈmɔːtəlaɪz $ -ɔːr-/ verb [transitive usually passive]to make someone or something famous for a long time, especially by writing about them, painting a picture of them etc:
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