personification

名词 personification:

1. a person who represents an abstract quality
2. representing an abstract quality or idea as a person or creature
   同义词：prosopopoeia
3. the act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc.
   同义词：incarnation

1. Although she is poor, she is the personification of generosity.
   她虽然贫穷，却是慷慨大方的化身。
2. He looked the personification of misery.
   他那副样子可谓是苦难的典型。
3. She was the personification of elegance.
   她是优雅的化身。

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n.（名词）
The act of personifying.
拟人化，人格化：拟人化的行为
A person or thing typifying a certain quality or idea; an embodiment or exemplification:
化身，象征：象征某种特性或思想的人或事；化身或典范：
例句：
.He`s invisible, a walking personification of the Negative.(Ralph Ellison)
.他是隐蔽的，一个持否定观点的活化身.(拉尔夫·埃利森)

A figure of speech in which inanimate objects or abstractions are endowed with human qualities or are represented as possessing human form, as inHunger sat shivering on the road or Flowers danced about the lawn. Also called prosopopeia
拟人，人格化：给无生命的东西或者抽象的东西赋予人的个性或绘以人的形象，如在句子饥饿站在路上颤抖 或 花儿在草地上翩翩起舞 也作 prosopopeia
Artistic representation of an abstract quality or idea as a person.
拟人化表现：把抽象事物或思想赋予人性的艺术表现手法