dignify
US /ˈdɪɡnəˌfaɪ/
・UK /ˈdɪgnɪfaɪ/
B2 中高級
v.t.及物動詞增威嚴 ； 使高貴 ； 故做顯貴
He refused to dignify their questions with answers
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我們的另一半可以改變嗎？！ (Can Our Partners Change?)
- It is every bit as concrete and as unbudgeable as the most strenuous feats of the visible world. We shouldn't add to our suffering by believing that we are up against some kind of stubbornness or willfulness, that they're doing it on purpose, that we're destroying years on something that could change tomorrow. We need to dignify our problems. Our lives haven't become unmoored by a haphazard matter or a nastiness of character or a streak of spite. We're up against what we might as well learn to see as one of the central trip wires of existence. We're facing the pyramids of Giza or the direction of flow of the Rhine.
它與有形世界中最艱鉅的壯舉一樣，都是具體的、不可觸摸的。我們不應該認為，我們所面對的是某種頑固不化或一意孤行，他們是故意這樣做的，我們在一些明天就可能改變的事情上浪費了很多年，從而增加我們的痛苦。我們需要讓我們的問題有尊嚴。我們的生活並不是因為一件草率的事情、一種齷齪的性格或一股怨氣而變得支離破碎。我們所面對的，是我們不妨學會將其視為存在的核心絆腳石之一。我們面對的是吉薩金字塔或萊茵河的流向。
- We need to dignify our problems.
