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illuminate: make understandable I asked a classmate to illuminate the professors far-ranging lecture for me. 【考法1】vt. 照明： to make luminous or shining 【例】 to illuminate with a spotlight 用聚光灯照亮 【近】 bathe, beacon, emblaze, illume, illumine, irradiate, lighten 【反】 blacken, darken, obfuscate 使黯淡，使昏暗 【考法2】vt. 阐明： to make plain or understandable 【例】 Roosevelts New Deal illuminates what the role of government is in Keynesian Economics. 罗 斯福新政阐明了在凯恩斯主义中政府的作用 【近】 clarify, clear, construe, demonstrate, demystify, elucidate, explicate, expound, illustrate, interpret 【反】 obscure 使费解 【考法3】vt. 启迪，启发： to provide with moral or spiritual understanding 【例】 how man is illuminated by a higher spirit 人们是如何被更高境界的思想开化的 【近】 edify, educate, enlighten, inspire, nurture 【反】 confuse, perplex, puzzle 使困惑 【派】 illumination n. 照明;启迪 | 
