immortalize

IPA/ɪˈmɔːtəlaɪz/
KK[ˌɪmˈɔrtəlaɪz]IPA/ɪˈmɔːrtəlaɪz/

immortalize — 動詞

  • immortalizepresent simple I / you / we / they
  • immortalizeshe / she / it
  • immortalizedpast simple
  • immortalizing-ing form

1. to make a person, event, or thing so widely known or celebrated that people cont

1.動詞及物C1
釋義

使不朽

使出名而長久被記住

to make a person, event, or thing so widely known or celebrated that people continue to remember them far into the future, typically through a work of art, literature, film, or other lasting record

例句

Sirin's award-winning photograph immortalized the joy of the village festival.

Sirin 那張得獎的攝影作品，讓村莊節慶的歡樂永垂不朽。

The battle was immortalized in a famous poem that schoolchildren still read today.

這場戰役因一首著名詩作而不朽，至今小學生仍在誦讀。

passive: be immortalized in + [art form]

同義詞
  • commemorate

    focuses on honouring or remembering an event, often with a ceremony or monument, rather than achieving lasting fame

  • enshrine

    suggests reverent preservation, as if something is kept sacred; more formal and less common

  • eternalize

    a near-synonym but very rare in everyday language

反義詞
  • forget

    the opposite effect — to no longer have someone or something in memory

  • obscure

    to make someone or something unknown or difficult to remember

文法句型

immortalize + noun phrase

be immortalized + in/by + noun phrase

用法筆記

Frequently used in the passive voice (be immortalized in/by). The object of the active sentence becomes the subject in the passive, and the medium of preservation (a book, film, painting, song, etc.) typically follows the preposition 'in'.

常見錯誤

❌The documentary immortalized.
✅The documentary immortalized the festival.
💡'immortalize' is transitive and always needs a direct object specifying who or what is made famous.
❌His performance made him immortalize.
✅His performance immortalized him.
💡Do not add 'make' before 'immortalize'; the verb already means 'to make famous forever'.