educate

educate 主要作动词，表示通过教导或训练使人获得知识、能力或正确的做法；作形容词时是已废旧的用法，表示“受过教育的”。

💡 记忆钩子

把一个人一步步“带出来、培养出来”：通过教导和训练，帮助他从不会变得会；过去也曾用 educate 直接表示“受过教育的”。

📝 学习建议

先掌握动词“教育、培训”，不要把它只理解成学校里的“教课”；它也可指向访客、员工等普及知识或训练技能。
不要把 educate 误当作“教育程度高”或“聪明”；它强调教导这一过程，形容“受过教育的”是古旧用法。

📖 中文释义

adj

rare 受过教育的

📖 这是 educate 的古旧形容词用法，指一个人已经接受过教育或训练；现代英语中很少这样使用。

💡 通常只在旧文本或历史语境中按“受过教育的”理解。现代表达一般不用 educate 作这个形容词，因此学习时应优先掌握它的动词用法。

obsolete

more educate comparative most educate superlative

verb

core 教育；培训；使了解

📖 指通过讲解、训练或引导，把知识、技能或认识传给别人，帮助对方“被培养出来”。对象既可以是学生，也可以是公众、员工或访客等群体。

💡 常用句型是 educate someone about/on something，表示“使某人了解某事”；也可说 educate someone to do something，表示“训练某人做某事”。它常用于正式或中性语境，宾语应是接受教育的人或群体，而不是要学习的知识本身。

transitive

The museum uses interactive displays to educate visitors about climate change.

这家博物馆利用互动展板让访客了解气候变化。

The program educates young workers to handle workplace emergencies.

这个项目培训年轻员工应对工作场所的紧急情况。

educates present,singular,third-person educating participle,present educated participle,past educated past

📘 英文释义 (WordNet) 共 3 组

create by training and teaching;

同义词集: train develop prepare educate

The old master is training world-class violinists

we develop the leaders for the future

上位: instruct, learn, teach 下位: drill, toilet-train

give an education to

同义词集: educate

We must educate our youngsters better

上位: ameliorate, amend, better, improve, meliorate 下位: co-educate, coeducate, groom, prepare, school, socialise, socialize, train

teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment; ;

同义词集: educate school train cultivate civilize civilise

Cultivate your musical taste

Train your tastebuds

She is well schooled in poetry

上位: down, fine-tune, polish, refine

🌳 词源

源自拉丁语，原有“养育、训练、引导出来”的意思，后来发展为“教育、培养”。

From Middle English educaten, from educat(e) (“educated”, also used as the past participle of educaten) + -en (verb-forming suffix), from Latin ēducātus, the perfect passive participle of ēducō (“(of a child, physically or mentally) to bring up, train, nourish; (of a person in learning or art) to rear, educate, train; (plants or animals) to nourish, support, or produce”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), further from an intensive/frequentative formed on ēducō (“lead out, draw out; to raise up, erect”) + -ō.

🔄 变式

educated past educates present educating present more educate compar most educate superl

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