及物动词

1. 表现，体现，代表（思想或品质）
To embody an idea or quality means to be a symbol or expression of that idea or quality.

2. 包含;包括
If something is embodied in a particular thing, the second thing contains or consists of the first.

1. represent, as of a character on stage

e.g. Derek Jacobi was Hamlet

Synonym: bepersonify

2. represent in bodily form

e.g. He embodies all that is evil wrong with the system
The painting substantiates the feelings of the artist

Synonym: incarnatebody forthsubstantiate

3. represent or express something abstract in tangible form

e.g. This painting embodies the feelings of the Romantic period