' I persuaded her, ' he said, with an edifying air of superiority.

“说服她，”他说，带着一种令陶醉优越感。

You are giving thanks well enough, but no one else is edified.

你感谢固然是好，无奈不能造就别。

Among the sights of Europe, that of Rome has ever been held one of the most striking and in some respects edifying.

在欧洲景点中，罗马一直被认为是注目，在某些方面具有启发性景点之一。

Your industry edifies me, and I am sure that you will eventually be a baronet and the President of the Royal College of Surgeons; and you shall relieve royal persons of their, vermiform appendix.

你勤奋启迪，相信你终会成为准男爵和皇家外科学院院长；你将解除皇室成员蠕虫状阑尾。

He regarded its complications as more curious than edifying, and he had an idea of the beauty of reason , which was, on the whole, meagrely gratified by what he observed in his female patients.

他认为它复杂性与其说是启发，不如说是好奇，而且他深知理性之美，总来说，他对女性患者观察结果勉强令满意。

Had Tolstoi lived at the Priory in seclusion with a married lady 'cut off from what is called the world', however edifying the moral lesson, he could scarcely, I thought, have written WAR AND PEACE.

如果托尔斯泰和一位“与所谓世界隔绝”已婚女士隐居在修道院，无论他如何启发道德教训，想，他都很难写出《战争与和平》。