incarnation

1. N-COUNT If you say that someone is the incarnation of a particular quality, you mean that they represent that quality or are typical of it in an extreme form. 典型

The regime was the very incarnation of evil. 該政權(quán)正是邪惡的典型。

2. N-COUNT An incarnation is an instance of being alive on earth in a particular form. Some religions believe that people have several incarnations in different forms. 化身

She began recalling a series of previous incarnations. 她開始廻想起種種前世化身。