1. 受欢迎：popularization 通俗化 | popularize 受欢迎 | popularizer 大众化的人

2. popularize

2. 使流行：electrify使充电 | popularize使流行 | frighten使惊吓

3. 使普及：popular 流行的 | popularize 使普及 | populate 居住

4. (使)大众化,(使)普及,推广：popularity 大众性,通俗性 | popularize (使)大众化,(使)普及,推广 | popularizer 普及者,推广者

1. 使受喜爱；使受欢迎
    To popularize something means to make a lot of people interested in it and able to enjoy it.

    e.g. Irving Brokaw popularized figure skating in the US.
           欧文·布罗考在美国引发了花样滑冰热潮。

2. 使通俗；普及；推广
    To popularize an academic subject or scientific idea means to make it more easy to understand for ordinary people.

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    e.g. It was Aristotle who proved the world is round. Plato popularized the concept.
           亚里士多德证明了地球是圆的，柏拉图普及了这一概念。

1. make understandable to the general public

    e.g. Carl Sagan popularized cosmology in his books

    Synonym: popularise

2. cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public
    bring into general or common use

    e.g. They popularized coffee in Washington State
           Relativity Theory was vulgarized by these authors

    Synonym: popularisevulgarizevulgarisegeneralizegeneralise