英英释义：to influence the way someone's character or attitudes develop.

“mold”可以作名词也可以作动词，作名词的意思是“模具”“类型”。它作动词的本意是“用模具塑造”，可以引申为“影响”“塑造”，和我们之前学过的 shape 异曲同工。

可以把它和我们熟悉和学过的 influence, impact, shape, sway 放在一起记。

mold something/somebody into something 是一个常用的搭配

英式写法是 mould。

sentence

1. The mission of the business school is to mold students into business-savvy and analytical managers. 

2. Many parents hope to mold their children into hard-working and curious minds. 

3. Just as school buildings influence how students learn, so offices mold the people who work in them.

4. Mr Azhar himself has at various times been detained, before being quietly released to mould more jihadists. 

5. This report will explore how Muslim identity has been moulded by external and internal pressures since the mass migration to the West began in the 1950s. 

6. Foreign organisations, Western governments and jihadists have all sought to speak for and mould Islam in the West, but the more established the faith becomes there, the less truck it wants with any of them.

practice

 特朗普惯于通过推特发表言论影响民意。

Trump often molds voters by twitting his views.

参考翻译：Trump is used to molding public opinion through tweets.

 或 Trump is used to using tweets to mold public opinion.