civilize
英 [ˈsɪvəlaɪz]
美 [ˈsɪvəlaɪz]
v. 教化; 开化; 使文明; 使有教养
过去式:civilized 过去分词:civilized 现在分词:civilizing 第三人称单数:civilizes
Collins.1 / BNC.37707 / COCA.27624
牛津词典
verb
- 教化;开化;使文明;使有教养
to educate and improve a person or a society; to make sb's behaviour or manners better- The girls in a class tend to have a civilizing influence on the boys.
班上的女生往往能让男生文雅起来。
- The girls in a class tend to have a civilizing influence on the boys.
柯林斯词典
- VERB 教化;使开化
Tocivilizea person or society means to educate them and improve their way of life.- ...a comedy about a man who tries to civilise a woman—but she ends up civilising him...
一出有关一个男人试图教化一个女人,结果反而被那个女人教化的喜剧 - It exerts a civilizing influence on mankind.
这产生了教化人类的影响。
- ...a comedy about a man who tries to civilise a woman—but she ends up civilising him...
in BRIT, also use 英国英语亦用 civilise
英英释义
verb
- raise from a barbaric to a civilized state
- The wild child found wandering in the forest was gradually civilized
- teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment
- Cultivate your musical taste
- Train your tastebuds
- She is well schooled in poetry
双语例句
- The african countries hoped to civilize all the primitive tribes on the land.
非洲国家希望把非洲所有的原始部落都变成文明社会。 - The governor of Rome wanted to civilize all the civilians by education.
罗马的统治者想要通过教育来教化全罗马的公民。 - Thinking about Showing Civilize Care in Sports News Reports
关于体育新闻报道中体现人文关怀的思考 - Let us not bully our way through life, but let a growing sensitivity to history temper and civilize our use of power.
让我们不要在生活中充斥暴力,而是让一种日益增长的对历史的敏感,调和与开化对于权利的运用。 - Those facilities are intended to civilize people.
那些设施的目的在於教化民众。 - And smile are passing our civilize and culture to the world.
微笑将把我们的文化传递给世界。 - If you would civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.
假如你想教育一个男人,先从他的祖母开始吧。 - School education helped to civilize the people.
学校教育使人们文明起来。 - Fortas considered the Supreme Court's refinement of the criminal law and its expansion of civil rights as a related process, part of an overall effort by society to civilize itself.
福塔斯认为,最高法院所致力于的完善刑事法和扩大公民权利是两个相关程序,是社会自身文明化发展的总体努力的组成部分。 - The project aimed to "civilize" Aboriginal children.
那项计划本来为的是“教化”土著儿童。