civilizing

英 [ˈsɪvəlaɪzɪŋ]

美 [ˈsɪvəlaɪzɪŋ]

v.  教化; 开化; 使文明; 使有教养
civilize的现在分词

BNC.34812 / COCA.24063

柯林斯词典

in BRIT, also use 英国英语亦用 civilise


• VERB 教化;使开化
  Tocivilizea person or society means to educate them and improve their way of life.
  1. ...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
  2. It exerts a civilizing influence on mankind.
     这产生了教化人类的影响。

双语例句

• Their mission of civilizing and modernizing that society had to be abandoned.
  他们不得不放弃使那个社会变得文明和现代化的使命。
• 'Wenweng civilizing ancient Shu', an important event in Studies, influenced greatly the moral integrity and cultural education of officials in Ba-Shu and the whole country.
  文翁化蜀是蜀学发展史上的一件大事，对巴蜀乃至全国吏治、文教等都产生了深远影响。
• The development of Production technology has civilizing influence upon design. Along with the progress of society and the development of science and technology, the great changes will take place on design theory and means of design in the industry design.
  设计总是受着生产技术发展的影响，随着社会的进步和科技的发展，工业设计在设计理论和设计手段上必将会发生重大的变革。
• Research on the Civilizing of China's Tax Law
  中国税法私法化研究
• Since the era of civilizing, state has been one of the most important organizational forms of human society.
  国家是自人类进入政治性社会后最重要的组织形式之一。
• But in spite of this great love he bore John thornton, which seemed to bespeak the soft civilizing influence, the strain of the primitive, which the Northland had aroused in him, remained alive and active.
  然而，除了他这种对约翰桑德怀有的伟大的爱这说明了温文尔雅的文明对他的影响，北国从他内心唤起的那种原始的牵引力依然存在而且活跃。
• The authors discuss the basic contents of political civilizing construction in ethnic autonomous regions from three aspects, i.e., conditions, means, and missions.
  作者从条件、途径和任务3个方面论述了民族区域自治地方政治文明建设的基本内涵。
• Under the civilizing influence of the great city, the country boy became a gentleman.
  在大都市的熏陶下，这乡下孩子变成绅士模样了。
• As China rises, what will be the face of its civilizing mission to the rest of the world?
  随着中国的强大，他将以什么样的面目将自己的开化任务呈现给其他国家？
• But we're civilizing them! he assured me.
  但这是我们在教化他们，他还狂妄的向我解释说。