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　

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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
  1. 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。

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。

英英释义

verb

• raise from a barbaric to a civilized state
  1. The wild child found wandering in the forest was gradually civilized
  Synonym:civilise
• teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment
  1. Cultivate your musical taste
  2. Train your tastebuds
  3. She is well schooled in poetry
  Synonym:educateschooltraincultivatecivilise

双语例句

• Civilize, his wife has a civilizing influence on him.
  他的妻子对他起到了教化作用。
• They hope to civilize all the natives in the distant area.
  他们希望使边远地区所有的老百姓都能接受文明。
• We must civilize away the boy's bad habit.
  我们必须教育这孩子使其改掉恶习。
• 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。
• They had given up trying to civilize Chicago, and they saw no point in including those mad dogs in this important conference.
  他们早已放弃了促使芝加哥派开化的打算，他们认为让那群疯狗也参加如此重要的会议是毫无道理的。
• The culture means to civilize people, and its function is to control and reform people's natural attribute and behavior.
  文化的本义是以文化民，其作用是对人自己的自然属性和本能行为进行自律和改造；
• 'I think it would civilize people a bit more if they had decent conditions.' — 'I think you've hit the nail on the head.'
  “我认为，如果人们有良好的环境，就会更有教养一点。”——“我想你说到点子上了。”
• Those facilities are intended to civilize people.
  那些设施的目的在於教化民众。
• The spirit of Nature has left the modern civilized man, and it seems to me we are trying to civilize the trees themselves.
  大自然的精神已经离开了现代的文明人；在我看来，我们正在企图使树木本身也开化了。