Civilize

['sɪvəlaɪz]

解释:

(verb.) raise from a barbaric to a civilized state; 'The wild child found wandering in the forest was gradually civilized'.

编辑:基蒂--From WordNet

解释:

(v. t.) To reclaim from a savage state; to instruct in the rules and customs of civilization; to educate; to refine.

(v. t.) To admit as suitable to a civilized state.

录入:卡利

同义词及近义词：

v. a. Refine, cultivate, educate, polish, enlighten, improve, humanize, reclaim from barbarism.

整理:罗威娜

例句:

Why then isn't there a budget, a large, comprehensive budget, precise and informing, in which provision is made for beginning to civilize Chicago? 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
If Hull House is unable to civilize Chicago, it at least shows Chicago and America what a civilization might be like. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
A little Athens in a vast barbarism--you wonder how much of Chicago Hull House can civilize. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
The population of Ecclefigg are a parcel of brutes; we want to civilize them. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
That subtle fact,--the change of business motives, the demonstration that industry can be conducted as medicine is,--may civilize the whole class conflict. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
I saw vessels near the shore, and found myself suddenly transported back to the neighbourhood of civilized man. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
That the United States has from the beginning far outstripped the rest of the civilized world in the growth of the telephone is shown by comparison. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
Italy lay in the centre of what was at that time the improved and civilized part of the world. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
It was a civilized people for long ages before the fair Aryan Greeks spread southward through Macedonia. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
The savage is merely habituated; the civilized man has habits which transform the environment. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
From the Gulf of Finland to the Eastern Ocean, Russia now assumes the form of a powerful and civilized empire. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
They are now distributed over nearly all the civilized parts of the world, but in large ponds they readily revert to the color of the original stock. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
The ruthless exploitation of India becomes the civilizing fulfilment of the white man's burden; not infrequently the missionary, drummer, and prospector are embodied in one man. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
The dance halls, the social centers, the playgrounds, the reception of strangers--these can become instruments for civilizing sexual need. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
The task of civilizing our impulses by creating fine opportunities for their expression cannot be accomplished through the City Hall alone. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
And so no man can gauge the civilizing possibilities of a new set of motives in business. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
But once you see the state as a provider of civilizing opportunities, his whole objection collapses. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
The underlying tone of it is that society is made by man for man's uses, that reforms are inventions to be applied when by experiment they show their civilizing value. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
To their civilizing work among the Indians in South America we shall presently allude. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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