Humanize
['hjuːmənaɪz] or ['hjʊmə'naɪz]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) make more humane; 'The mayor tried to humanize life in the big city'.
艾达校對--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To render human or humane; to soften; to make gentle by overcoming cruel dispositions and rude habits; to refine or civilize.
(v. t.) To give a human character or expression to.
(v. t.) To convert into something human or belonging to man; as, to humanize vaccine lymph.
(v. i.) To become or be made more humane; to become civilized; to be ameliorated.
錄入:弗农
同義詞及近義詞：
v. a. [1]. Soften, make humane.[2]. Civilize, cultivate, refine, polish, improve, enlighten, educate, reclaim from barbarism.
校對:罗伯特
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Civilize, ameliorate, enlighten, Christianise, refine
ANT:Barbarize, degrade, debase, depress, brutalize
校對:韦恩
例句/造句/用法:
- The discovery, whatever the motive, will inevitably humanize industry a good deal. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- The earth as the home of man is humanizing and unified; the earth viewed as a miscellany of facts is scattering and imaginatively inert. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Too late we learn that such ideals cannot be recalled, though the recollection of them may have a humanizing influence on other times. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- A lively artistic tradition is essential to the humanizing of politics. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- We are breaking all humanizing ties, and making them brute beasts; and, if they get the upper hand, such we shall find them. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- Humanizing by degrees, it admitted slavery instead of death. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- But Karkov had this belief in the good which could come from his own accessibility and the humanizing possibility of benevolent intervention. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- They forget that material is humanized in the degree in which it connects with the common interests of men as men. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- And this intimacy humanizes religious controversy and brings ecclesiasticism back to men. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- He humanizes a strange country; he is a friend at court; he represents the legitimate kindliness of government, standing between the poor and the impersonal, uninviting majesty of the law. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
比安卡手打