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单词 civilize
释义
civilize
verb[T]
(UKusuallycivilise)
uk
/ˈsɪv.əl.aɪz/us
/ˈsɪv.əl.aɪz/
toeducateasocietyso thatitsculturebecomesmoredeveloped:
教化；开化
The Romans set out to civilize the AncientBritons.罗马人着手教化古不列颠人。
toimprovesomeone'sbehaviour:
使文明；使有教养
I like tothinkI had a civilizingeffecton myyoungerbrothers.我希望我影响了弟弟们，使他们变得文明起来。
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Teaching in general
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  • clue
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  • non-didactic
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  • SRE
  • synchronous
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(Definition ofcivilizefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

civilize| American Dictionary

civilize
verb[T]
us
/ˈsɪv·əˌlɑɪz/
toeducatepeopleor asocietytodevelopitfurther:
Dedicatedteacherslaboredunderdifficultconditionsto civilizefrontiersociety.
(Definition ofcivilizefrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofcivilize

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In other words, the 'imperial order' has existed in non-western areas, where most of those nations were not recognized as civilized throughout the nineteenth century.
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They do not merely speak for a straightforward attempt to make the civilizing power of science operative in the reader's mind.
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There is an acceptance within the text that increasingly the local state took control over the civilizing mission previously exercised by a ubiquitous voluntary sector.
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Various "civilized" measures to suppress differences and heterogeneity in the use of space were only provoking resistive spatial practices among the residents.
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A prime target, not surprisingly, is the ubiquitous and mostly condescending celebration of women for their "civilizing" influence on men.
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The fundamental distinction between civilized and barbarian nations meant that while this perceived society was international, in no sense was it global.
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Their task was to convince doubting officials that they, too, could be counted as agents of civilizing progress.
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The myth portrayed the transformation of a violent abduction into the civilized social alliance sanctioned by the marriage bond.
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The professional architects of the time were also enthusiastic about taking part in this process as civilizing agents.
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Because they think that it is for people that are not civilized.
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The great healing effect of publicity is that by revealing men's motives it civilizes them.
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Given this human/animal boundary, it was only a guided rational approach that could make the boy fully civilized and therefore fully human.
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Because of its antiquity, its unpredictability and its global presence, the disease found a prominent place in the colonial civilizing mission.
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Let us say that a subset of a topological space is civilized if it is closed, has only finitely many components, and each of its components is path-connected.
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The alien is revealed to be merely a lost, primitive version of the familiar, and imperial power flows less from civilizing the savage than from reviving the inner barbarian.
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