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

• According to social conditions, legislative environments and civilizing levels, because of the constraint of traditional ethics and values, the ideas of people need to change, and it will take a long time to understand and accept the ideas of euthanasia;
  从我国的国情、立法环境和文明程度来看，由于受传统伦理道德和价值观念的束缚，民众观念需要转变，对安乐死的认识和接受还需要时间；
• '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。
• 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。
• Education, which is supposed to be an action of civilizing people, should cherish students 'life.
  教育是一种培养人的活动，应该呵护学生的生命和教会学生热爱生命。
• Olympism is a being philosophy, also an ideal spirit, and is a civilizing movement to enhance the life quality of the modern people.
  奥林匹克主义是一种生命哲学，也是一种理想精神、一种提升现代人生命质量的文明运动。
• 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。
• On the contrary, the great books are not dusty remains for scholars to investigate, but the most potent civilizing forces in the world today.
  经典名著绝不是供学者钻研的故纸堆，恰恰相反，它们是今日世界上最强大的文明力量。
• She is credited with advancing the civilizing influence of culture upon humanity, inventing the flute, trumpet, potter's wheel, earthenware, plough, rake and ox-yoke.
  她具有向人类推进教化的文化的影响，发明长笛，喇叭，陶器工人的车轮，陶器，犁，耙和公牛轭。
• As a rightful combination of ethnic autonomy and regional autonomy, the regional ethnic autonomy system is an achievement of the political civilizing construction with Chinese characteristics as well as a basis for its future development.
  民族自治和区域自治之间正确结合的民族区域自治制度是中国特色社会主义政治文明建设的成果，也是未来中国特色社会主义政治文明建设的制度基础之一。
• 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。