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

• 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。
• But it is civilizing work, of which scientists are able to feel proud.
  但是，这是一个文明化的工作，对这一工作科学家是可以感到骄傲的。
• Since the era of civilizing, state has been one of the most important organizational forms of human society.
  国家是自人类进入政治性社会后最重要的组织形式之一。
• It exerts a civilizing influence on mankind.
  这产生了教化人类的影响。
• 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。
• 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；
• The Conditions, Means, and Missions of Political Civilizing Construction in Ethnic Autonomous Regions
  民族区域自治地方政治文明建设的条件、途径和任务
• 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。
• His wife has had a civilizing influence on him.
  他妻子对改进他举止言谈有潜移默化的影响。
• Under the civilizing influence of the great city, the country boy became a gentleman.
  在大都市的熏陶下，这乡下孩子变成绅士模样了。