- civilise
- ['sivilaiz]
- vt. 教化；文明化；使开化
vi. 变成文明社会（等于civilize）
参考例子
- 1.And the mission to civilise that was the colonial kind of project is now a mission to civilise France's own population.
- 文明化工程在过去本是殖民性质的工程，可现在它却成了教化法国自己人口的工程。
- 2.Thousands of Aboriginal children were forcibly removed from their families and raised by whites in a government policy to "civilise" them.
- 按照政府“教化”土著居民的政策，成千上万的土著孩子曾被强行从家中带走并交由白人抚养。
英文解释
- v.
- 1.train to be discriminative in taste or judgment
- 2.raise from a barbaric to a civilized state
网络释义
- civilise
- 文明化; 教化;