civilize 的定义
civ·i·lized, civ·i·liz·ing.
- to bring out of a savage, uneducated, or rude state; make civil; elevate in social and private life; enlighten; refine: Rome civilized the barbarians.
civilize 近义词
make cultured; develop
更多civilize例句
- Sometimes it takes just one civilizing meal to make us feel like ourselves again.
- Alexander Stuart, the third interior secretary, once declared that the United States’ mission was to “civilize or exterminate” native people.
- An Army veteran looks at the fall of Mosul and recalls his own time there trying to civilize the land with guns and money.
- It means destroying Bedouin villages in the place where Jews civilize the desert.
- Consider it part of the mission to civilize, a necessary part of the process to start solving problems again in Washington.
- In the old days, colonial occupiers had what the French called “a mission to civilize.”
- A person who had resided some time on the coast of Africa, was asked if he thought it possible to civilize the natives?
- Nothing but slavery ever partially civilized him, nothing but slavery continued in some form can civilize him further!
- But our object in the country is to civilize and Christianize the Indian tribes among whom we are located.
- Are they useful men helping to civilize and elevate their less fortunate fellows?
- History furnishes us with abundant and specific evidence of his capacity to civilize and Christianize.