westernize
英 ['westənaɪz]
美['wɛstɚnaɪz]
- vt. 使西洋化，使欧化
英英释义
- 1. make western in character;
- "The country was Westernized after it opened up"
实用场景例句
- The islands have been westernized by the growth of tourism.
- 旅游业的增长已经使这些岛屿西方化了。
牛津词典
- a westernized society
- 西方化了的社会
牛津词典
- Both publics seem to be bypassing each other to Westernize and modernize.
- 双方社会看起来都想绕过对方,使自己直接现代化和西方化.
期刊摘选
- I am afraid that it is not easy to completely Westernize 1.3 billion Chinese people.
- 把十三亿人完全西化恐怕是不容易的.
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中文词源
westernize 使西方化，欧美化
来自west,西方，用于指西方人，欧美人。
双语例句
- 1. Both publics seem to be bypassing each other to Westernize and modernize.
- 双方社会看起来都想绕过对方,使自己直接现代化和西方化.
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- 2. I am afraid that it is not easy to completely Westernize 1.3 billion Chinese people.
- 把十三亿人完全西化恐怕是不容易的.
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英文词源
- westernize (adj.)
- also westernise, 1837, originally in reference to the U.S. West, from western + -ize.
Emigrants from Europe have brought the peculiarities of the nations and countries from whence they have originated, but are fast losing their national manners and feelings, and, to use a provincial term, will soon become "westernized." [J.M. Peck, "A New Guide for Emigrants to the West," Boston, 1837]
In reference to Europeanizing of Middle Eastern or Asian places and persons, from 1867. Related: Westernized; westernizing.
词态变化
第三人称单数: westernizes;过去式: westernized;过去分词: westernized;现在分词: westernizing;形容词: westernized;