civilize

Ngoại động từ

làm cho văn minh, truyền bá văn minh, khai hoá, giáo hoá

to civilize away

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* Các từ tương tự:
civilize, civilise, civilized, civilised, civilizer

verb

also Brit civilise -lizes; -lized; -lizing

[+ obj] to teach (a person or group of people) to behave in a way that you think is more polite and gentle

to make (something) more gentle, fair, reasonable, etc.

to cause (a group of people) to have a more highly organized and modern way of living

* Các từ tương tự:
civilized

verb

Civilized people do not behave in such a boorish way

The claim that they civilized the Aborigines means only that they forced them to conform to the White man's notion of civilization

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