| 词汇 | humanize |
| 释义 | humanize verb[ T ] (UK usuallyhumanise)uk /ˈhjuː.mə.naɪz/ us /ˈhjuː.mə.naɪz/ to make something less unpleasant and more suitable for people: 使…人性化 Steps are being taken to humanize the prison.正在采取措施使监狱更加人性化。 to show that someone has the qualities, weaknesses, etc. that are typical of a human, in a way that makes you more likely to feel sympathy for them: The film tries to humanize the gang members, who show touches of tenderness despite their ruthless exploits. Opposite dehumanize to make something that is not human seem like a person, or to treat something that is not human as if it is a person: To gain support from Congress, they humanized the company. This architect knows how to humanize modern buildings. They were able to humanize the impersonal Internet. The liberal arts humanize people. That's why you teach them. The loss humanized her, making her seem less robotic and showing she could be graceful in defeat. If we humanize the cat to the extent where we start to give it human medication, we may be hurting it when we are trying to be kind. Making things better add salt to somethingidiom allay alleviate alleviation ameliorate cultivate liven (something) up lubricate make a differenceidiom make a world of differenceidiom make someone/something over remedial restructure revamp revitalize revivify revolutionize salve sharpen tonic You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Sympathy & compassion Behaving, interacting and behaviour Related wordhumanization humanize | American Dictionaryhumanize verb[ T ] us/ˈhju·məˌnɑɪz/ to make someone or something kinder, gentler, or more agreeable: If people were just a little more courteous, it would humanize this city a lot. Examples of humanizehumanize Their narratives on building gender and class identity both materialize and humanize the analysis of research data. In nonviolent fashion, this will both defeat the repetitions of the machine and humanize the worker. The elephant continued to be humanized, at least in part because of the culture of putting beasts in cages. Correspondingly less and less is devoted to humanized care. Other "organization as machine" or "organization as process" metaphors were humanized during this period. It is a credo that runs through his life's work: music must stir up, awaken consciousness and conscience, socialise, humanize. It is at least possible that the spread of globalization and of market interactions may eventually lead to greater humanizing tendencies. Prevention of severe infection in high-risk infants is achieved through immunoprophylaxis with specific antibody-containing preparations, especially humanized, murine monoclonal antibody (palivizumab). In the same way, the (humanizing) immigrant metaphor organizes our view of the sparrow. The effectiveness of metaphors both naturalizing and humanizing relies on the existence of common assumptions about the object of comparison. I think it humanizes them in a different sort of way. Arguably, the sheer number of towns, their independence and their small size all played a part in humanizing industrialization. While the first generations of scholarly endeavors of all awakening peoples strive to humanize the language, subsequent generations are concerned with purifying their language of the unsuccessful scholastic elements. Surely the threat to human dignity, if there is such a threat, would be all the more significant with efforts to "humanize" our more distant nonhuman relatives? Globalization, even if predominantly through the growth of market relations, can help to familiarize and therefore to humanize people who would otherwise feel no connection to one another. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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