| 词汇 | example_english_civilize |
| 释义 | Examples of civilizeThese 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. In other words, the 'imperial order' has existed in non-western areas, where most of those nations were not recognized as civilized throughout the nineteenth century. They do not merely speak for a straightforward attempt to make the civilizing power of science operative in the reader's mind. There is an acceptance within the text that increasingly the local state took control over the civilizing mission previously exercised by a ubiquitous voluntary sector. Various "civilized" measures to suppress differences and heterogeneity in the use of space were only provoking resistive spatial practices among the residents. A prime target, not surprisingly, is the ubiquitous and mostly condescending celebration of women for their "civilizing" influence on men. The fundamental distinction between civilized and barbarian nations meant that while this perceived society was international, in no sense was it global. Their task was to convince doubting officials that they, too, could be counted as agents of civilizing progress. The myth portrayed the transformation of a violent abduction into the civilized social alliance sanctioned by the marriage bond. The professional architects of the time were also enthusiastic about taking part in this process as civilizing agents. Because they think that it is for people that are not civilized. The great healing effect of publicity is that by revealing men's motives it civilizes them. Given this human/animal boundary, it was only a guided rational approach that could make the boy fully civilized and therefore fully human. Because of its antiquity, its unpredictability and its global presence, the disease found a prominent place in the colonial civilizing mission. Let us say that a subset of a topological space is civilized if it is closed, has only finitely many components, and each of its components is path-connected. The alien is revealed to be merely a lost, primitive version of the familiar, and imperial power flows less from civilizing the savage than from reviving the inner barbarian. As civic authority slowly established itself with government encouragement and the guano boom, the walls served as protection for the civilizing city from the barbaric bandits outside. Clothes, manners and the consumption of beauty were not enough for him now that civilisation had become much more connected to the bodies of those who were considered ' naturally' civilized. At once material and aesthetic, food works to delineate a range of categories: cultural, class, and gender difference, the boundaries between children and adults, savage and civilized, animal and human. We want progress towards a greater equality of return; we see this as a broadly civilizing tendency in modern society. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Leaving the task of civilizing his people to his son, he gathers together a band of old comrades to sail beyond the sunset. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The arbitration devices of the academic world for coping with such rivalries were hardly yet available to 'civilize' the geologists. French policy was predicated on civilizing the country. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. He knocks her out and returns home with her, restrains her in a cellar, and directs his family to participate in civilizing her. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. We are always aware of our work as potentially 'sanitizing' - bringing art in to 'civilize' a space and 'reveal' its hidden aesthetic qualities. Despite the lack of a formal legal distinction between town and village, the municipal administration clearly exists to organize the urban environment and to "civilize" its inhabitants. The city had, in a sense, created a colony, separate from itself, to exploit and civilize the land beyond its boundaries, with the ultimate goal of sending settlers there. Yes, "[a]rmies are required to conquer nations," but "a moral sentiment alone is required to civilize and to save them:" "[h]ere woman's mission reveals itself" (94). Cities tried to keep the proletarians out or tried to civilize them by forcing them to work in poor houses. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Secondly he wanted to civilize them into an agricultural or more urbanized lifestyles. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. With the same noble purpose, to educate and civilize the people, he wrote many essays as well as booklets for children. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. He was convinced of the arts' importance (theatre particularly) as instrument for to civilize and to do to progress to the nations. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Rural people participated in the war to demonstrate their physical strengths rather than because they wanted to civilize the country. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. He proposes that colonization, while claiming to civilize the colonies, actually produces the opposite effect, refuting the claims of positive aspects of colonialism. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Now it was time to civilize our inner being. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. After the wolves announce plans "to civilize" the rabbits if they don't stop causing natural disasters, the rabbits decide to flee to an island. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Doro feels the need to civilize her when he brings her to the new world. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The elite justified their position and control as those whose responsibility it was to civilize the masses. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Even courtly writers recognized the civic and rhetorical traditions that made cities the ideal symbols of the civilizing achievements of eloquence, law, and religion. In the race this is the original social and psychological trauma which makes civilized society possible and which produces as its embodiment totemic religion. Is it a coincidence that thoughtless crimes (or ones that we consider thoughtless) are not the ones that civilized people relish ? Accordingly, these stories demonstrate outright skepticism of the empire's civilizing mission. He finds that contemporary differences between races put them in an evolutionary series from the primitive and savage to the advanced and civilized. A country that was civilized possessed a sense of nationhood, and as such displayed the political (and moral) capacity for self-determination. Thus, for this young woman menosprecio associated with lower-class people, markedly indigenous, who are 'not civilized'. Discussions are civilized affairs: verbal interchanges between contending parties reveal that a mistake has been made that needs to be corrected. Under these social circumstances, the advent of courtly love had a remarkably civilizing effect on feudal society. I (and we) have lost not only a friend, but an exceptionally civilized and highly cultured person. Many people believe that there are schoolrooms and football grounds where civilized order is forever on the verge of breaking down. Contrary to our knowledge today, this last was considered to be less civilized than the bronze age that preceded it. The imperial, civilizing values of the age seemed under threat, brazenly challenged and on metropolitan stages too. The farther away a vassal was from the central square, the less civilized he was considered to be. We are still dealing with an urban middle class project of reform-a civilizing mission-in which gender issues are central. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. 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