1. And the mission to civilise that was the colonial kind of project is now a mission to civilise France's own population. 文明化工程在过去本是殖民性质的工程,可现在它却成了教化法国自己人口的工程。
2. Thousands of Aboriginal children were forcibly removed from their families and raised by whites in a government policy to "civilise" them. 按照政府“教化”土著居民的政策,成千上万的土著孩子曾被强行从家中带走并交由白人抚养。
英英解释
v.
1. train to be discriminative in taste or judgment
2. raise from a barbaric to a civilized state