英汉解释

vt. 使文明；教化；使开化
vi. 变得文明

同义词

v. civilise，cultivate，educate，school

参考例句

1. Schools will help to civilize the wild tribes there.
学校教育将有助于使那里的野蛮部落逐步开化。
2. Those facilities are intended to civilize people.
那些设施的目的在于教化民众。
3. The governor of Rome wanted to civilize all the civilians by education.
罗马的统治者想要通过教育来教化全罗马的公民。

英英解释

v.
  1. train to be discriminative in taste or judgment
  2. raise from a barbaric to a civilized state

网络释义

Civilize
教育; 使开化; 文明化; 使文明;
civilize vt
使文明，使开化;
civilize domesticate educate humanize moralise moralize
教化;