| 英语单词 | revolutionize |
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| 英美音标 | 英 [ˌrevə'luːʃənaɪz] 美 [ˌrevə'luːʃənaɪz] |
| 中文释义 | v.彻底变革;使革命化 =revolutionise(英). |
| 英语例句 | (1) The use of atomic energy will revolutionize the lives of coming generations. |
| 中文例句 | (1) 原子能的使用将使人类未来的生活有革命性的变化。 |
| vocabulary简明 | Revolutionize, a verb, means "to make a major change," like in the 1990s, when the Internet revolutionized how people communicated, got information and even did their jobs. Things were never the same again. |
| vocabulary扩展 | Use revolutionize to describe something that is completely transformed. Originally, it meant "to bring about sweeping political change," like people who band together and fight to revolutionize a nation, with the end result being a new party in power or new philosophies about things like land ownership or tax collection put in place. In time, it also came to mean even nonpolitical change, like the digital music player, which revolutionized how people get and listen to music. |
| 柯林斯解释 | in BRIT, also use 英国英语亦用 revolutionise 1 [VERB 动词]使发生巨大变革;给…带来革命性剧变 When something revolutionizes an activity, it causes great changes in the way that it is done. [V n]
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