modernise
美 ['m?d?na?z]
英 ['m?d?na?z] 
- v.使(制度、方法等)現代化;使(設備、概念等)現代化
- 網絡使現代化;現代愛情
英漢雙解
1. | [t] ~ sth 使(制度、方法等)現代化to make a system, methods, etc. more modern and more suitable for use at the present time |
| The company is investing $9 million to modernize its factories. 這家公司要投資 900 萬元將其工廠現代化。 |
2. | [i] 使(設備、概念等)現代化to start using modern equipment, ideas, etc. |
| Unfortunately we lack the resources to modernize. 遺憾的是我們缺乏現代化所需的財力。 |
英漢解釋
例句
Many doubted whether the King of Macao would be able to modernise a family empire accustomed to operating in a vacuum.
許多人懷疑,澳門賭王是否有能力使其習慣于在真空中經營的家族帝國實現現代化。
A decade ago a few brave souls tried to use the emerging power of the internet to modernise this fragmented and frustrating business.
大約十年前,一些勇敢的先行者嘗試利用新生的網絡力量來使這個支離破碎和令人沮喪的行業趕上現代化的班車。
Rapid economic growth and a desire to modernise agriculture is stimulating demand for pork and high-quality breeding pigs.
飛速增長的經濟以及實現農業現代化的強烈愿望,刺激著國內市場對豬肉及優質種豬的需求。
Such skills, however, do not mean that the newcomers will modernise the party or democratise Chinese politics.
但是,此類技能并不意味著這些新人將會對中國共产党進行現代化改造,或推動中國政治民主化。
One of the forgotten victims of the financial crash was the project to "modernise" the Tory party.
保守黨“現代化”的計劃成為在金融危機中被遺忘的一個犧牲品。
Thus discussion focused on different ways to modernise, but did not question the goal itself.
因此,討論的焦點是實現現代化的不同方式,而不是對這一目標本身的質疑。
As for Europe, it says that the bloc needs to sort out a common defence strategy and modernise its economy - arguments still made today.
談到歐洲,書中表示,該地區需要制定一個共同的防務戰略,并加快經濟現代化步伐,這些說法如今依然適用。
Over the next two decades appetite for metals is likely to double as China and India urbanise and modernise.
過去十年里,中國和印度兩國城市化和現代化過程,對金屬的需求增長了一倍。
It started with a plan to modernise and a determination to do so faster that ever before.
首先,中國制定了一項現代化計劃,并決心以前所未有的速度將其付諸實施。
Yes, Yes, a girl. But I can see that the world has changed, and one must. . . modernise.
是啊,是啊,我當時還是個姑娘。不過,我還能看到世界是變化了,一個人必須……現代化。
The state may be weak, but in his view society is strong, which both holds the place together and frustrates attempts to modernise it.
巴基斯坦國家可能很弱,但他認為巴基斯坦社會很強,這兩者把這個地方容納在一起,并挫敗了一切使之現代化的嘗試。
Another big idea, again offered with an envious eye to China, is to modernise America's creaking infrastructure.
一些人對中國抱著羨慕的眼光,產生了另一種想法,即更新美國岌岌可危的基礎設施。
He was not close to Barwick and felt he lacked the necessary business skills to modernise the organisation.
他和巴維克關系一般,覺得他缺少必要的商業技能來讓足總的組織結構更加現代化。
Shifting the rural population into big cities is the only way for the nation to modernise.
將農村人口轉移到城市中是中國實現現代化的唯一途徑。
Such a change would require the economy to modernise in many ways .
這樣的一個變化需要經濟從多個方面實現現代化。
Before the Arab spring his attempts to modernise the economy enriched a coterie of his cronies but did little for ordinary Syrians.
在阿拉伯之春開始以前,他經濟現代化的行動只是讓一小撮親信富了起來,敘利亞普通人所得甚少。
Dai lives are changing as towns get bigger and modernise, but the Water Splashing Festival is still celebrated by all.
猶豫城鎮的曠達及都市化,傣族的生活形態正逐漸改變,但大家仍會慶祝潑水節
Of course, much else must be done as well, notably to modernise China's primitive financial systems.
當然,還有很多其它工作要做,尤其是必須讓中國落后的金融體系實現現代化。
If it works, it would help to modernise the entire economy.
這項改革一旦實施起效,將有助于整體經濟的現代化進程。
Initiatives to modernise state schools and courts have stalled in the face of entrenched religious conservatives.
旨在建設現代化的國家學校和法院的舉措在一開始就在頑固的宗教保守派面前止步。
Default would not absolve it of the need to overhaul its institutions and modernise its economy.
即使真的違約,希臘也必須改革其各項制度,對其經濟進行現代化改造。
He urged the country to modernise the "primitive" Soviet-era economy with its reliance on oil and gas.
他敦促俄羅斯使還處于蘇聯時代、依靠石油和天然氣的“原始”經濟現代化。
Our local postmen appear to do a conscientious job but the organisation urgently needs to modernise and scrap archaic working practices.
我們本地的郵差看上去勤勤懇懇,但整個企業迫切需要施行現代化,摒棄陳舊的工作方式。
Perhaps the biggest cause of Latin America's low productivity is lack of credit that would allow businesses to expand and modernise.
可能造成拉丁美洲低生產力的最大原因是缺乏使企業擴張和實現現代化的貸款。
In the long term Mr Putin's refusal to modernise his country will weaken Russia.
長遠來看,普金拒絕將他的國家現代化的做法將削弱俄羅斯的實力。
Indeed, the billions of euros flooding from Brussels to modernise infrastructure and public services often prove a fount of corruption.
的確,過去從布魯塞爾涌入的用于現代化與基礎服務項目建設的數十億歐元正是腐敗之源。
The argument centres on a deal struck in 2007 to modernise the company.
此次爭論的焦點在于2007年那次為推進郵政公司現代化所達成的協議。
The Labour government of Tony Blair wanted to modernise the EMRS used by the National Health Service in England and Wales.
托尼?布萊爾領導的工黨曾試圖在英格蘭和威爾士推廣國民健康保險制度使用的電子病歷。
But Hogg counters: "Our aim is to modernise and globalise traditional Chinese medicine. "
但是霍格回應說:“我們的目的是實現傳統中藥現代化和全球化。”
Do something first, something that would illustrate your readiness to modernise the country and move it forward.
請先拿出行動來,以行動證明您可以使國家走向現代化,推動國家前進。
And it will up to the player to modernise, improve and build up their army.
它將最多的球員,現代化,改善和建立自己的軍隊。
A report by the IMF in March detailed Iran's plans to extend VAT and to modernise the tax system more broadly.
國際貨幣基金組織3月公布的一項報告詳細地陳述了伊朗拓寬增值稅和建設覆蓋面更廣的現代化稅收體制的計劃。
Without proper political competition, Russia is destined to waste its resources and cannot modernise.
沒有適當的政治競爭,俄羅斯注定將浪費它的資源,也無法實現現代化。
Ashraf Ghani, a former Afghan finance minister, argues that the real answer is not to find alternative crops but to modernise the economy.
前阿富汗財政部長甘尼(AshrafGhani)認為,真正的回答并非尋找替代作物,而是使經濟現代化。
One is a failure to modernise European armies for expeditionary operations; the other is a failure of political will.
首先是歐洲國家軍隊現代化程度不足以應付這次遠征行動;其次是缺乏政治決心。
In a bid to modernise an opaque legal system, it introduced juries in 2008, restricted to trials for the most serious crimes.
為了使不透明的司法系統現代化,2008年韓國在極其嚴重的犯罪案件審理中引入了陪審團制。
With Mr Medvedev watching from the sidelines, Mr Putin pledged to tackle inflation, cut oil taxes and modernise the economy.
梅德韋杰夫列席出席了該會議,普京承諾將控制通脹、降低原油稅,并讓俄羅斯經濟實現現代化。
Mr Guriev suggests that the reason Russia has failed to modernise is that its ruling class can pocket rents from things as they are.
Guriev表示俄羅斯之所以無法現代化是因為其統治階層可以輕松地進行權力尋租。
China, the world's main producer of traditional and herbal medicines, has launched an international project to modernise the sector.
作為世界上主要的傳統醫藥生產國,中國于本周二啟動了一項國際大科學合作項目,即中醫藥現代化國際計劃。
But their cash and know-how could help modernise Indian farming and move crops faster from fields to shopping baskets.
但超市所帶來的現金流和運營訣竅會給印度的農業現代化帶來幫助,并且能使農作物更快地從農田進入人們的菜籃子中。