| 单词 | modernize |
| 释义 | mod·ern·ize transitive verb < a determination to modernize poetry, and bring it closer to life — F.R.Leavis > < the method of lumbering has been modernized — American Guide Series: Maine > as a. < modernize the theater > < the curse of many downtown districts … is the owner who refuses to modernize his building — Hal Burton > b. < has modernized it quite considerably, printing proper names in their modern form, correcting grammatical lapses, and inserting the equivalent of obsolete words in brackets — G.R.Crone > intransitive verb < it is natural … for scribes to modernize and for poets to archaize — C.A.Lynch > • mod·ern·iz·er |
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