Word · Frequency #41934
naturalize
授予…国籍；使入籍；归化
make (someone) a citizen of a country
- 1.
To grant citizenship to someone not born a citizen.
授予非本国出生者公民身份。
- 2.
To acclimatize an animal or plant.
使动植物适应新环境。
- 3.
To make natural.
使自然化。
- 4.
To limit explanations of a phenomenon to naturalistic ones and exclude supernatural ones.
将现象的解释限制为自然主义的,并排除超自然的。
- 5.
To make (a word) a natural part of the language, using the native homologue of each phoneme (and often for each morpheme) of the imported word (e.g., native inflections).
使(一个词)成为语言的自然部分,使用每个音素(通常还有每个语素)的本土对应物(例如,本土词尾变化)。
- 6.
To study nature.
研究自然。
移植；移养；使适应新环境；根据自然原因解释；使自然化；授予非本国出生者公民身份。；使动植物适应新环境。；使自然化。
In use
Many countries naturalize immigrants after a few years of legal residence.
She was naturalized as a citizen in 2019, so she can now vote in national elections.
The local government naturalized over a thousand people during yesterday's ceremony.
naturalize sb
表示授予国籍时通常用于被动或作为及物动词。
The government naturalized thousands of immigrants.
政府使数千名移民入籍。
naturalize sth in/into a place
常用于生物学或文化引入。
The botanist naturalized the plant in the new environment.
植物学家将这种植物移植到新环境中。
naturalize an idea/practice
指将外来事物本土化。
Connections
Confusing words
- nationalize
- 国有化 · naturalize 指授予国籍或移植，nationalize 指将私有财产收归国有，两者拼写相近但含义不同。
- natural
- 自然的 · naturalize 是动词，意为‘使归化’或‘移植’；natural 是形容词，意为‘自然的’，不可直接替换。
Word family
- naturalizes
- third person singular
- naturalized
- past, past participle
- naturalizing
- present participle
Learner notes
Grammar Note
通常及物动词
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