legitimize

英 [lɪˈdʒɪtəmaɪz]

美 [lɪˈdʒɪtəmaɪz]

v.  使(坏事或不正当的事)看起来可以接受; 使合法; 赋予(非婚生子)合法权利

过去分词：legitimized　过去式：legitimized　第三人称单数：legitimizes　现在分词：legitimizing　

IELTSTEM8

Collins.1 / BNC.23138 / COCA.11516

牛津词典

verb

• 使（坏事或不正当的事）看起来可以接受
  to make sth that is wrong or unfair seem acceptable
  1. The movie has been criticized for apparently legitimizing violence.
     这部电影因明显地美化暴力而受到了指责。
• 使合法
  to make sth legal
• 赋予（非婚生子）合法权利
  to give a child whose parents are not married to each other the same rights as those whose parents are

柯林斯词典

The spellings legitimise in British English, and legitimatize in American English are also used. 亦拼作legitimise（英国英语）和legitimatize（美国英语）。


• VERB 使（尤其是坏事）合法化；正式批准（或认可）；证明…为有理（或正当）
  Tolegitimizesomething, especially something bad, means to officially allow it, approve it, or make it seem acceptable.
  1. They will accept no agreement that legitimizes the ethnic division of the country...
     他们不会接受任何使国家民族分裂合法化的协议。
  2. Images which glorify violence and cruelty, serve to legitimise such behaviour.
     这些美化暴力和暴行的图片，就是要使此等行为合理化。

英英释义

verb

• make legal
  1. Marijuana should be legalized
  Synonym:legalizelegalisedecriminalizedecriminaliselegitimiselegitimatelegitimatizelegitimatise

双语例句

• Grails aims to address those concerns and legitimize rapid application development ( RAD) for the enterprise.
  Grails旨在解决那些关注点，并证明快速应用开发（RAD）对企业是可行的。
• And use gambling to legitimize it?
  用来赌博使之合法化？
• Those pre-conditions would apply that we wouldn't legitimize with a face to face meeting, a person like Ahmadinejad.
  而那些前提条件涉及我们不会以面对面的会议去合法化，类似于内贾德那样的人。
• They will accept no agreement that legitimizes the ethnic division of the country
  他们不会接受任何使国家民族分裂合法化的协议。
• While the US Constitution marks these programs as illegal, my government argues that secret court rulings, which the world is not permitted to see, somehow legitimize an illegal affair.
  虽然美国宪法将这样的项目列为非法，但美国政府认为，在世界不允许发现的、秘密法庭的裁决下，某种程度上可以使得这种非法的事情合法化。
• Contractor "Jack" wants the government to legitimize a critical labor force.
  承包商杰克希望政府使这部分重要的劳动力合法化。
• Especially in Egypt, it was intended to legitimize the privileged status of the Hellene relative to the "native" Egyptian.
  特别是在埃及，这是相对于“本土”埃及的人来说所拥有的特权地位。
• During the May Fourth Movement, tradition was not used as a knowledge resource to legitimize the political system, but began to change from a knowledge to an academic resource.
  透过《新青年》文本可知，五四一代关于传统的立场，主要体现在不把传统作为政治制度合法性的知识资源，传统也因此呈现由知识资源向学术资源的过渡。
• I'll be able to legitimize everything.
  我就能让任何东西变合法。
• Last year, Penguin became the first major trade press to go vanity: its Book Country e-imprint will legitimize your original genre fiction for just under$ 100.
  去年，企鹅成为第一家赶时髦的大型出版商：它旗下的书国电子印刷只需花费你不到一百美元就能正式出版你的原创类型小说。