modernise
['mɔdənaiz]
v. （使）现代化
=modernize（美）
例句与用法：
If the industry doesn't modernize it will not survive.
该制造业若不现代化就不能继续存在。
【英】=modernize
modernise
modernise['mɔdənaiz]vt.,vi.1.■[英国英语] =modernize变形vt.,vi.modernisedmodernising
modernise
动词 modernise:
become technologically advanced
make repairs, renovations, revisions or adjustments to
modernise
■"If a country wishes to modernise, not only should it implement a market economy, it must also adopt a parliamentary democracy as its political system.
"“假如一个国家想要现代化，它不仅要实行市场经济，也必须必须采用议会制作为其政治制度。
■"We are helping Shanghai asas possible to modernise the market," Mr Tsang said.
"正在尽力帮助上海股市实现现代化，"曾荫权表示。"
■'The only reason to hike up the price of a stamp is because Royal Mail has failed to modernise as a business,' he said.
'的唯一原因了邮票的价格上涨，是因为英国皇家邮政没有现代化作为一个企业，'他说。
■s New Deal is the network of dams that stud the Tennessee River valley, built to provide work and to modernise a backward corner of America during the Great Depression.
75年后，在大西洋的对岸，工作机会再次萎缩，一个经济体需要现代化。
■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表示俄罗斯之所以无法现代化是因为其统治阶层可以轻松地进行权力寻租。
■"We are helping Shanghai as much as possible to modernise the market," Mr Tsang said. "There are two different markets.
“我们正在尽力帮助上海股市实现现代化，”曾荫权表示。
■To modernise the regulatory regime for the securities and futures market, the Securities and Futures Bill was introduced into the Legislative Council in November 2000.
《证券及期货条例草案》于二零零零年十一月提交立法会审议，以革新证券及期货的规管架构。
■A bill to modernise unemployment insurance has already passed the House of Representatives, though it languishes in the Senate.
一个让失业保险更符合现况的法案已经送到众议院，虽然它在参议院遇到困难。
■China's push to modernise its creaking railway system, which is being increasingly strained by breakneck economic growth, has attracted many international firms, including Germany's Siemens AG.
中国叽叽喳喳的铁路系统，严重的制约了经济的增长。中国对铁路的现代化的推动，引起了包括德国西门子AG在内的国际大公司的注意。
■In a bid to modernise an opaque legal system, it introduced juries in 2008, restricted to trials for the most serious crimes.
为了使不透明的司法系统现代化，2008年韩国在极其严重的犯罪案件审理中引入了陪审团制。
■9.Also this week he told French ambassadors to go out and tell the world that he is determined to modernise France and efface its image as rigid and protectionist.
也是在这周，他告诉法国的大使们到世界各国向全世界宣讲他推进法国现代化的决心，并淡化法国顽固不化和贸易保护主义的固有形象。
■Amsterdam will modernise unless it becomes clear that the metro is technically impossible, which he doubts.“The moment the metro is finished, people will use it and love it,” Mr Herrema predicts.
事故调查小组表示，施工工程是不合标准的，并认为只有在地表结冰的时候才能施工（这无疑会增加成本）。
■They attempted in vain to modernise these antiquated industries.
他们企图使这些陈旧的工业现代化,结果劳而无功。
■They decided not to modernise the Victorian decor.
他们决定不对维多利亚时代的装潢进行现代派的改变。
■He was not close to Barwick and felt he lacked the necessary business skills to modernise the organisation.
他和巴维克关系一般，觉得他缺少必要的商业技能来让足总的组织结构更加现代化。
■But Brussels and Washington, DC, remain the twin regulators of the global economy; that means they have as big an interest in co-operating to modernise the rules as in competing to impose their own standards.
但是布鲁塞尔和华盛顿在全球经济上保持着两大孪生规则制定者的身份；这意味着在更新规则的合作上他们有着巨大利益，这些规则用来在竞争中使别人接受他们自己的标准。
■Western (and, indeed, Japanese) imperialists used it in the early 20th century to justify their "missions" to "civilise" or "modernise" the natives.
但是用民族来划分国籍确是含糊不清甚至危险的，不仅仅因为这会让所有的少数民族孤立无援。
■In the days of Michael Milken and Drexel Burnham Lambert in the 1980s, junk bonds helped reshape and modernise corporate America, no matter how unpopular they were at the time.
在九十年代MichaelMilkenandDrexelBurnhamLambert在的时候，不论垃圾债券在当时有多么得令人反感，但它们的确帮助美国的公司转型和达到现代化。
■On the strategic level you can create new ships and aircraft, modernise and repair old ones, transport cargo, and store resources.
在战略的层次上你能生产新的船和飞机,更新且修理旧的,运送货物,而且储存资源。
■A decade ago a few brave souls tried to use the emerging power of the internet to modernise this fragmented and frustrating business.
大约十年前，一些勇敢的先行者尝试利用新生的网络力量来使这个支离破碎和令人沮丧的行业赶上现代化的班车。
■Mr Odinga wants to build more roads and modernise Kenya's railways.
奥廷加先生想为肯尼亚建造更多的公路，并让肯尼亚的铁路实现现代化。
■If the orange coalition fails to modernise and reform Ukraine, it would betray those who three years ago helped stage the orange revolution in the snow of Kiev.
如果橙色联盟无法改革乌克兰并让乌克兰走向现代化，那么该政党就有负那些在三年前不顾基辅动荡局势而发起橙色革命的人。
■And it will up to the player to modernise, improve and build up their army.
它将最多的球员，现代化，改善和建立自己的军队。
■The Chinese defence minister visited just before the elections to agree to modernise Kenya's armed forces.
就在大选之前，中国国防部长访问了肯尼亚并赞同使肯尼亚的军队现代化。
■President Sarkozy has been speaking of the need to reform and modernise the Common Agriculture Policy (CAP) and Alain fears that if reform touches his sheep farm, he will be out of business.
总统Sarkozy先生曾谈及共同农业政策有改革及现代化的必要，这让Alain担心要是改革关系到他的养羊场，他将会面临失业的问题。
■We need not have to learn from the Japanese designers modern ideas to modernise Japanese style.
我们不一定要学日本设计师的现代风格，把他们一些日式风格贯入现代建筑。
■We work continually with industry to modernise equipment and provide the front line with the capabilities required.
我们始终坚持与工业界合作，提供前线所需的能力。”
■We are helping Shanghai as much as possible to modernise the market， Mr Tsang said.
我们正在尽力帮助上海股市实现现代化，曾荫权表示。
■The report urges countries to repair and modernise irrigation systems and use better drip-fed farming.
报告敦促各国修葺和现代化灌溉系统，使用更好的滴灌农业。
■The government has announced an ambitious programme to modernise the railway network.
政府宣布了一项高要求的计划,使铁路网现代化。
■Politicians have earmarked billions of dollars for the development of unmanned ground vehicles, which are a key component of the “Future Combat Systems” programme to modernise the armed forces.
政治家们已经专拨了数十亿美元用于发展地面无人驾驶车辆，这是“未来作战系统（FutureCombatSystems）”计划的一个关键组成部分。该计划目的是使军队实现现代化。
■The new pit is a response to the IPE's efforts to modernise.
新开张的交易所回应了伦敦国际石油交易所进行的现代化努力。
■Initiatives to modernise state schools and courts have stalled in the face of entrenched religious conservatives.
旨在建设现代化国家学校和法院的举措在一开始就在顽固的宗教保守派面前止步。
■Had Morgan, a specialist maker of old-fashioned,hand-built sports cars, taken his advice to modernise and expand, it would havegone bust in the recession of the early 1990s.
曾经推出跑车的老式汽车专业制造商摩根公司，当时若是听从他的现代化和扩大规模的建议，估计会在1990年代早期的经济衰退中破产。
■At last, it seemed, here was a leader who could modernise the French Socialists.
最后，看起来，她是一个能使法国社会党变得现代化的领袖。
■Since then, America has constantly called on European armies to modernise themselves, but progress has been slow.
此后，美国就不断呼吁欧洲各国要使他们的军队现代化，但是进展缓慢。
■After all, nearly two decades ago when he himself was a baron in the LDP, he first launched the debate about how Japan should modernise long before the political establishment was thinking about it.
毕竟在约20年前（当时小泽在自民党里算是一个有权力的人），他首先挑起关于日本该如何现代化的争论，这比当权者开始思考这个问题的时间要早得多。
■Education under Pressure To Modernise: The Challenges of Structural Change, New Educational Ambitions and Globalisation
现代化压力下的教育:面临新的教育结构、新的教育目标和全球化
■At present, they are torn between those who seek to “modernise” Islam and those who prefer to “Islamise” modernity.
现在，他们在该追求“现代化伊斯兰”还是“伊斯兰现代化”之间摇摆不定。
■The investment comes as China seeks to modernise a fragmented dairy-related industry whose reputation was badly dented following last year's melamine scandal.
目前，中国正寻求让国内分散的乳制品行业走向现代化，在去年发生三聚氰胺丑闻后，该行业的声誉受到严重打击。
■The first option has its logic: why let a repressive, demeaning system modernise itself slowly?
第一种选择有着其道理：为什么让一个压抑、堕落的体系拖慢了其现代化进程?
■America dislikes any idea of EU arms helping China modernise its army, since American troops might one day be on the wrong end of such lethal toys, in a fight over Taiwan.
美国因为担心在台海战争中受攻击，而不喜欢任何关于中国用欧洲武器实现军队现代化的想法。
■From the day when he was elected in May, promising a rupture with the past to modernise France, Mr Sarkozy was always likely to face a showdown with the unions.
萨科齐总统在今年五月当选为法国总统，并承诺要与过去决裂以实现法国的现代化；自从那时，萨科齐总统就可能陷入与各大工会摊牌的境地。
■China's military budget has soared in recent years, as the authorities attempt to modernise forces that boast vast numbers of troops, but saw relatively low investment in equipment in the 1990s.
近年来，中国的军费预算持续攀升，这是中国政府决心实现军队现代化的结果。中国拥有大量的军队，但在1990年代，中国的军事装备投资却处在相对较低水平。
■Such a change would require the economy to modernise in many ways.
这一转变需要经济在许多方面现代化。
■The dispute is about the absolutely urgent need to modernise.
这场争论是关于亟待解决的邮政现代化的问题。”
■The company is caught in a double bind.If it doesn't modernise it won't make money, but if it does modernise they'll have to make people redundant because they won't need them any more.
这家公司进退两难。不实行现代化就无法盈利,要实行现代化就会有冗员,因为公司将不再需要他们。
■It could help to modernise the entire Chinese financial system,” he said.
这将有助于整个中国金融体系的现代化进程。”
■that means they have as big an interest in co-operating to modernise the rules as in competing to impose their own standards.
这意味着在更新规则的合作上他们有着巨大利益，这些规则用来在竞争中使别人接受他们自己的标准。
■This is not to suggest it cannot or should not modernise sustainably.
这篇文章水平相当高，生动，而不失理性。