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To galvanize someone is to give them a shock of feeling — surprise, anger, fear, urgency — so that they stop sitting still and actually do something about a problem. News writing loves this word: a disaster galvanizes a city; a speech galvanizes voters. It is a little formal. It does not mean you send electricity through a person, though that picture is hiding inside the word, from the scientist Galvani. Though actually, the same spelling is also used for coating metal with zinc. This sense is about people and action, not about metal. British English often for the same verb.
激勵、刺激（使人立刻採取行動；偏正式、新聞用語）
組成English took this from French galvaniser (a learned borrowing). On the surface: galvano- + -ize. Named after the Italian scientist Luigi Galvani (1737–1798).
同家族的字
- galvanisethe same verb in British spelling
- galvanismelectricity named after the same scientist
- galvanizedthe -ed form; often zinc-coated metal
- galvanicthe adjective from the same Galvani name
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
galvanizeverb/ˈɡælvənaɪ̯z/
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datedTo coat with a layer of metal by electrochemical means.
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datedTo coat with a layer of metal by electrochemical means.
- We then galvanize the steel so that the zinc coating will sacrificially take the corrosion for many years.
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To shock or stimulate into sudden activity, as if by electric shock.
- The girl’s picture helped galvanize public opinion against the administration’s policy.
- Republicans are hoping a proposed gas-tax repeal will galvanize their voters.
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archaicTo electrify, as by galvanism.
- The agitations resembled the grinnings and writhings of a galvanized corpse, not the struggles of an athletic man.
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historicalTo switch sides between Union and Confederate in the American Civil War.
- Reenactors called this “galvanizing,” the Civil War term for soldiers who switched sides during the conflict.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。