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To polarize people is to divide them into clearly separate groups with opposite beliefs, ideas, or opinions, or to make them do that. A new law can polarize voters almost overnight; social media can polarize friends who used to agree. The image is two pulling apart, though actually everyday English almost always means a social or political split, not a science lesson. American spelling is polarize; British spelling is . The noun is polarization (American) or polarisation (British). It is a strong, rather formal news-and-essay verb, not a casual word for make more interesting.
使兩極化
組成From French polariser; in English it is polar + the verb ending -ize.
同家族的字
- polarisethe same verb in British spelling
- polarizationthe noun for the split
- polarthe shared first piece, as in opposite poles
原始詞典資料2 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。
polarizeverb/ˈpəʊ.lə.ɹaɪz/
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To cause to have a polarization.
- To polarize, and indeed, to artificially distinguish between the secular and the religious is to dismiss the inarguable Judeo-Christian foundation of contemporary secular institutions.
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To cause a group to be divided into extremes.
- The deal has polarized Twitter employees, users, and regulators over the power tech giants wield in determining the parameters of acceptable discourse on the internet and how those companies enforce their rules.
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。