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To radicalize people is to push them toward new and different ideas, especially ideas about complete social and political change — so they start to accept those ideas, or to want them. You can radicalize a person or a group. News and use this word a lot. Today it often has a dark feel: people talk about someone being radicalized online, meaning they were pulled into extreme political or religious ideas. The older, plainer sense is simply “make more radical.” British spelling is often radicalise.
使激進化；使變得激進
組成From radical + -ize. Radical is the idea; -ize means “make into” or “cause to become.”
同家族的字
- radicalradicalize is radical + -ize
- radicalismsame radical stem, with -ism
- radicallysame radical stem, with -ly
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。
radicalizeverb/ˈɹædɪkəlaɪz/
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To make radical.
- The goal of the Cultural Revolution was to radicalize the whole society, to create mass participation at all levels of decision-making, and to restore the revolutionary élan of the 1940s.
- Described by witnesses as a keen cricketer and pubgoer until contacts with Islamic militants radicalized him on a trip to Pakistan, he was ordered to serve at least 14 years for the plot, and for supplying militants in Afghanistan with money and equipment.
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To become radical; to adopt a radical political stance.
- He’s a delight and provides a little break in one’s timeline between heart-stopping political developments, at least until he himself radicalizes, which is bound to happen soon, because he is a French bulldog.
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。