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To revolutionize something is to change it so deeply that the old way almost does not count any more. A new machine can revolutionize a factory; a new idea can revolutionize how doctors think about a disease.
To revolutionize something使某件事發生革命性的改變， to change it so deeply就是把它改變得如此徹底， that the old way almost does not count any more使得舊的做法幾乎不再算數。 A new machine一台新機器 can revolutionize可能徹底改變 a factory一間工廠； a new idea一個新想法 can revolutionize可能徹底改變 how doctors think about a disease醫生看待一種疾病的方式。
News and advertising love this word, and they stretch it: a slightly better phone is not a revolution, though a company may still say it revolutionizes your life.
News and advertising新聞和廣告 love this word很愛用這個字， and they stretch it而且會把它用得誇張： a slightly better phone一支稍微好一點的手機 is not a revolution並不是什麼革命， though a company may still say不過廠商還是可能會說 it revolutionizes your life它徹底改變了你的生活。
Though actually, it does not mean “to start a street revolt.” That is revolt, or start a revolution. This word is about a complete change in how people work or think.
Though actually不過其實， it does not mean它不是指 "to start a street revolt."「上街發動暴動」。 That is那就是 revolt暴動， or start a revolution或發動革命。 This word這個字 is about講的是 a complete change in how people work or think人們做事或想事情方式的徹底改變。
British spelling often revolutionise; both spellings are the same word.
British spelling often writes英式拼法常寫成 revolutionise這個字； both spellings are the same word兩種拼法其實是同一個字。
組成revolution（革命；徹底的大轉變）+ -ize（「使成為、使發生」）。
同家族的字
- revolutionthe noun this verb is built from
- revolutionarythe adjective from the same noun
- revoltshares the same “turn over / rise up” family, but revolt is the fighting word
原始詞典資料1 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。
revolutionizeverb/ˌɹɛv.əˈl(j)uː.ʃəˌnaɪz/
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To radically or significantly change, as in a revolution.
- Teachers are not simply wage earners who teach students, but revolutionaries bringing up the future builders of socialism. For this reason, we are working hard to help teachers acquire advanced science and technology and to revolutionize and working-classize them.
- For Joseph Schumpeter, the Austrian-born economist whose writings have acquired a special relevance in the past year or two, this most modern of economic systems “incessantly revolutionizes the economic structure from within, incessantly destroying the old one, incessantly creating a new one.”
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。