- 1徹底改變、帶來革命性的改變（不是「發動革命、上街造反」）
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. 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. 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. British spelling often revolutionise; both spellings are the same word.
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，摘錄並精簡格式，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/
- 1
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.”
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。