| 释义 |
nationalize, v.|ˈnæʃənəlaɪz|
Also -ise.
[f. national a. + -ize, or ad. F. nationaliser (1794 in Hatz.-Darm.).]
1. trans. To invest with a national character; to make distinctively national.
1800Hist. Eur. in Ann. Reg. 35/2 We wish to nationalize the republic, they to establish only their own party. 1843Blackw. Mag. LIV. 26 ‘Rule Britannia’,..now become a national song... Long before it was nationalized—if one may use such a word—by Englishmen [etc.]. 1851Gallenga Italy 59 The very government of the Lombardo-Venetian kingdom might be..nationalized. 1870Lowell Among my Bks. Ser. i. (1873) 226 He took what may be called cosmopolitan traditions,..and nationalized them.
b. To make into a separate nation; to invest with the character of a nation.
1801F. Ames Wks. (1809) 142 New-England..of all colonies that ever were founded the largest, the most assimilated, and, to use the modern jargon, nationalized.
2. To naturalize; to admit into, or make part of, a nation. Also refl.
1809N. Pinkney Trav. France 41 There are many resident English, who have been nationalized by express edict. 1861M. Pattison Ess. (1889) I. 32 Only Jutes, Angles, Saxons, and Danes..have succeeded in nationalizing themselves here.
b. intr. To become naturalized.
1891Sat. Rev. 4 July 1/2 The curious plan of keeping Russia for the Russians by forcing all foreign ‘colonists’ to nationalize or quit.
3. To bring under the control of, to convert into the property of, the nation.
1869Daily News 21 Oct., It was ‘Bosh’ to talk of nationalising the land to starving thousands. 1874Fawcett Pol. Econ. ii. xi. (1876) 299 After the land and the other instruments of production have been nationalised. 1881Brodrick Eng. Land & Landlords 105 It is a perfectly intelligible proposition that all the land in the kingdom ought to be ‘nationalized’.
Hence ˈnationalized, ˈnationalizing ppl. adjs.
1836G. S. Faber Prim. Doctr. Election (1842) 189 That Neither the Arminian System, nor the Nationalising System, nor the Calvinistic System, exhibits the mind of the sincere Gospel. 1856Max Müller Chips (1880) II. xvi. 13 An age..exhibiting to us the earliest traces of nationalised language. 1874Fawcett Pol. Econ. ii. xi. (1876) 286 Is not a reduction in rent the chief advantage which the advocates of this nationalising policy hope to secure? 1885J. Robson Disestablishment 16 So too..it would be in the Nationalised Church of Scotland. |