| 单词 | anglicize |
| 释义 | anglicize (once / 28075 pages) v To anglicize something is to change it so that it appears to be more English. Immigrants to the United States sometimes anglicize their names so they're more familiar to English-speaking Americans. If you anglicize your house, you might decorate it in the style of a British tea room, and if you anglicize your Polish name, you make it sound less Polish and more English. Throughout history, places that were colonized by England were forced to anglicize many of their place names — one example is Kolkata, India, which was anglicized to "Calcutta" and changed back in 2001. Anglicize comes from the Latin root Angli, or "the English." WORD FAMILYanglicize: anglicized, anglicizes, anglicizing USAGE EXAMPLESOn the one hand, it has made the Anglicizing of international communications ever more unstoppable. The New Yorker(Oct 24, 2016) He called the device “barbacoa,” an approximation of the pronunciation of the indigenous Taino people, and the word was later anglicized. Washington Post(Feb 22, 2016) It didn't last long and Ching, who these days uses the Anglicized version of her family name Ng, returned Down Under. US News(Jan 13, 2016) v make English in appearance Syn|Hyper anglicise accommodate, adapt make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose |
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