galvanize
- vt. 鍍鋅;通電;刺激
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中文詞源
來自其發現者18世紀意大利解剖學家Luigi Galvanize用電流刺激青蛙腿發現該現象,后經改造并以其名命名的一種技術。
英文詞源
- galvanize
- galvanize: [19] The verb galvanize commemorates the work of Italian physicist Luigi Galvani (1737–98), who in 1762 discovered voltaic electricity by attaching the legs of dead frogs to pairs of different metals. It was first used literally, for the production of muscular spasms by electrical means (Sydney Smith in 1825: ‘Galvanize a frog, don’t galvanize a tiger’), but by the mid-19th century it was being employed figuratively, for ‘stimulate, spur’. The sense ‘coat electrolytically with metal’, dates from the 1830s.
- galvanize (v.)
- 1801, "stimulate by galvanic electricity," from French galvaniser, from galvanisme (see galvanism). Figurative sense of "excite, stimulate (as if by electricity)" first recorded 1853 (galvanic was in figurative use in 1807). Meaning "to coat with metal by means of galvanic electricity" (especially to plate iron with tin, but now typically to plate it with zinc) is from 1839.
He'll swear that in her dancing she cuts all others out,
Related: Galvanized; galvanizing.
Though like a Gal that's galvanized, she throws her legs about.
[Thomas Hood, "Love has not Eyes," 1845]
雙語例句
- 1. Still , the major countries have been unable to galvanize themselves into action.
- 他們很少或沒有與非國家行為者的聯系.
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- 2. How can we galvanize the students into studying hard?
- 我們怎么才能激勵學生努力學習?
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- 3. Will it galvanize this team in some way? Who knows?
- 這將會刺激這個球隊 嗎?
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- 4. Would democracy galvanize opposition to reforms?
- 民主會阻礙改革 嗎 ?
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- 5. To galvanize or plate ( metal ) by immersion.
- '電鍍'.''通過浸泡鍍涂金屬.
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