Definition of naturalize in English:

naturalize

(British naturalise)

verb ˈnatʃ(ə)rəlʌɪzˈnætʃ(ə)rəˌlaɪz

[with object]

1Admit (a foreigner) to the citizenship of a country.
接受（侨民）入籍，使入籍
he was born in a foreign country and had never been naturalized
他出生于国外，从未被接受入籍。
Example sentencesExamples
- Why hasn't he taken the plunge and become naturalized and enabled himself to be in a better position to do something about this by voting?
- We were born there but one of the previous generations must have got naturalised.
- ‘Some foreign spouses who need this kind of financial assistance may not qualify because they have yet to be naturalized as Taiwanese citizens,’ Lin said.
- Under the law, ethnic minorities who want an SAR passport must first become naturalised Chinese citizens.
- They settled all over Britain, becoming naturalised British citizens of the Roman Empire, erecting a wealth of inscriptions which attest to their assimilation and prosperity.
- Locke was not the first naturalized foreigner to serve in the Taiwan military.
- But, as far as NASA is concerned, someone naturalised yesterday is just fine.
- She is the first naturalised American citizen to win the much-coveted National Book Critics Circle Award.
- I accept that many Filipinos naturalized elsewhere retain their sentimental ties to the mother country and share their income and good fortune with their relatives.
- The citizenship clause declares that anyone born or naturalized in the US is a citizen of the United States and of whatever state they reside in.
- Come Australia Day, the family of five will officially call Australia home when they are naturalised at the citizenship ceremony to be held at the Aquarena.
- Asians have generally opted to become naturalized citizens rather than permanent resident aliens in the U.S., if they are able to meet the requirements.
- Chan told Lee that many Indians and Pakistanis living in Hong Kong were finding it hard to get naturalised.
- To state more in detail, Chin Gempin was naturalized as a Japanese subject in 1659 and died in 1671.
- The United States defended its right to naturalize foreigners and rejected Britain's claim that it could legitimately practice impressment on the high seas.
- Kozeny was naturalised as an Irish citizen in 1995 under the Rainbow Coalition in return for investment in an Irish software company.
- He is a man who was born in Ireland, but who became naturalized as a Thai citizen 27 years ago.
- The remaining 400,000 have become naturalized Japanese citizens.
- Certainly, many immigrants who have been naturalised as British citizens wear their citizenship lightly.
- In fact, we recently naturalized a person who was a terrorist.
- Each state then set its own standards for naturalizing new citizens, and New York's were lax.
- He is a naturalised US citizen born in Jordan.
- While his family were naturalised, he wasn't living at home, therefore he never got naturalised.
Synonyms
grant citizenship to, make a citizen, endow with the rights of citizenship, confer citizenship on, give a passport to, enfranchise
1. 1.1no object (of a foreigner) be admitted to the citizenship of a country.
  接受（侨民）入籍，使入籍
  the opportunity to naturalize as British
  Example sentencesExamples
  Even the Supreme Court was not as willing to allow Asian immigrants to naturalize.
  They urged immigrants to learn English and to naturalize.
  Mark had naturalized as a citizen when his mother gained her citizenship.
  Politically and legally, this transformation takes place when we become citizens, when we naturalize.
  I'm born in England to a Canadian mother, so I naturalized.
  Many superintendents embraced this idea and proceeded to naturalize.
  Slow to naturalize, Italians played a minor role in American politics until after World War II.
  In other words, countries cannot, for example, allow European immigrants to naturalize while barring Haitians.
  Synonyms
  assimilate, absorb, incorporate, adopt, accept, take in, homogenize
2Biology
Establish (a plant or animal) so that it lives wild in a region where it is not indigenous.
〔生〕使（植物，动物）自然化，适应异域生长环境
the species was naturalized in Britain as early as 1620
Example sentencesExamples
- Native to the Old World tropics, it is naturalized at scattered locations in the southern United States from California to Virginia.
- To he eligible for listing in the National Register of Big Trees, a species most be recognized as native or naturalized in the continental United States, including Alaska but not Hawaii.
- They have done a wonderful job in this compilation of 195 species of native and naturalized trees of Pennsylvania.
- The site then had a good range of flora and fauna having become naturalised, and had not been used for tipping for many years.
- The field and herbarium study permitted us to document aposematism in the native and naturalized vascular flora of the region.
- A mix of both native and naturalized wildflower seeds was planted, and Black-eyed Susans were the predominant species.
- This fern is native to southeastern Asia but is naturalized in parts of the southeastern United States.
- Many other species that began in the region in this category have escaped and become naturalized in wild areas.
- Like Europeans, Americans were eager to naturalize familiar species in their new homelands.
- Mechanical removal of weeds is used whenever possible, and 10 per cent of the campus is now naturalized landscape instead of grass.
- Sigesbeckia orientalis and S. jorullensis are not indigenous to Europe, but both species are naturalized.
- Of recently naturalized species, some have rapidly changing ranges and rapidly changing local abundances.
- Thanks to drug manufacturer Eugene Schieffelin, who wanted to naturalize all the birds in Shakespeare, we share the continent with 200 million European starlings.
- As a classic book on native and naturalised plants of Britain, Richard Mabey's Flora Britannica is hard to beat.
- This is an account of nineteenth-century efforts to naturalize alien freshwater and anadromous fish in California.
- The champion bluegum may be the biggest naturalized tree and the biggest hardwood in America, but for many, it's also the biggest weed.
- A potential insect pest has been identified as a naturalised species of beetle with the help of the Department of Agriculture's website.
1. 2.1 (with reference to a cultivated plant) establish or become established in a natural situation.
  （栽培植物）在自然环境中存活
  with object this species of crocus naturalizes itself very easily
  这种番红花很容易适应自然环境。
  Example sentencesExamples
  This is always good advice for planting bulbs, and is essential for naturalizing or perennializing.
  Grape hyacinths or Muscari are useful spring-flowering bulbs for containers or for naturalising under shrubs and among other spring bulbs.
  When ‘perennializing ‘or naturalizing tulips, plant them about eight inches deep and choose a well-drained spot in the yard.’
  Of all the garden plants that can be naturalized, bulbs create the fewest problems.
  All of these bulbs have naturalized; they now spread across the hillside.
  The bluebell (Hyacinthoides non-scripta), which is native to moist deciduous woodlands, is perfect for naturalizing.
  Tulips, as a rule, do not naturalize well, and most species are therefore planted annually.
  The fact that this little tulip naturalizes so easily is certainly another big advantage.
  Corydalis is very suitable for naturalizing under trees and shrubs.
  The overcut bog adjacent to the farmland has been allowed to naturalise becoming an attraction and haven for wildlife.
  Muscari planted in a favorable location where no water can settle during the winter can naturalize easily in climatic zones 4-8.
  This is one of the best bulb plants for naturalizing.
  When the plant is allowed to increase freely, it naturalizes and eventually forms extensive ground cover.
  To naturalize bulbs in your lawn, choose bulbs that blossom and fade before grass grows vigorously and requires mowing: crocus, winter aconite, snowdrops, and scilla.
  It is a very good plant for naturalizing in moist, sheltered, half-shaded locations.
  This is the universally known species that naturalizes very easily, especially in moist soil that supplies sufficient nutrients.
  The bulbs, offered in sizes 6/8 to 8 / 10, are smaller than those of ordinary tulips and are very easy to naturalize.
  If its soil is well drained, this little plant with its peculiarly shaped tubers will have no trouble naturalizing.
  Before naturalizing bulbs, look carefully at the existing plant cover.
  Varieties good for naturalizing are available as well, and therefore eliminate the need to dig and replant.
  For example, bulbs like crocuses and daffodils, which are good at naturalizing, generally do well planted out after forcing.
  Synonyms
  establish, introduce, acclimatize, domesticate
3Alter (an adopted foreign word) so that it conforms more closely to the phonology or orthography of the adopting language.
使（外来词语）归化
the stoccafisso of Liguria was naturalized in Nice as stocoficada
（意大利）利古里亚的stoccafisso （鱼干）一词在（法国）尼斯被归化成了stocoficada。
Example sentencesExamples
- And, what should it do now that the terminology has been naturalized into the vernacular?
- When he has Virgil say, ‘There's not much time to lose, so make it presto,’ we might think that he is here latching on to what could be a gift to the translator, a word used by Dante which is also naturalised in English.
- Many sounds that should seem strange to non-English speakers have been adopted and even naturalized in different countries, Spain among them.
- Throughout the 20th century we borrowed words from the United States, and very quickly they became naturalised.
- Eravalu Padakosha, a dictionary of loan words that have been naturalised in Kannada, runs to 250 pages and it does not include words of Sanskrit and Prakrit origin.
- In this meaning it was originally US slang, I believe, taken up and rapidly naturalised in Britain only after World War Two.
- More important, though, Japanese mass culture somehow naturalizes gaijin forms without integrating them.
4Regard as or cause to appear natural.
使自然化；把…视作自然
globalization has been naturalized as the inevitable pathway to economic prosperity and success
Example sentencesExamples
- The family operates as a cognitive schema, which is mostly doxic, that is, invisible, naturalised and taken for granted.
- Development theories complement official development policies, and also naturalise and legitimise underdevelopment.
- The notion of representative bodies with public responsibility and accountability is deeply entrenched and naturalised in the white community.
- These dynamics become naturalised, made invisible by their ubiquity.
- It is a peculiar notion of masculinity that is naturalised and internalised in everyday practices and relationships by both men and women.
- As more women display masculine characteristics, this threatens the bipolar construction that has become so naturalized.
- This print model has become so naturalised that it disappears.
- But ‘family values’, once a matter of stated political doctrine, have now receded from the realm of political contestation to become naturalized.
- But I can't say the same about Toscanini, whose lessons have apparently been learned and naturalized only too well and whose style is more easily imitated than the art and timbre of a great voice or soloist.
- The writing spoke of a desire for respectability and recognition: even for social revolution to alter a system which naturalised inequality.
- ‘Pornography’ has now become so naturalized that the very category itself may soon be obsolete.
- Junto can afford to bypass the usual discourses of race, that is, as long as the racial hierarchy remains so naturalized that his power is unquestionable.
- The novel shows how a racist representation can become so naturalized through its repetition in such forms as popular music that it engages the participation of even those whom it burlesques.
- Indeed, this book's special virtue is to historicize and demystify the material conditions of everyday life which industrial culture has tended to naturalize.
- In this respect, her novel follows Morrison's formula: whiteness is naturalized, and racial alterity is figured as a threat from the border.
- Once the life-death cycle became established in the womb of humanity, death became naturalised and perceived as a decent and an acceptable commodity for an increasing range of human problems and human needs.
Synonyms
assimilate, absorb, incorporate, adopt, accept, take in, homogenize
1. 4.1 Explain (a phenomenon) in a naturalistic way.
  用自然道理解释（现象）
  Example sentencesExamples
  The role of romance is to assimilate the ‘progress’ of society by naturalizing history via a certain kind of historicism.
  The print charts a landscape that naturalizes second-creation stories.
  English colonizers represented inferior Indians as vanishing from the American landscape while naturalizing themselves as the true ‘Americans.’
  Once the map is naturalised we rarely bother to ask whether what we are looking at is ‘representation’ or ‘the world,’ and cartographers rarely bother to tell us.
  Against any tendency to naturalize evil, Julian sees evil as profoundly unnatural, unkind.
  This georgic representation of empire, then, simultaneously naturalizes both nation and empire.
  Psychoanalysis, then, becomes a discourse of exclusion, as it naturalizes the morality or immorality associated with elements of one's psychological make-up.
  Yet at the same time, Harjo's poems naturalize these spatial worlds, presenting them as if they were our ordinary, everyday environments, as if they were nothing that should surprise us.
  He is successful to the extent that he can define himself as national spokesman in order to naturalize the nation as family metaphor.
  But at the same time, they are designed to naturalize death, presenting us with bodies that are slowly and unhorrifically becoming undifferentiated organic matter.
  The above approach naturalizes consumption as an already existing, readily available set of social practices.
  All the while, its residual, unofficial curriculum naturalizes a consistent image of the Canadian nation's ‘true’ founders as white British brothers of the officer class.
  Naturalism, in other words, naturalizes ideology.
  Landscape has relevance here because it naturalises in material form the values of the powerful, marking out moral geographies that exclude and exile feared social groups.

Origin

mid 16th century: from French naturaliser, from Old French natural (see natural).

Definition of naturalize in US English:

naturalize

(British naturalise)

verbˈnaCH(ə)rəˌlīzˈnætʃ(ə)rəˌlaɪz

[with object]

1often be/become naturalizedAdmit (a foreigner) to the citizenship of a country.
接受（侨民）入籍，使入籍
he was born in a foreign country and had never been naturalized
他出生于国外，从未被接受入籍。
Example sentencesExamples
- Kozeny was naturalised as an Irish citizen in 1995 under the Rainbow Coalition in return for investment in an Irish software company.
- To state more in detail, Chin Gempin was naturalized as a Japanese subject in 1659 and died in 1671.
- Chan told Lee that many Indians and Pakistanis living in Hong Kong were finding it hard to get naturalised.
- Come Australia Day, the family of five will officially call Australia home when they are naturalised at the citizenship ceremony to be held at the Aquarena.
- The remaining 400,000 have become naturalized Japanese citizens.
- In fact, we recently naturalized a person who was a terrorist.
- Asians have generally opted to become naturalized citizens rather than permanent resident aliens in the U.S., if they are able to meet the requirements.
- While his family were naturalised, he wasn't living at home, therefore he never got naturalised.
- He is a man who was born in Ireland, but who became naturalized as a Thai citizen 27 years ago.
- ‘Some foreign spouses who need this kind of financial assistance may not qualify because they have yet to be naturalized as Taiwanese citizens,’ Lin said.
- We were born there but one of the previous generations must have got naturalised.
- But, as far as NASA is concerned, someone naturalised yesterday is just fine.
- The United States defended its right to naturalize foreigners and rejected Britain's claim that it could legitimately practice impressment on the high seas.
- The citizenship clause declares that anyone born or naturalized in the US is a citizen of the United States and of whatever state they reside in.
- Certainly, many immigrants who have been naturalised as British citizens wear their citizenship lightly.
- Under the law, ethnic minorities who want an SAR passport must first become naturalised Chinese citizens.
- Locke was not the first naturalized foreigner to serve in the Taiwan military.
- I accept that many Filipinos naturalized elsewhere retain their sentimental ties to the mother country and share their income and good fortune with their relatives.
- He is a naturalised US citizen born in Jordan.
- She is the first naturalised American citizen to win the much-coveted National Book Critics Circle Award.
- Each state then set its own standards for naturalizing new citizens, and New York's were lax.
- They settled all over Britain, becoming naturalised British citizens of the Roman Empire, erecting a wealth of inscriptions which attest to their assimilation and prosperity.
- Why hasn't he taken the plunge and become naturalized and enabled himself to be in a better position to do something about this by voting?
Synonyms
grant citizenship to, make a citizen, endow with the rights of citizenship, confer citizenship on, give a passport to, enfranchise
1. 1.1no object (of a foreigner) be admitted to the citizenship of a country.
  接受（侨民）入籍，使入籍
  the opportunity to naturalize as American
  Example sentencesExamples
  They urged immigrants to learn English and to naturalize.
  Slow to naturalize, Italians played a minor role in American politics until after World War II.
  Even the Supreme Court was not as willing to allow Asian immigrants to naturalize.
  Mark had naturalized as a citizen when his mother gained her citizenship.
  Politically and legally, this transformation takes place when we become citizens, when we naturalize.
  I'm born in England to a Canadian mother, so I naturalized.
  Many superintendents embraced this idea and proceeded to naturalize.
  In other words, countries cannot, for example, allow European immigrants to naturalize while barring Haitians.
  Synonyms
  assimilate, absorb, incorporate, adopt, accept, take in, homogenize
2Biology
Establish (a plant or animal) so that it lives wild in a region where it is not indigenous.
〔生〕使（植物，动物）自然化，适应异域生长环境
by the 1920s, the species was naturalized in New England
Example sentencesExamples
- This fern is native to southeastern Asia but is naturalized in parts of the southeastern United States.
- The site then had a good range of flora and fauna having become naturalised, and had not been used for tipping for many years.
- As a classic book on native and naturalised plants of Britain, Richard Mabey's Flora Britannica is hard to beat.
- Mechanical removal of weeds is used whenever possible, and 10 per cent of the campus is now naturalized landscape instead of grass.
- This is an account of nineteenth-century efforts to naturalize alien freshwater and anadromous fish in California.
- Like Europeans, Americans were eager to naturalize familiar species in their new homelands.
- To he eligible for listing in the National Register of Big Trees, a species most be recognized as native or naturalized in the continental United States, including Alaska but not Hawaii.
- Sigesbeckia orientalis and S. jorullensis are not indigenous to Europe, but both species are naturalized.
- Native to the Old World tropics, it is naturalized at scattered locations in the southern United States from California to Virginia.
- The champion bluegum may be the biggest naturalized tree and the biggest hardwood in America, but for many, it's also the biggest weed.
- They have done a wonderful job in this compilation of 195 species of native and naturalized trees of Pennsylvania.
- A potential insect pest has been identified as a naturalised species of beetle with the help of the Department of Agriculture's website.
- The field and herbarium study permitted us to document aposematism in the native and naturalized vascular flora of the region.
- Of recently naturalized species, some have rapidly changing ranges and rapidly changing local abundances.
- Many other species that began in the region in this category have escaped and become naturalized in wild areas.
- A mix of both native and naturalized wildflower seeds was planted, and Black-eyed Susans were the predominant species.
- Thanks to drug manufacturer Eugene Schieffelin, who wanted to naturalize all the birds in Shakespeare, we share the continent with 200 million European starlings.
1. 2.1 (with reference to a cultivated plant) establish or become established in a natural situation.
  （栽培植物）在自然环境中存活
  with object this species of crocus naturalizes itself very easily
  这种番红花很容易适应自然环境。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Before naturalizing bulbs, look carefully at the existing plant cover.
  When the plant is allowed to increase freely, it naturalizes and eventually forms extensive ground cover.
  It is a very good plant for naturalizing in moist, sheltered, half-shaded locations.
  If its soil is well drained, this little plant with its peculiarly shaped tubers will have no trouble naturalizing.
  Muscari planted in a favorable location where no water can settle during the winter can naturalize easily in climatic zones 4-8.
  All of these bulbs have naturalized; they now spread across the hillside.
  This is the universally known species that naturalizes very easily, especially in moist soil that supplies sufficient nutrients.
  The fact that this little tulip naturalizes so easily is certainly another big advantage.
  When ‘perennializing ‘or naturalizing tulips, plant them about eight inches deep and choose a well-drained spot in the yard.’
  The overcut bog adjacent to the farmland has been allowed to naturalise becoming an attraction and haven for wildlife.
  Grape hyacinths or Muscari are useful spring-flowering bulbs for containers or for naturalising under shrubs and among other spring bulbs.
  The bulbs, offered in sizes 6/8 to 8 / 10, are smaller than those of ordinary tulips and are very easy to naturalize.
  To naturalize bulbs in your lawn, choose bulbs that blossom and fade before grass grows vigorously and requires mowing: crocus, winter aconite, snowdrops, and scilla.
  Varieties good for naturalizing are available as well, and therefore eliminate the need to dig and replant.
  This is always good advice for planting bulbs, and is essential for naturalizing or perennializing.
  Corydalis is very suitable for naturalizing under trees and shrubs.
  This is one of the best bulb plants for naturalizing.
  Tulips, as a rule, do not naturalize well, and most species are therefore planted annually.
  Of all the garden plants that can be naturalized, bulbs create the fewest problems.
  The bluebell (Hyacinthoides non-scripta), which is native to moist deciduous woodlands, is perfect for naturalizing.
  For example, bulbs like crocuses and daffodils, which are good at naturalizing, generally do well planted out after forcing.
  Synonyms
  establish, introduce, acclimatize, domesticate
3Alter (an adopted foreign word) so that it conforms more closely to the phonology or orthography of the adopting language.
使（外来词语）归化
the stoccafisso of Liguria was naturalized in Nice as stocoficada
（意大利）利古里亚的stoccafisso （鱼干）一词在（法国）尼斯被归化成了stocoficada。
Example sentencesExamples
- Throughout the 20th century we borrowed words from the United States, and very quickly they became naturalised.
- And, what should it do now that the terminology has been naturalized into the vernacular?
- Eravalu Padakosha, a dictionary of loan words that have been naturalised in Kannada, runs to 250 pages and it does not include words of Sanskrit and Prakrit origin.
- Many sounds that should seem strange to non-English speakers have been adopted and even naturalized in different countries, Spain among them.
- More important, though, Japanese mass culture somehow naturalizes gaijin forms without integrating them.
- In this meaning it was originally US slang, I believe, taken up and rapidly naturalised in Britain only after World War Two.
- When he has Virgil say, ‘There's not much time to lose, so make it presto,’ we might think that he is here latching on to what could be a gift to the translator, a word used by Dante which is also naturalised in English.
4Regard as or cause to appear natural.
使自然化；把…视作自然
globalization has been naturalized as the inevitable pathway to economic prosperity and success
Example sentencesExamples
- This print model has become so naturalised that it disappears.
- It is a peculiar notion of masculinity that is naturalised and internalised in everyday practices and relationships by both men and women.
- The writing spoke of a desire for respectability and recognition: even for social revolution to alter a system which naturalised inequality.
- Once the life-death cycle became established in the womb of humanity, death became naturalised and perceived as a decent and an acceptable commodity for an increasing range of human problems and human needs.
- But I can't say the same about Toscanini, whose lessons have apparently been learned and naturalized only too well and whose style is more easily imitated than the art and timbre of a great voice or soloist.
- ‘Pornography’ has now become so naturalized that the very category itself may soon be obsolete.
- In this respect, her novel follows Morrison's formula: whiteness is naturalized, and racial alterity is figured as a threat from the border.
- These dynamics become naturalised, made invisible by their ubiquity.
- But ‘family values’, once a matter of stated political doctrine, have now receded from the realm of political contestation to become naturalized.
- The family operates as a cognitive schema, which is mostly doxic, that is, invisible, naturalised and taken for granted.
- Junto can afford to bypass the usual discourses of race, that is, as long as the racial hierarchy remains so naturalized that his power is unquestionable.
- As more women display masculine characteristics, this threatens the bipolar construction that has become so naturalized.
- The novel shows how a racist representation can become so naturalized through its repetition in such forms as popular music that it engages the participation of even those whom it burlesques.
- The notion of representative bodies with public responsibility and accountability is deeply entrenched and naturalised in the white community.
- Development theories complement official development policies, and also naturalise and legitimise underdevelopment.
- Indeed, this book's special virtue is to historicize and demystify the material conditions of everyday life which industrial culture has tended to naturalize.
Synonyms
assimilate, absorb, incorporate, adopt, accept, take in, homogenize
1. 4.1 Explain (a phenomenon) in a naturalistic way.
  用自然道理解释（现象）
  Example sentencesExamples
  Landscape has relevance here because it naturalises in material form the values of the powerful, marking out moral geographies that exclude and exile feared social groups.
  The print charts a landscape that naturalizes second-creation stories.
  But at the same time, they are designed to naturalize death, presenting us with bodies that are slowly and unhorrifically becoming undifferentiated organic matter.
  He is successful to the extent that he can define himself as national spokesman in order to naturalize the nation as family metaphor.
  Against any tendency to naturalize evil, Julian sees evil as profoundly unnatural, unkind.
  The role of romance is to assimilate the ‘progress’ of society by naturalizing history via a certain kind of historicism.
  The above approach naturalizes consumption as an already existing, readily available set of social practices.
  Once the map is naturalised we rarely bother to ask whether what we are looking at is ‘representation’ or ‘the world,’ and cartographers rarely bother to tell us.
  Naturalism, in other words, naturalizes ideology.
  English colonizers represented inferior Indians as vanishing from the American landscape while naturalizing themselves as the true ‘Americans.’
  This georgic representation of empire, then, simultaneously naturalizes both nation and empire.
  All the while, its residual, unofficial curriculum naturalizes a consistent image of the Canadian nation's ‘true’ founders as white British brothers of the officer class.
  Yet at the same time, Harjo's poems naturalize these spatial worlds, presenting them as if they were our ordinary, everyday environments, as if they were nothing that should surprise us.
  Psychoanalysis, then, becomes a discourse of exclusion, as it naturalizes the morality or immorality associated with elements of one's psychological make-up.

Origin

Mid 16th century: from French naturaliser, from Old French natural (see natural).

词汇	naturalize
释义	Definition of naturalize in English: naturalize (British naturalise) verb ˈnatʃ(ə)rəlʌɪzˈnætʃ(ə)rəˌlaɪz [with object] 1Admit (a foreigner) to the citizenship of a country. 接受（侨民）入籍，使入籍 he was born in a foreign country and had never been naturalized 他出生于国外，从未被接受入籍。 Example sentencesExamples Why hasn't he taken the plunge and become naturalized and enabled himself to be in a better position to do something about this by voting? We were born there but one of the previous generations must have got naturalised. ‘Some foreign spouses who need this kind of financial assistance may not qualify because they have yet to be naturalized as Taiwanese citizens,’ Lin said. Under the law, ethnic minorities who want an SAR passport must first become naturalised Chinese citizens. They settled all over Britain, becoming naturalised British citizens of the Roman Empire, erecting a wealth of inscriptions which attest to their assimilation and prosperity. Locke was not the first naturalized foreigner to serve in the Taiwan military. But, as far as NASA is concerned, someone naturalised yesterday is just fine. She is the first naturalised American citizen to win the much-coveted National Book Critics Circle Award. I accept that many Filipinos naturalized elsewhere retain their sentimental ties to the mother country and share their income and good fortune with their relatives. The citizenship clause declares that anyone born or naturalized in the US is a citizen of the United States and of whatever state they reside in. Come Australia Day, the family of five will officially call Australia home when they are naturalised at the citizenship ceremony to be held at the Aquarena. Asians have generally opted to become naturalized citizens rather than permanent resident aliens in the U.S., if they are able to meet the requirements. Chan told Lee that many Indians and Pakistanis living in Hong Kong were finding it hard to get naturalised. To state more in detail, Chin Gempin was naturalized as a Japanese subject in 1659 and died in 1671. The United States defended its right to naturalize foreigners and rejected Britain's claim that it could legitimately practice impressment on the high seas. Kozeny was naturalised as an Irish citizen in 1995 under the Rainbow Coalition in return for investment in an Irish software company. He is a man who was born in Ireland, but who became naturalized as a Thai citizen 27 years ago. The remaining 400,000 have become naturalized Japanese citizens. Certainly, many immigrants who have been naturalised as British citizens wear their citizenship lightly. In fact, we recently naturalized a person who was a terrorist. Each state then set its own standards for naturalizing new citizens, and New York's were lax. He is a naturalised US citizen born in Jordan. While his family were naturalised, he wasn't living at home, therefore he never got naturalised. Synonyms grant citizenship to, make a citizen, endow with the rights of citizenship, confer citizenship on, give a passport to, enfranchise 1.1no object (of a foreigner) be admitted to the citizenship of a country. 接受（侨民）入籍，使入籍 the opportunity to naturalize as British Example sentencesExamples Even the Supreme Court was not as willing to allow Asian immigrants to naturalize. They urged immigrants to learn English and to naturalize. Mark had naturalized as a citizen when his mother gained her citizenship. Politically and legally, this transformation takes place when we become citizens, when we naturalize. I'm born in England to a Canadian mother, so I naturalized. Many superintendents embraced this idea and proceeded to naturalize. Slow to naturalize, Italians played a minor role in American politics until after World War II. In other words, countries cannot, for example, allow European immigrants to naturalize while barring Haitians. Synonyms assimilate, absorb, incorporate, adopt, accept, take in, homogenize 2Biology Establish (a plant or animal) so that it lives wild in a region where it is not indigenous. 〔生〕使（植物，动物）自然化，适应异域生长环境 the species was naturalized in Britain as early as 1620 Example sentencesExamples Native to the Old World tropics, it is naturalized at scattered locations in the southern United States from California to Virginia. To he eligible for listing in the National Register of Big Trees, a species most be recognized as native or naturalized in the continental United States, including Alaska but not Hawaii. They have done a wonderful job in this compilation of 195 species of native and naturalized trees of Pennsylvania. The site then had a good range of flora and fauna having become naturalised, and had not been used for tipping for many years. The field and herbarium study permitted us to document aposematism in the native and naturalized vascular flora of the region. A mix of both native and naturalized wildflower seeds was planted, and Black-eyed Susans were the predominant species. This fern is native to southeastern Asia but is naturalized in parts of the southeastern United States. Many other species that began in the region in this category have escaped and become naturalized in wild areas. Like Europeans, Americans were eager to naturalize familiar species in their new homelands. Mechanical removal of weeds is used whenever possible, and 10 per cent of the campus is now naturalized landscape instead of grass. Sigesbeckia orientalis and S. jorullensis are not indigenous to Europe, but both species are naturalized. Of recently naturalized species, some have rapidly changing ranges and rapidly changing local abundances. Thanks to drug manufacturer Eugene Schieffelin, who wanted to naturalize all the birds in Shakespeare, we share the continent with 200 million European starlings. As a classic book on native and naturalised plants of Britain, Richard Mabey's Flora Britannica is hard to beat. This is an account of nineteenth-century efforts to naturalize alien freshwater and anadromous fish in California. The champion bluegum may be the biggest naturalized tree and the biggest hardwood in America, but for many, it's also the biggest weed. A potential insect pest has been identified as a naturalised species of beetle with the help of the Department of Agriculture's website. 2.1 (with reference to a cultivated plant) establish or become established in a natural situation. （栽培植物）在自然环境中存活 with object this species of crocus naturalizes itself very easily 这种番红花很容易适应自然环境。 Example sentencesExamples This is always good advice for planting bulbs, and is essential for naturalizing or perennializing. Grape hyacinths or Muscari are useful spring-flowering bulbs for containers or for naturalising under shrubs and among other spring bulbs. When ‘perennializing ‘or naturalizing tulips, plant them about eight inches deep and choose a well-drained spot in the yard.’ Of all the garden plants that can be naturalized, bulbs create the fewest problems. All of these bulbs have naturalized; they now spread across the hillside. The bluebell (Hyacinthoides non-scripta), which is native to moist deciduous woodlands, is perfect for naturalizing. Tulips, as a rule, do not naturalize well, and most species are therefore planted annually. The fact that this little tulip naturalizes so easily is certainly another big advantage. Corydalis is very suitable for naturalizing under trees and shrubs. The overcut bog adjacent to the farmland has been allowed to naturalise becoming an attraction and haven for wildlife. Muscari planted in a favorable location where no water can settle during the winter can naturalize easily in climatic zones 4-8. This is one of the best bulb plants for naturalizing. When the plant is allowed to increase freely, it naturalizes and eventually forms extensive ground cover. To naturalize bulbs in your lawn, choose bulbs that blossom and fade before grass grows vigorously and requires mowing: crocus, winter aconite, snowdrops, and scilla. It is a very good plant for naturalizing in moist, sheltered, half-shaded locations. This is the universally known species that naturalizes very easily, especially in moist soil that supplies sufficient nutrients. The bulbs, offered in sizes 6/8 to 8 / 10, are smaller than those of ordinary tulips and are very easy to naturalize. If its soil is well drained, this little plant with its peculiarly shaped tubers will have no trouble naturalizing. Before naturalizing bulbs, look carefully at the existing plant cover. Varieties good for naturalizing are available as well, and therefore eliminate the need to dig and replant. For example, bulbs like crocuses and daffodils, which are good at naturalizing, generally do well planted out after forcing. Synonyms establish, introduce, acclimatize, domesticate 3Alter (an adopted foreign word) so that it conforms more closely to the phonology or orthography of the adopting language. 使（外来词语）归化 the stoccafisso of Liguria was naturalized in Nice as stocoficada （意大利）利古里亚的stoccafisso （鱼干）一词在（法国）尼斯被归化成了stocoficada。 Example sentencesExamples And, what should it do now that the terminology has been naturalized into the vernacular? When he has Virgil say, ‘There's not much time to lose, so make it presto,’ we might think that he is here latching on to what could be a gift to the translator, a word used by Dante which is also naturalised in English. Many sounds that should seem strange to non-English speakers have been adopted and even naturalized in different countries, Spain among them. Throughout the 20th century we borrowed words from the United States, and very quickly they became naturalised. Eravalu Padakosha, a dictionary of loan words that have been naturalised in Kannada, runs to 250 pages and it does not include words of Sanskrit and Prakrit origin. In this meaning it was originally US slang, I believe, taken up and rapidly naturalised in Britain only after World War Two. More important, though, Japanese mass culture somehow naturalizes gaijin forms without integrating them. 4Regard as or cause to appear natural. 使自然化；把…视作自然 globalization has been naturalized as the inevitable pathway to economic prosperity and success Example sentencesExamples The family operates as a cognitive schema, which is mostly doxic, that is, invisible, naturalised and taken for granted. Development theories complement official development policies, and also naturalise and legitimise underdevelopment. The notion of representative bodies with public responsibility and accountability is deeply entrenched and naturalised in the white community. These dynamics become naturalised, made invisible by their ubiquity. It is a peculiar notion of masculinity that is naturalised and internalised in everyday practices and relationships by both men and women. As more women display masculine characteristics, this threatens the bipolar construction that has become so naturalized. This print model has become so naturalised that it disappears. But ‘family values’, once a matter of stated political doctrine, have now receded from the realm of political contestation to become naturalized. But I can't say the same about Toscanini, whose lessons have apparently been learned and naturalized only too well and whose style is more easily imitated than the art and timbre of a great voice or soloist. The writing spoke of a desire for respectability and recognition: even for social revolution to alter a system which naturalised inequality. ‘Pornography’ has now become so naturalized that the very category itself may soon be obsolete. Junto can afford to bypass the usual discourses of race, that is, as long as the racial hierarchy remains so naturalized that his power is unquestionable. The novel shows how a racist representation can become so naturalized through its repetition in such forms as popular music that it engages the participation of even those whom it burlesques. Indeed, this book's special virtue is to historicize and demystify the material conditions of everyday life which industrial culture has tended to naturalize. In this respect, her novel follows Morrison's formula: whiteness is naturalized, and racial alterity is figured as a threat from the border. Once the life-death cycle became established in the womb of humanity, death became naturalised and perceived as a decent and an acceptable commodity for an increasing range of human problems and human needs. Synonyms assimilate, absorb, incorporate, adopt, accept, take in, homogenize 4.1 Explain (a phenomenon) in a naturalistic way. 用自然道理解释（现象） Example sentencesExamples The role of romance is to assimilate the ‘progress’ of society by naturalizing history via a certain kind of historicism. The print charts a landscape that naturalizes second-creation stories. English colonizers represented inferior Indians as vanishing from the American landscape while naturalizing themselves as the true ‘Americans.’ Once the map is naturalised we rarely bother to ask whether what we are looking at is ‘representation’ or ‘the world,’ and cartographers rarely bother to tell us. Against any tendency to naturalize evil, Julian sees evil as profoundly unnatural, unkind. This georgic representation of empire, then, simultaneously naturalizes both nation and empire. Psychoanalysis, then, becomes a discourse of exclusion, as it naturalizes the morality or immorality associated with elements of one's psychological make-up. Yet at the same time, Harjo's poems naturalize these spatial worlds, presenting them as if they were our ordinary, everyday environments, as if they were nothing that should surprise us. He is successful to the extent that he can define himself as national spokesman in order to naturalize the nation as family metaphor. But at the same time, they are designed to naturalize death, presenting us with bodies that are slowly and unhorrifically becoming undifferentiated organic matter. The above approach naturalizes consumption as an already existing, readily available set of social practices. All the while, its residual, unofficial curriculum naturalizes a consistent image of the Canadian nation's ‘true’ founders as white British brothers of the officer class. Naturalism, in other words, naturalizes ideology. Landscape has relevance here because it naturalises in material form the values of the powerful, marking out moral geographies that exclude and exile feared social groups. Origin mid 16th century: from French naturaliser, from Old French natural (see natural). Definition of naturalize in US English: naturalize (British naturalise) verbˈnaCH(ə)rəˌlīzˈnætʃ(ə)rəˌlaɪz [with object] 1often be/become naturalizedAdmit (a foreigner) to the citizenship of a country. 接受（侨民）入籍，使入籍 he was born in a foreign country and had never been naturalized 他出生于国外，从未被接受入籍。 Example sentencesExamples Kozeny was naturalised as an Irish citizen in 1995 under the Rainbow Coalition in return for investment in an Irish software company. To state more in detail, Chin Gempin was naturalized as a Japanese subject in 1659 and died in 1671. Chan told Lee that many Indians and Pakistanis living in Hong Kong were finding it hard to get naturalised. Come Australia Day, the family of five will officially call Australia home when they are naturalised at the citizenship ceremony to be held at the Aquarena. The remaining 400,000 have become naturalized Japanese citizens. In fact, we recently naturalized a person who was a terrorist. Asians have generally opted to become naturalized citizens rather than permanent resident aliens in the U.S., if they are able to meet the requirements. While his family were naturalised, he wasn't living at home, therefore he never got naturalised. He is a man who was born in Ireland, but who became naturalized as a Thai citizen 27 years ago. ‘Some foreign spouses who need this kind of financial assistance may not qualify because they have yet to be naturalized as Taiwanese citizens,’ Lin said. We were born there but one of the previous generations must have got naturalised. But, as far as NASA is concerned, someone naturalised yesterday is just fine. The United States defended its right to naturalize foreigners and rejected Britain's claim that it could legitimately practice impressment on the high seas. The citizenship clause declares that anyone born or naturalized in the US is a citizen of the United States and of whatever state they reside in. Certainly, many immigrants who have been naturalised as British citizens wear their citizenship lightly. Under the law, ethnic minorities who want an SAR passport must first become naturalised Chinese citizens. Locke was not the first naturalized foreigner to serve in the Taiwan military. I accept that many Filipinos naturalized elsewhere retain their sentimental ties to the mother country and share their income and good fortune with their relatives. He is a naturalised US citizen born in Jordan. She is the first naturalised American citizen to win the much-coveted National Book Critics Circle Award. Each state then set its own standards for naturalizing new citizens, and New York's were lax. They settled all over Britain, becoming naturalised British citizens of the Roman Empire, erecting a wealth of inscriptions which attest to their assimilation and prosperity. Why hasn't he taken the plunge and become naturalized and enabled himself to be in a better position to do something about this by voting? Synonyms grant citizenship to, make a citizen, endow with the rights of citizenship, confer citizenship on, give a passport to, enfranchise 1.1no object (of a foreigner) be admitted to the citizenship of a country. 接受（侨民）入籍，使入籍 the opportunity to naturalize as American Example sentencesExamples They urged immigrants to learn English and to naturalize. Slow to naturalize, Italians played a minor role in American politics until after World War II. Even the Supreme Court was not as willing to allow Asian immigrants to naturalize. Mark had naturalized as a citizen when his mother gained her citizenship. Politically and legally, this transformation takes place when we become citizens, when we naturalize. I'm born in England to a Canadian mother, so I naturalized. Many superintendents embraced this idea and proceeded to naturalize. In other words, countries cannot, for example, allow European immigrants to naturalize while barring Haitians. Synonyms assimilate, absorb, incorporate, adopt, accept, take in, homogenize 2Biology Establish (a plant or animal) so that it lives wild in a region where it is not indigenous. 〔生〕使（植物，动物）自然化，适应异域生长环境 by the 1920s, the species was naturalized in New England Example sentencesExamples This fern is native to southeastern Asia but is naturalized in parts of the southeastern United States. The site then had a good range of flora and fauna having become naturalised, and had not been used for tipping for many years. As a classic book on native and naturalised plants of Britain, Richard Mabey's Flora Britannica is hard to beat. Mechanical removal of weeds is used whenever possible, and 10 per cent of the campus is now naturalized landscape instead of grass. This is an account of nineteenth-century efforts to naturalize alien freshwater and anadromous fish in California. Like Europeans, Americans were eager to naturalize familiar species in their new homelands. To he eligible for listing in the National Register of Big Trees, a species most be recognized as native or naturalized in the continental United States, including Alaska but not Hawaii. Sigesbeckia orientalis and S. jorullensis are not indigenous to Europe, but both species are naturalized. Native to the Old World tropics, it is naturalized at scattered locations in the southern United States from California to Virginia. The champion bluegum may be the biggest naturalized tree and the biggest hardwood in America, but for many, it's also the biggest weed. They have done a wonderful job in this compilation of 195 species of native and naturalized trees of Pennsylvania. A potential insect pest has been identified as a naturalised species of beetle with the help of the Department of Agriculture's website. The field and herbarium study permitted us to document aposematism in the native and naturalized vascular flora of the region. Of recently naturalized species, some have rapidly changing ranges and rapidly changing local abundances. Many other species that began in the region in this category have escaped and become naturalized in wild areas. A mix of both native and naturalized wildflower seeds was planted, and Black-eyed Susans were the predominant species. Thanks to drug manufacturer Eugene Schieffelin, who wanted to naturalize all the birds in Shakespeare, we share the continent with 200 million European starlings. 2.1 (with reference to a cultivated plant) establish or become established in a natural situation. （栽培植物）在自然环境中存活 with object this species of crocus naturalizes itself very easily 这种番红花很容易适应自然环境。 Example sentencesExamples Before naturalizing bulbs, look carefully at the existing plant cover. When the plant is allowed to increase freely, it naturalizes and eventually forms extensive ground cover. It is a very good plant for naturalizing in moist, sheltered, half-shaded locations. If its soil is well drained, this little plant with its peculiarly shaped tubers will have no trouble naturalizing. Muscari planted in a favorable location where no water can settle during the winter can naturalize easily in climatic zones 4-8. All of these bulbs have naturalized; they now spread across the hillside. This is the universally known species that naturalizes very easily, especially in moist soil that supplies sufficient nutrients. The fact that this little tulip naturalizes so easily is certainly another big advantage. When ‘perennializing ‘or naturalizing tulips, plant them about eight inches deep and choose a well-drained spot in the yard.’ The overcut bog adjacent to the farmland has been allowed to naturalise becoming an attraction and haven for wildlife. Grape hyacinths or Muscari are useful spring-flowering bulbs for containers or for naturalising under shrubs and among other spring bulbs. The bulbs, offered in sizes 6/8 to 8 / 10, are smaller than those of ordinary tulips and are very easy to naturalize. To naturalize bulbs in your lawn, choose bulbs that blossom and fade before grass grows vigorously and requires mowing: crocus, winter aconite, snowdrops, and scilla. Varieties good for naturalizing are available as well, and therefore eliminate the need to dig and replant. This is always good advice for planting bulbs, and is essential for naturalizing or perennializing. Corydalis is very suitable for naturalizing under trees and shrubs. This is one of the best bulb plants for naturalizing. Tulips, as a rule, do not naturalize well, and most species are therefore planted annually. Of all the garden plants that can be naturalized, bulbs create the fewest problems. The bluebell (Hyacinthoides non-scripta), which is native to moist deciduous woodlands, is perfect for naturalizing. For example, bulbs like crocuses and daffodils, which are good at naturalizing, generally do well planted out after forcing. Synonyms establish, introduce, acclimatize, domesticate 3Alter (an adopted foreign word) so that it conforms more closely to the phonology or orthography of the adopting language. 使（外来词语）归化 the stoccafisso of Liguria was naturalized in Nice as stocoficada （意大利）利古里亚的stoccafisso （鱼干）一词在（法国）尼斯被归化成了stocoficada。 Example sentencesExamples Throughout the 20th century we borrowed words from the United States, and very quickly they became naturalised. And, what should it do now that the terminology has been naturalized into the vernacular? Eravalu Padakosha, a dictionary of loan words that have been naturalised in Kannada, runs to 250 pages and it does not include words of Sanskrit and Prakrit origin. Many sounds that should seem strange to non-English speakers have been adopted and even naturalized in different countries, Spain among them. More important, though, Japanese mass culture somehow naturalizes gaijin forms without integrating them. In this meaning it was originally US slang, I believe, taken up and rapidly naturalised in Britain only after World War Two. When he has Virgil say, ‘There's not much time to lose, so make it presto,’ we might think that he is here latching on to what could be a gift to the translator, a word used by Dante which is also naturalised in English. 4Regard as or cause to appear natural. 使自然化；把…视作自然 globalization has been naturalized as the inevitable pathway to economic prosperity and success Example sentencesExamples This print model has become so naturalised that it disappears. It is a peculiar notion of masculinity that is naturalised and internalised in everyday practices and relationships by both men and women. The writing spoke of a desire for respectability and recognition: even for social revolution to alter a system which naturalised inequality. Once the life-death cycle became established in the womb of humanity, death became naturalised and perceived as a decent and an acceptable commodity for an increasing range of human problems and human needs. But I can't say the same about Toscanini, whose lessons have apparently been learned and naturalized only too well and whose style is more easily imitated than the art and timbre of a great voice or soloist. ‘Pornography’ has now become so naturalized that the very category itself may soon be obsolete. In this respect, her novel follows Morrison's formula: whiteness is naturalized, and racial alterity is figured as a threat from the border. These dynamics become naturalised, made invisible by their ubiquity. But ‘family values’, once a matter of stated political doctrine, have now receded from the realm of political contestation to become naturalized. The family operates as a cognitive schema, which is mostly doxic, that is, invisible, naturalised and taken for granted. Junto can afford to bypass the usual discourses of race, that is, as long as the racial hierarchy remains so naturalized that his power is unquestionable. As more women display masculine characteristics, this threatens the bipolar construction that has become so naturalized. The novel shows how a racist representation can become so naturalized through its repetition in such forms as popular music that it engages the participation of even those whom it burlesques. The notion of representative bodies with public responsibility and accountability is deeply entrenched and naturalised in the white community. Development theories complement official development policies, and also naturalise and legitimise underdevelopment. Indeed, this book's special virtue is to historicize and demystify the material conditions of everyday life which industrial culture has tended to naturalize. Synonyms assimilate, absorb, incorporate, adopt, accept, take in, homogenize 4.1 Explain (a phenomenon) in a naturalistic way. 用自然道理解释（现象） Example sentencesExamples Landscape has relevance here because it naturalises in material form the values of the powerful, marking out moral geographies that exclude and exile feared social groups. The print charts a landscape that naturalizes second-creation stories. But at the same time, they are designed to naturalize death, presenting us with bodies that are slowly and unhorrifically becoming undifferentiated organic matter. He is successful to the extent that he can define himself as national spokesman in order to naturalize the nation as family metaphor. Against any tendency to naturalize evil, Julian sees evil as profoundly unnatural, unkind. The role of romance is to assimilate the ‘progress’ of society by naturalizing history via a certain kind of historicism. The above approach naturalizes consumption as an already existing, readily available set of social practices. Once the map is naturalised we rarely bother to ask whether what we are looking at is ‘representation’ or ‘the world,’ and cartographers rarely bother to tell us. Naturalism, in other words, naturalizes ideology. English colonizers represented inferior Indians as vanishing from the American landscape while naturalizing themselves as the true ‘Americans.’ This georgic representation of empire, then, simultaneously naturalizes both nation and empire. All the while, its residual, unofficial curriculum naturalizes a consistent image of the Canadian nation's ‘true’ founders as white British brothers of the officer class. Yet at the same time, Harjo's poems naturalize these spatial worlds, presenting them as if they were our ordinary, everyday environments, as if they were nothing that should surprise us. Psychoanalysis, then, becomes a discourse of exclusion, as it naturalizes the morality or immorality associated with elements of one's psychological make-up. Origin Mid 16th century: from French naturaliser, from Old French natural (see natural).
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