naturalize
verb /ˈnætʃrəlaɪz/
/ˈnætʃrəlaɪz/
(British English also naturalise)
[usually passive]动词形式
| present simple I / you / we / they naturalize | /ˈnætʃrəlaɪz/ /ˈnætʃrəlaɪz/ |
| he / she / it naturalizes | /ˈnætʃrəlaɪzɪz/ /ˈnætʃrəlaɪzɪz/ |
| past simple naturalized | /ˈnætʃrəlaɪzd/ /ˈnætʃrəlaɪzd/ |
| past participle naturalized | /ˈnætʃrəlaɪzd/ /ˈnætʃrəlaɪzd/ |
| -ing form naturalizing | /ˈnætʃrəlaɪzɪŋ/ /ˈnætʃrəlaɪzɪŋ/ |
- [transitive] naturalize somebody to make somebody who was not born in a particular country a citizen of that country
使加入…国籍；使成为某国公民；归化 - a naturalized American who was born in Poland
出生于波兰而入美国籍的人 - He was naturalized as a British citizen in 1940.
他于1940年加入英国国籍。
- a naturalized American who was born in Poland
- [transitive] naturalize something to introduce a plant or an animal to a country where it is not native
引进（动植物）；移植 - The grey squirrel is now naturalized in Britain.
灰松鼠现已引入英国。
- The grey squirrel is now naturalized in Britain.
- [intransitive] (of a plant or an animal
动植物 适应异域生长环境
词源mid 16th cent.: from French naturaliser, from Old French natural, from Latin naturalis, from natura ‘birth, nature, quality’, from nat- ‘born’, from the verb nasci.