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单词 infantilize
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Definition of infantilize in English:

infantilize

(British infantilise)
verb ɪnˈfantɪlʌɪzɪnˈfæntɪlaɪz
[with object]
  • Treat (someone) as a child or in a way which denies their maturity in age or experience.

    把…当孩子对待;不把…当大人看待

    my generation grew up in a time when women were infantilized and treated as property
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Given this, it infantilizes him to ask us to root for him, as if he were a heart-touching runt.
    • Yet Blair felt unfulfilled, partly because Kelly tended to infantilise her.
    • To excuse Carr on the grounds of female weakness is to infantilise her and, by implication, womankind…
    • Finally, corporate HQ had alienated its store managers through infantilizing incentives schemes, and irritated its employees with oppressive ‘loss prevention’ policies.
    • The exploitation claim is yet another example of a mentality that finds exploitation everywhere even as it infantilizes the folks it purports to speak for.
    • Another thought about the infantilisation of teens: perhaps the problem is less that we infantilize them than that we treat them like adults before they're ready.
    • The colonized are infantilized: children are children and they dominate the film.
    • Korean young people are infantilized throughout most of their lives.
    • Perhaps the adults [who implemented the codes] are responsible for infantilizing speech.
    • She never at any point villainizes, criticizes, or infantilizes adolescents' beliefs and experiences; her tone is at all times respectful.
    • I'd just lost my mind and I was infantilised and it was very depressing.
    • I worry about infantilized responses, especially when higher education is trying to shape analytic and critical thinking skills.
    • Why infantilize young people who are entitled to every presumption of adulthood?
    • No other film-maker conveys so clearly how the bullying communist regime infantilises its citizens and treats everyone like 12-year-olds.
    • I think we have to be careful when we see or represent a woman who does not behave as society expects her to so that we don't infantilize her.
    • Any culture is infantilized, necessarily, when its members are denied the power to enter into adult commitments - to own, to vote, to defend one's country, to marry.
    • No one infantilizes adults more than the conservatives and the extreme right.
    • But how long must we infantilize the very people we're building sites for?
    • Does the birth of your children infantilize you?
    • What a godsend to infantilizing irresponsibility that era was.

Derivatives

  • infantilization

  • noun
    • Halloween, for me, is the gaudiest example of the infantilization of American culture.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • A life devoted to instant gratification produces permanent infantilization: ‘at sixty-four… tastes are what they were at seventeen.’
      • Or maybe it's really just the infantilization of men.
      • Like the infantilization of the foreigner, the passive, feminized Asian male is a stereotype.
      • I've talked before about the infantilization of the youth here.

Definition of infantilize in US English:

infantilize

(British infantilise)
verbinˈfantilīzɪnˈfæntɪlaɪz
[with object]
  • Treat (someone) as a child or in a way which denies their maturity in age or experience.

    把…当孩子对待;不把…当大人看待

    seeing yourself as a victim infantilizes you
    Example sentencesExamples
    • But how long must we infantilize the very people we're building sites for?
    • I worry about infantilized responses, especially when higher education is trying to shape analytic and critical thinking skills.
    • Yet Blair felt unfulfilled, partly because Kelly tended to infantilise her.
    • No other film-maker conveys so clearly how the bullying communist regime infantilises its citizens and treats everyone like 12-year-olds.
    • Given this, it infantilizes him to ask us to root for him, as if he were a heart-touching runt.
    • Why infantilize young people who are entitled to every presumption of adulthood?
    • Another thought about the infantilisation of teens: perhaps the problem is less that we infantilize them than that we treat them like adults before they're ready.
    • Finally, corporate HQ had alienated its store managers through infantilizing incentives schemes, and irritated its employees with oppressive ‘loss prevention’ policies.
    • No one infantilizes adults more than the conservatives and the extreme right.
    • The colonized are infantilized: children are children and they dominate the film.
    • What a godsend to infantilizing irresponsibility that era was.
    • I think we have to be careful when we see or represent a woman who does not behave as society expects her to so that we don't infantilize her.
    • Korean young people are infantilized throughout most of their lives.
    • I'd just lost my mind and I was infantilised and it was very depressing.
    • She never at any point villainizes, criticizes, or infantilizes adolescents' beliefs and experiences; her tone is at all times respectful.
    • The exploitation claim is yet another example of a mentality that finds exploitation everywhere even as it infantilizes the folks it purports to speak for.
    • Does the birth of your children infantilize you?
    • Perhaps the adults [who implemented the codes] are responsible for infantilizing speech.
    • Any culture is infantilized, necessarily, when its members are denied the power to enter into adult commitments - to own, to vote, to defend one's country, to marry.
    • To excuse Carr on the grounds of female weakness is to infantilise her and, by implication, womankind…
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