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单词 Africanize
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Definition of Africanize in English:

Africanize

(British Africanise)
verb ˈafrɪk(ə)nʌɪzˈæfrəkəˌnaɪz
[with object]
  • 1Make African in character.

    使非洲化

    in his attempt to Africanize his novel, he deconstructs the French language
    Example sentencesExamples
    • This was a cultural campaign to Africanise French names.
    • It was just a harbinger of things to come–a universe of Africanized music in which rhythmic development through altered repetition would replace melodic, harmonic, and even lyrical variation as the primary element in moving a song from beginning to middle to end.
    • There is no need to Africanise our indigenous music to support some obscure theory of ‘African cultural retentions.’
    • But the campaign to Africanize cyberspace is not all about the bottom line.
    • By Africanizing or ritualizing common western objects, he constructs bridges to other times and cultures.
    • A lot of African countries have become banana republics because they tend to be emotional, to Africanize just for the sake of it.
    • This was a small beginning, but it was at least a start upon which others could build later in Africanizing the Service.
    • Kevin is a composer who, if anything, has tried to Africanize Western music.
    • Their Latin-based sets may have derived from Cuba but their novel move was to Africanize the music.
    • "Africanized" music is a formal challenge to traditional Western narratives of progress.
    1. 1.1 (in Africa) restructure (an organization) by replacing white employees with black Africans.
      (非洲)以非洲黑人替代白种雇员重组(组织)
      we recognize the need to Africanize the civil service in preparation for independence
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Of greater importance was Britain's decision to Africanize the police.
      • The aim is to 'Africanize' forest management by training local specialists to take over from their expatriate counterparts.
      • If the local populace links the company with efforts to Africanize its staff, they will be much more cooperative than if they viewed the newcomer as an exploiter of local labour.
      • An effort to Africanize the civil service and security forces as rapidly as possible complemented his drive for personal power.
      • In South Africa, a university president has drained the brains from Ghanain and Nigerian universities in order to Africanize his staff.
  • 2Hybridize (honeybees of European stock) with bees of African stock, producing an aggressive strain.

    将(欧洲品种的蜜蜂)与非洲品种的蜜蜂杂交(获得攻击性品系)

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Though a bloom lasts only about a day, each unbagged flower was visited on average by about 40 Africanized honeybees.
    • The ‘killer bee, ‘or Africanized honeybee, earned this fearsome nickname because of its aggressive, though not necessarily lethal nature.’
    • In all cases, we used samples of newly emerged adult workers to determine whether each colony was of European or Africanized descent.
    • Since then Africanized honeybees have spread over South and Central America and into the United States.
    • In the United States, it has been speculated, but not shown, that Africanized honeybees would hybridize extensively with European honeybees.

Derivatives

  • Africanization

  • noun afrɪk(ə)nʌɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)nˌæfrəkəˌnaɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n
    • From the 1960s, as newly independent African countries wrestled with the task of expanding school networks at primary and secondary level, the need for Africanisation of curricula became urgent for nation building.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • In the wake of independence, the process of Africanisation began in earnest.
      • The governments of both Kenya and Uganda adopted a policy of Africanisation.
      • He writes, ‘When I came to the Island I found there was much debate about the Africanisation of the name of the Island, Robben Island.’
      • The public services in South Africa have seen previous sweeping changes, following military and political victories; a significant phase of Africanization accompanied homeland self-government.

Definition of Africanize in US English:

Africanize

(British Africanise)
verbˈæfrəkəˌnaɪzˈafrəkəˌnīz
[with object]
  • 1Make African in character.

    使非洲化

    in his attempt to Africanize his novel, he deconstructs the French language
    Example sentencesExamples
    • This was a cultural campaign to Africanise French names.
    • "Africanized" music is a formal challenge to traditional Western narratives of progress.
    • This was a small beginning, but it was at least a start upon which others could build later in Africanizing the Service.
    • Kevin is a composer who, if anything, has tried to Africanize Western music.
    • It was just a harbinger of things to come–a universe of Africanized music in which rhythmic development through altered repetition would replace melodic, harmonic, and even lyrical variation as the primary element in moving a song from beginning to middle to end.
    • By Africanizing or ritualizing common western objects, he constructs bridges to other times and cultures.
    • But the campaign to Africanize cyberspace is not all about the bottom line.
    • Their Latin-based sets may have derived from Cuba but their novel move was to Africanize the music.
    • A lot of African countries have become banana republics because they tend to be emotional, to Africanize just for the sake of it.
    • There is no need to Africanise our indigenous music to support some obscure theory of ‘African cultural retentions.’
    1. 1.1 (in Africa) restructure (an organization) by replacing white employees with black Africans.
      (非洲)以非洲黑人替代白种雇员重组(组织)
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Of greater importance was Britain's decision to Africanize the police.
      • If the local populace links the company with efforts to Africanize its staff, they will be much more cooperative than if they viewed the newcomer as an exploiter of local labour.
      • An effort to Africanize the civil service and security forces as rapidly as possible complemented his drive for personal power.
      • The aim is to 'Africanize' forest management by training local specialists to take over from their expatriate counterparts.
      • In South Africa, a university president has drained the brains from Ghanain and Nigerian universities in order to Africanize his staff.
  • 2Hybridize (honeybees of European stock) with bees of African stock, producing an aggressive strain. In recent years hybrids have spread from Brazil to the US, where they have become known colloquially as “killer bees.”.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • In all cases, we used samples of newly emerged adult workers to determine whether each colony was of European or Africanized descent.
    • Though a bloom lasts only about a day, each unbagged flower was visited on average by about 40 Africanized honeybees.
    • The ‘killer bee, ‘or Africanized honeybee, earned this fearsome nickname because of its aggressive, though not necessarily lethal nature.’
    • In the United States, it has been speculated, but not shown, that Africanized honeybees would hybridize extensively with European honeybees.
    • Since then Africanized honeybees have spread over South and Central America and into the United States.
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