naturalise
naturalise — 動詞
- naturalisepresent simple I / you / we / they
- naturalises3rd person singular
- naturalising-ing form
- naturalisedpast simple
1. to officially give a foreign-born person the full legal right to belong to a cou
歸化；入籍
使非本國出生者取得合法公民身分
to officially give a foreign-born person the full legal right to belong to a country, so that they share the same status as people born there
After ten years in Canada, Ziad was finally naturalised as a citizen last spring.
在加拿大住了十年後，Ziad 終於在去年春天歸化成為公民。
passive: be naturalised as a citizen
The new law allows the government to naturalise people who marry a local resident.
這項新法律允許政府讓與本地居民結婚的人入籍。
naturalise + people as object
Esme studied the rules carefully before applying to be naturalised in Australia.
Esme 在申請歸化澳洲之前，仔細研究了相關規定。
Thousands of refugees hope the country will naturalise them within a few short years.
成千上萬的難民希望這個國家能在短短幾年內讓他們入籍。
The judge naturalised more than forty new citizens at the ceremony on Friday morning.
週五早上的典禮上，法官讓四十多名新公民完成入籍。
- nationalise
rare in this citizenship sense and easily confused with state ownership of industry; avoid for clarity
- denaturalise
to take away a citizenship that was previously granted
文法句型
be naturalised as a citizen
naturalise someone
用法筆記
Frequently passive: a person is naturalised by a state, so the country or its courts are the typical subject of the active form. The object is always a human applicant, not an object or animal.