legitimizes

英 [lɪˈdʒɪtəmaɪzɪz]

美 [lɪˈdʒɪtəmaɪzɪz]

v.  使(坏事或不正当的事)看起来可以接受; 使合法; 赋予(非婚生子)合法权利
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柯林斯词典

The spellings legitimise in British English, and legitimatize in American English are also used. 亦拼作legitimise（英国英语）和legitimatize（美国英语）。


• VERB 使（尤其是坏事）合法化；正式批准（或认可）；证明…为有理（或正当）
  Tolegitimizesomething, especially something bad, means to officially allow it, approve it, or make it seem acceptable.
  1. They will accept no agreement that legitimizes the ethnic division of the country...
     他们不会接受任何使国家民族分裂合法化的协议。
  2. Images which glorify violence and cruelty, serve to legitimise such behaviour.
     这些美化暴力和暴行的图片，就是要使此等行为合理化。

双语例句

• They will accept no agreement that legitimizes the ethnic division of the country
  他们不会接受任何使国家民族分裂合法化的协议。
• It legitimizes discussions of a taboo topic ( layoffs).
  它使得关于一个禁忌话题（解雇）的讨论合理化了。
• And it is the Renaissance which, for the first time, not only affirms but formally legitimizes and rationalizes these three forms of subjectivity.
  是文艺复兴第一次，不仅确认了而且将这三种主观性的形式正式合理化、理性化。
• The proposal of SDT welds the idea of "basing on the people" into the Party's guiding documents and legitimizes the all-round development of humans.
  科学发展观的提出，使以人为本的思想得以写入党的纲领性文献，并使人的全面发展的合法性地位得以确立。
• This paradigm legitimizes new methods, practices and tools, new values, new behaviors, new perceptions and new perspectives with respect to software development processes.
  这种模式认可了关于软件开发过程的新方法、新实践和工具、新价值、新行为、新观念和新视角。
• Its evidence legitimizes the need to negotiate with non-health sectors, to argue for health in all government policies, and to stress the importance of upstream prevention.
  其证据为与非卫生部门进行谈判、争取在所有政府政策中列入卫生问题以及强调上游预防重要性的需求提供了合法的基础。