单词modernise
v.: 使（制度、方法等）现代化；使（设备、概念等）现代化
网络: 使现代化；现代爱情
使（制度、方法等）现代化:
to make a system, methods, etc. more modern and more suitable for use at the present time
使（设备、概念等）现代化:
to start using modern equipment, ideas, etc.
现代化
Many doubted whether the King of Macao would be able to modernise a family empire accustomed to operating in a vacuum.
许多人怀疑，澳门赌王是否有能力使其习惯于在真空中经营的家族帝国实现现代化。
A decade ago a few brave souls tried to use the emerging power of the internet to modernise this fragmented and frustrating business.
大约十年前，一些勇敢的先行者尝试利用新生的网络力量来使这个支离破碎和令人沮丧的行业赶上现代化的班车。
Rapid economic growth and a desire to modernise agriculture is stimulating demand for pork and high-quality breeding pigs.
飞速增长的经济以及实现农业现代化的强烈愿望，刺激着国内市场对猪肉及优质种猪的需求。
Such skills, however, do not mean that the newcomers will modernise the party or democratise Chinese politics.
但是，此类技能并不意味着这些新人将会对中国共产党进行现代化改造，或推动中国政治民主化。
One of the forgotten victims of the financial crash was the project to "modernise" the Tory party.
保守党“现代化”的计划成为在金融危机中被遗忘的一个牺牲品。
Thus discussion focused on different ways to modernise, but did not question the goal itself.
因此，讨论的焦点是实现现代化的不同方式，而不是对这一目标本身的质疑。
As for Europe, it says that the bloc needs to sort out a common defence strategy and modernise its economy - arguments still made today.
谈到欧洲，书中表示，该地区需要制定一个共同的防务战略，并加快经济现代化步伐，这些说法如今依然适用。
Over the next two decades appetite for metals is likely to double as China and India urbanise and modernise.
过去十年里，中国和印度两国城市化和现代化过程，对金属的需求增长了一倍。
It started with a plan to modernise and a determination to do so faster that ever before.
首先，中国制定了一项现代化计划，并决心以前所未有的速度将其付诸实施。
Yes, Yes, a girl. But I can see that the world has changed, and one must. . . modernise.
是啊，是啊，我当时还是个姑娘。不过，我还能看到世界是变化了，一个人必须……现代化。