modernizer 现代化主义者
- Modernizers felt Anglican priests would be more effective if they appeared in less formal attire.
主张现代化的人士觉得英国国教的神父若是以不太正式的装束出现在人们面前,其工作会更有效果。 - At the heart of this story is a battle between Western enlightenment and obscurantism. But in fact, Turkey's real dichotomy has always been between its westernizers and its modernizers.
虽然表面上斗争是围绕着西方启蒙主义和宗教蒙昧主义为中心展开的,但实际是导致了土耳其政局的改变---一分为二为西方派和现代改革派。 - Though he was long a hero of the country's modernizers, it was only after World War II that Lincoln's democratic ideas received their due.
他一直是作为国家现代化的推动者被尊敬,直到二战之后,林肯的民主思想才在那里得到应用。 同样的可塑性也在中国大陆和台湾地区对林肯的引用中体现出来。
Modernizer \Mod"ern*i`zer\, n.
One who modernizes.