legitimize

verb

1. 使（坏事或不正当的事）看起来可以接受
   to make sth that is wrong or unfair seem acceptable
   1. The movie has been criticized for apparently legitimizing violence.
      这部电影因明显地美化暴力而受到了指责。
2. 使合法
   to make sth legal
3. 赋予（非婚生子）合法权利
   to give a child whose parents are not married to each other the same rights as those whose parents are

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）。


1. 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）
   To legitimize something, 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。

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. If I cannot legitimize our former relations at least I can assist you.
   即使我们不能使我们过去的关系合法化，我至少也能帮助你。
3. Edited by Bekoff, who says it will finally "legitimize" research on animal emotions.
   柏柯夫担任此书编辑，他认为这将最终“认可”动物情感的研究。
4. While the US Constitution marks these programs as illegal, my government argues that secret court rulings, which the world is not permitted to see, somehow legitimize an illegal affair.
   虽然美国宪法将这样的项目列为非法，但美国政府认为，在世界不允许发现的、秘密法庭的裁决下，某种程度上可以使得这种非法的事情合法化。
5. Last year, Penguin became the first major trade press to go vanity: its Book Country e-imprint will legitimize your original genre fiction for just under$ 100.
   去年，企鹅成为第一家赶时髦的大型出版商：它旗下的书国电子印刷只需花费你不到一百美元就能正式出版你的原创类型小说。
6. If IBM can help legitimize the use of iPhones and iPads in enterprise, BlackBerry will be left with nowhere else to go.
   如果在IBM的帮助下，iPhone和iPad在企业里成了主流，那么黑莓就再没有地方可去了。
7. Because of this, Ai has managed to greatly legitimize the act of citizen filming, showing people that they have the right to film and record, as well as the right to scrutinize.
   因此，他非常有力地强化了公民拍摄的合法性，就是我有权拍摄，我有权监督。
8. And use gambling to legitimize it?
   用来赌博使之合法化？
9. The queen and I will sign a treaty that will legitimize our occupation here.
   我要女王和我签署一个协议，使这行动合法化。
10. I'll be able to legitimize everything.
    我就能让任何东西变合法。
11. Mussolini's use of symbols from ancient Rome to try to legitimize fascist policies.
    墨索里尼企图使法西斯政策正当化而使用古罗马的标志。
12. Those pre-conditions would apply that we wouldn't legitimize with a face to face meeting, a person like Ahmadinejad.
    而那些前提条件涉及我们不会以面对面的会议去合法化，类似于内贾德那样的人。
13. They decided to legitimize their business relationship.
    他们决定使他们的商业关系合法化。
14. Contractor "Jack" wants the government to legitimize a critical labor force.
    承包商杰克希望政府使这部分重要的劳动力合法化。
15. Grails aims to address those concerns and legitimize rapid application development ( RAD) for the enterprise.
    Grails旨在解决那些关注点，并证明快速应用开发（RAD）对企业是可行的。
16. On the other hand, if God does not exist, we find no values or commands to turn to which legitimize our conduct.
    另一方面，如果上帝不存在，我们便找不到可参照的价值或可服从的命令来认可自己的行为。
17. I think the greatest threat will be the day the Party fails to provide growth for the people ( which WILL come some day) and needs to find a different way to legitimize their rule.
    我认为现在最大的威胁是党没有办法为人们提供更多的发展空间（早晚会到来）和如何找到不同的方式把他们的统治合法化。
18. In the ensuing Sui dynasty, Confucianism and Taoism were again fused with Buddhism to legitimize it.
    接下来的隋朝，统治者又将儒教道教与佛教混合起来合法化其权利。
19. Especially in Egypt, it was intended to legitimize the privileged status of the Hellene relative to the "native" Egyptian.
    特别是在埃及，这是相对于“本土”埃及的人来说所拥有的特权地位。
20. During the May Fourth Movement, tradition was not used as a knowledge resource to legitimize the political system, but began to change from a knowledge to an academic resource.
    透过《新青年》文本可知，五四一代关于传统的立场，主要体现在不把传统作为政治制度合法性的知识资源，传统也因此呈现由知识资源向学术资源的过渡。
21. Efforts have been made in this paper to discuss the national duty for compensation in the perspective of legal philosophy and to justify and legitimize the institution of national compensation for criminal victims.
    文章从法哲学的视角论证国家应当承担补偿义务，并论证设置犯罪被害人国家补偿制度的正当性与合法性。
22. We should improve the standard of management to legitimize cyber management, and to humanize services and to make the team of management specialized.
    要在管理水平上提升，做到网络管理法制化、管理服务人性化、管理队伍专业化。
23. Legitimize the Promotion of the Development of Circular Economy
    依法推进循环经济发展
24. The dissertation points out that the exemption from the antimonopoly laws in substance is to legitimize the given restraints of competition and to give the legitimacy to the given form or activity.
    反垄断法豁免实质上就是对限制竞争行为的合法化，使特定主体的某个行为或某类行为获得合法性。
25. The system of the presumption and negation of natural children and the system of claim and legitimation of natural children are provisions in most countries 'legislations, which formally legitimize the relative equal status of natural children.
    许多国家法律中规定了非婚生子女的推定与否认制度、非婚生子女的认领与准正制度，在形式上给予了非婚生子女相对较为平等的法律地位。
26. The focus has shifted from efforts to legitimize competition laws as a necessary element of universal economic policy to the pursuit of internationally acceptable and effective means for assuring and regulating business competition on a global scale.
    过去制定竞争法被认为是普遍经济政策的要素，现在的焦点则转向追求能够被各国所接受的保护和管理全球竞争的有效方法。

verb

1. make legal
   1. Marijuana should be legalized

   Synonym:    legalizelegalisedecriminalizedecriminaliselegitimiselegitimatelegitimatizelegitimatise