2019-10-09 mobilize

1. 这是个什么词？

词：mobilize

英英释义：to start to use the things or people you have available in order to achieve something

例句：China is good at mobilizing state resources to ensure that sports games and other big events go according to plan.

2. 为什么选这个词？

“mobilize”是动词，意思是“动员、组织、调动”。很明显，mobilize 和 mobile 同源，比较好记。看到这个词，我们一般会想到政府调动资源，但个人利用自己的影响力做某事也可以使用 mobilize。下面我们来通过一些具体例子掌握它的用法。

我们经常会提到领导力，其中很重要的一部分是组织动员能力，可以说：

Part of leadership is the ability to mobilize others and all the resources available effectively.

我们常常会说举全国之力，办好某某赛事，就可以说：

China is good at mobilizing state resources to ensure that sports games and other big events go according to plan.

在前不久很火的 Netflix 纪录片《美国工厂》中，一部分美国工人动员其他工友组建工会，但最终失败。想表达这个意思就可以说：

In American Factory, a popular Netflix documentary, a few American workers tried to mobilize the workforce against their employer but failed eventually.

下面来看《经济学人》中的几个例子：

1）Such plans are costly, as is investment needed in things like reinforced harbours and desalination plants to adapt to the climate changes the island states are already seeing. So mobilising finance is another priority.

2）He also mobilised a bit of aid for fires in the Amazon, though that fell through in a spat with Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s president.（这里的主语指的是法国总统马克龙）

3）In 1994 Yegor Gaidar, the architect of Russia’s market reforms, argued that there were two ways for Russia to turn to the West. It could try to catch up with the West by mobilising state resources—the model followed from Peter the Great to the 1930s, at great human cost. Or it could try to become truly Western by “taming the state” and developing the sort of institutions which stimulate entrepreneurship and long-term growth.

4） It was the day the temperature reached a French all-time record of 45.9°C (114.6°F). At the station in the sleepy Provençal town of Orange, a high-speed TGV train was being held indefinitely due to forest fires farther down the track, and passengers were wilting in the stifling heat. So the station master mobilised a human chain to shift box after box of bottled water from his store room to the train.

3. 怎样学会使用这个词？

翻译下面的句子：

这个国家贫穷是因为它没有有效利用资源。

（参考翻译：The country is poor because it has failed to mobilize its resources effectively.) 

造句：

People in Hongkong, mobilized by the idea of seeking rights and freedoms to express themselves, parade everywhere.