legitimise

1. 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。
2. But it may help legitimise and raise awareness of the desire for greater international currency diversification.
   但它可以帮助提升对需要让国际货币更加多元化的认识，并使之合法化。
3. Microsoft declined to comment on the commercial terms it had reached with these companies, or the precise methods it would use to legitimise PCs that have been using stolen software.
   微软拒绝评论其与这些公司达成的商业条款，或者它究竟将用什么方式让使用盗版软件的PC合法化。
4. Their role is to begin to allow market forces to affect the cost of money for banks and companies ahead of interest rate reform; WMPs also legitimise investments that have not yet been officially approved, or are banned in banking channels.
   它们的作用是在利率改革之前允许市场力量影响银行和企业的资金成本，以及将那些尚未被正式批准、或被银行渠道封杀的投资方式合法化。
5. If it comes to that, Scotland will be in a different position – one that could legitimise a split.
   若真到了那一步，苏格兰的处境将截然不同，届时苏格兰脱离英国将是合情合理的。
6. "I don't want to legitimise the process of my right to self-determination being trampled," he says.
   这是对我的自决权的践踏，我不希望为这个行为提供合法性。
7. That would legitimise our claims.
   那会使我们的说法更合法化。
8. So we are apprehensive as to whether the parliamentary political parties will only work to improve and institutionalise the house and legitimise it rather than moving ahead in the direction of a constituent assembly.
   因此我们理解为什么议会政党只是改善并使议会合法化而不是朝着制宪会议的方向前进。
9. Nor, on the other hand, if God does not exist, are we provided with any values or commands that could legitimise our behaviour.
   另一方面，假如上帝不存在，也就没有任何价值或命令给予我们以规范我们的行为。
10. This loya jirga is intended to legitimise the power sharing arrangement set up in Bonn and begin to iron out at least some of the inequalities in representation.
    这个大国民议会是一个在波恩建立起来的分配权利的安排，解决了一些代表席位不平均的问题。
11. But the effect, and intention, of the tacit compliance involved in superficial congeniality is to entrench a reality of power: to legitimise authority based only on the occupation of positions of authority.
    但蕴含在表面和气之中的那种心照不宣的顺从，其效果和意图是为了巩固一个权力现实：让纯粹建立在占据权力位置基础上的权力机关合法化。
12. The great irony of this is that one of the main reasons why the ADB still lends money to China is to bring higher governance and safety standards to the country – and thereby legitimise some of its own infrastructure projects.
    很有讽刺意味的是，亚行仍向中国提供贷款的主要原因之一，就是希望给中国带去更高的治理和安全标准，使中国国内的某些基础设施项目具备正当性。
13. They somehow legitimise misconduct and illegal behaviour-just as stock shrinkage as a description for staff theft somehow minimises the crime.
    它们会让不端行为和非法行为具有某种形式的合法性正如用库存缩水来描述员工盗窃，会在某种程度上弱化了这种犯罪行为的严重性。
14. Which enable him to legitimise his stance in his own eyes and to retain a false appearance of dignity.
    这一切，使得他有合法的姿态，又能用自己的眼睛，看清高尚外表下的虚伪。
15. Expert advice is used to legitimise government policies that have a significant effect on people's lives.
    专家建议被用来为给影响人们生活的政府政策的合理性辩护。
16. But while it has been designed to protect against land seizures, some fear it will legitimise the illegal land grabs that have already taken place.
    虽然这部法律旨在防止土地征收，有些人担心这将使已经被非法侵占的土地合法化。
17. Sometimes worldly rulers draw on religious symbolism to enforce their authority, impress their subjects or legitimise war.
    有些时候，世俗统治者利用宗教符号来强化其权威，打动其子民或是让战争合法化。
18. It is not hard to see how the law could be used to legitimise expropriation.
    不难想见，这部法律可以被挪作他用，以“合法充公”知识产权。
19. They endeavoured to legitimise that approach by invoking the concept of "substantial equivalence".
    它们试图通过运用“实质等同”（substantialequivalence）的概念将该方法合法化。
20. How does one legitimise a state built on the old KGB principles of force and fraud?
    一个建立在暴力和欺诈的老克格勃原则上的国家如何合法化？
21. Legitimise choices made in the Kremlin, it is Mr Putin who will decide who and what follow him, if he leaves office, as he is supposed to, in2008.
    不幸的是，在一个竞选沦落为克里姆林宫用来为其决策赋予合法性的工具的国度，是由普京来决定他2008年离任后由谁来接替他的职位，俄罗斯又会面临怎样的前途。
22. Finally, the fund would legitimise the creation of a trading exchange designed to ensure that emissions were reduced in the most cost-effective way.
    最后，这个基金组织将授权建立碳排放交易平台，以确保用最为成本有效的方法减排。
23. It aims to legitimise traditional knowledge and protect it from biopiracy and patent claims by providing information to patent offices for cross-checking of new applications.
    它致力于让传统知识合法化，并且通过向专利办公室提供信息用于交叉审查新专利申请从而保护传统知识不被生物剽窃和专利申请侵害。
24. Iran may be feeling the pressure but it has yet to legitimise or cease its nuclear activities.
    伊朗可能正感受到这种压力，但该国仍未终止核活动或在合法范围内从事这些活动。
25. These activists legitimise their cause by publishing opinion articles in professional journals and quoting each other liberally, while essentially ignoring the mainstream of science.
    这些活动家通过在专业杂志上发表观点文章并相互引用从而让他们的理由合法化，同时基本忽略科学的主流。
26. Specific grants or targeted benefits would help legitimise the caregiving role as well as directly help those who care.
    特别授权或者是直接拨款也许能帮助家庭照料者角色的合法化，也能够直接帮助那些需要帮助的人。
27. Now I ask you, how do you intend to legitimise that?
    现在我问你你准备怎样把它合法化？

verb

1. make legal
   1. Marijuana should be legalized

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