capitalize

1. V-I If you capitalize on a situation, you use it to gain some advantage for yourself. 利用

The rebels seem to be trying to capitalize on the public's discontent with the government. 反叛者們似乎正試圖利用公眾對(duì)政府的不滿情緒。

2. V-T In business, if you capitalize something that belongs to you, you sell it in order to make money. 使資本化[商業(yè)]

Our intention is to capitalize the company by any means we can. 我們的目的是盡一切可能把該公司資本化。

3. V-T If you capitalize a letter, you write it as a capital letter. If you capitalize a word, you spell it in capital letters, or with the first letter as a capital letter. 把…大寫(xiě)

Capitalize all proper nouns but not the articles (a, an) that precede them. 把所有的專(zhuān)有名詞大寫(xiě)，它們之前的冠詞(a, an)則不用。