make repairs or adjustments to;

"You should overhaul your car engine"

become technologically advanced;

"Many countries in Asia are now developing at a very fast pace"

"Viet Nam is modernizing rapidly"

The Russians argue that extending the lease will allow it to modernise the fleet.

俄国人认为延长租约的期限将允许对这个舰队进行现代化改造。

A bill to modernise unemployment insurance has already passed the House of Representatives, though it languishes in the Senate.

一个对失业保险进行现代化改进的议案已经得到了众议院的通过，不过在参议院却经历了反复的论证。

Our local postmen appear to do a conscientious job but the organisation urgently needs to modernise and scrap archaic working practices.

我们本地的邮差看上去勤勤恳恳，但整个企业迫切需要施行现代化，摒弃陈旧的工作方式。

If it works, it would help to modernise the entire economy.

这项改革一旦实施起效，将有助于整体经济的现代化进程。

We must also fundamentally reform and modernise our regulatory architecture and authorities.

我们还必须从根本上改革我们的监管架构和机构，使其现代化。

Mr Guriev suggests that the reason Russia has failed to modernise is that its ruling class can pocket rents from things as they are.

Guriev表示俄罗斯之所以无法现代化是因为其统治阶层可以轻松地进行权力寻租。

Promises of help to modernise the Polish armed forces (「 we provide the boys, you provide the boots 」as a Polish official once put it) have proved frustratingly empty.

波兰军队现代化的承诺(某波兰官员表示，我方出人，你方训练)也成为空谈，让人沮丧。

It added that 「these funds will mainly be used to modernise the army」—an even more terse explanation than China’s normally opaque budgets are wont to give on military matters.

他同时提到”这些资金将主要用于建设现代化的军队“——这是中方在军事事物惯用的比正式难懂的财政预算更为简明扼要的说辞。

The report urges countries to repair and modernise irrigation systems and use better drip-fed farming.

报告敦促各国修葺和现代化灌溉系统，使用更好的滴灌农业。

Local leaders have ambitious plans to develop new port facilities and hotels, and to modernise the dry dock.

当地的领导人也有宏伟的计划，要将此处打造成为一个具有全新港口设施和旅馆的现代化干船坞。

Also this week he told French ambassadors to go out and tell the world that he is determined to modernise France and efface its image as rigid and protectionist.

也是在这周，他告诉法国的大使们到世界各国向全世界宣讲他推进法国现代化的决心，并淡化法国顽固不化和贸易保护主义的固有形象。

In the long term Mr Putin「s refusal to modernise his country will weaken Russia.

长远来看，普金拒绝将他的国家现代化的做法将削弱俄罗斯的实力。

The Russian Army」s need to modernise its arms and equipment also creates many opportunities for market development.

俄罗斯陆军对于武器装备的现代化需求也创造了许多市场发展机会。

There is more work to do to implement G20 commitments to reform financial systems, modernise and resource the international financial institutions and support developing countries.

在兑现G20的承诺方面也有更多工作要做，包括改革金融体系、为国际金融机构提供资源、推动其现代化进程，以及为发展中国家提供支持。

It has belatedly started a programme to modernise roads and railways (2,000km of new fast roads will be built by 2012, when Poland and Ukraine co-host the European football championships).

政府已经延时启动一项公路铁路现代化的工程。(当波兰与乌克兰在2012年公同举办欧洲足球锦标赛时，长达2000千米的高速路将建成通车)。

Anna Diamantopoulou, the education minister, accepted a tough brief: to modernise the system without challenging the state’s monopoly of higher education (a reform too far for the socialists).

教育部长AnnaDiamantopoulou接受了一个更严峻的情况：在不挑战政府对高等教育的垄断下使教育体制现代化（这个改革对社会主义者太极端了）。

The common conviction of nearly all these commentators is that no country can modernise without following a western path.

几乎所有的评论家们都有一个共识，那就是没有国家能够依照西方化以外的方式来实现现代化。

A decade ago a few brave souls tried to use the emerging power of the Internet to modernise this fragmented and frustrating business.

大约十年前，一些勇敢的先行者尝试利用新生的网络力量来使这个支离破碎和令人沮丧的行业赶上现代化的班车。