0 to try to find reasons to explain your behaviour, decisions, etc. -- 合理地解釋（行為、決定等），為…找出合理的理由；就…辯解
1 to make a company, way of working, etc. more effective, usually by combining or stopping particular activities, or (of a company, way of working, etc.) to become more effective in this way -- （對…）進行合理化改革；使合理化
The prophetic model facilitated and rationalized social changes, whereas the principle of descent facilitated and rationalized the maintenance of status and its transmission to succeeding generations.
Despite an attempt at rationalizing the fiscal system, the politics of votes, threats and bargaining appears to have crept into even the institutions specifically designed to overcome such politicization.
However, there is much sense in rationalizing the many hundreds of potentially useful species into a list of those food crops that have the greatest development potential and regional importance.
If readers were not merely passive recipients of a newspaper's ideology, they were hardly immune to the attraction of printed ideas which rationalized their own interests.
The central guideline was formulated on the basis of rationalizing the overlap of the two kinds of agricultural taxes, the rationality of each of the two taken for granted.
By parts 3 and 4 of the theorem, if there is a utility function that rationalizes the data, it will have the properties typically assumed in consumer theory.
In other words it is the rhythmic plurality as found in concrete musical composition that is justified and rationalized by emanating from a trinitarian unity.
Pro-natal policies may have emerged from a multiplicity of factors rationalized by patriarchal ideological under pinnings, but not entirely ref lective of them.
