mend
n. 改进, 修补, 好转 vt. 修改, 改进, 加快, 修理 vi. 好转, 改善
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教材释义与例句
好转，改进；修补处
to be getting better after an illness or after a difficult period
修理，修补；改善；修改
to repair a tear or hole in a piece of clothing
释义与例句
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Senses relating to improvement or repairing.
An act of repairing.
可数 不可数My trousers have a big rip in them and need a mend.
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Senses relating to improvement or repairing.
A place in a thing (such as a tear in clothing) which has been repaired.
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Senses relating to improvement or repairing.
Chiefly in on the mend: improvement in health; recovery from illness.
可数 不可数1923, Ernest Bramah, The Eyes of Max Carrados " […] Then, as luck of one sort or another would have it, I got laid out with a broken ankle on a Bombay quay." Carrados voiced commiseration. "But you made a very good mend of it," he said.
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Recompense; restoration or reparation, especially (Christianity) from sin.
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To physically repair (something that is broken, defaced, decayed, torn, or otherwise damaged).
修补
修改
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及物My trousers have a big rip in them and need mending.
When your car breaks down, you can take it to the garage to have it mended.
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To add fuel to (a fire).
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To correct or put right (an error, a fault, etc.); to rectify, to remedy.
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To put (something) in a better state; to ameliorate, to improve, to reform, to set right.
比喻 及物Her stutter was mended by a speech therapist.
My broken heart was mended.
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To remove fault or sin from (someone, or their behaviour or character); to improve morally, to reform.
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In mend one's pace: to adjust (a pace or speed), especially to match that of someone or something else; also, to quicken or speed up (a pace).
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To correct or put right the defects, errors, or faults of (something); to amend, to emend, to fix.
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To increase the quality of (someone or something); to better, to improve on; also, to produce something better than (something else).
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To make amends or reparation for (a wrong done); to atone.
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To restore (someone or something) to a healthy state; to cure, to heal.
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To adjust or correctly position (something; specifically (nautical), a sail).
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To put out (a candle).
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To relieve (distress); to alleviate, to ease.
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To reform (oneself).
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To improve the condition or fortune of (oneself or someone).
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To repair the clothes of (someone).
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To cause (a person or animal) to gain weight; to fatten.
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Chiefly with the impersonal pronoun it: to provide a benefit to (someone); to advantage, to profit.
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Of an illness: to become less severe; also, of an injury or wound, or an injured body part: to get better, to heal.
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Of a person: to become healthy again; to recover from illness.
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Now only in least said, soonest mended: to make amends or reparation.
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Chiefly used together with make: to make repairs.
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To advance to a better state; to become less bad or faulty; to improve.
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To improve in amount or price.
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Followed by of: to recover from a bad state; to get better, to grow out of.
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Of an animal: to gain weight, to fatten.
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To advantage, to avail, to help.
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Of an error, fault, etc.: to be corrected or put right.
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To add one or more things in order to improve (something, especially wages); to supplement; also, to remedy a shortfall in (something).
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To become morally improved or reformed.
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词源
Partly: * (chiefly etymology 2 sense 2 (“recompense; restoration or reparation”)) from Middle English mend, mende (“cure, remedy; damages, recompense; atonement; penance; relief”), the aphetic form of amende, amendes (“retribution, amends; a fine; atonement; penance”) (though attested slightly earlier); or directly from its etymon Anglo-Norman amende, Middle French amende, and Old French amende (“a fine”) (modern French amende), from amender (verb) (see etymology 1); and * from mend (verb).
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