Amend
[ə'mend] or [ə'mɛnd]
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To change or modify in any way for the better
(v. t.) by simply removing what is erroneous, corrupt, superfluous, faulty, and the like;
(v. t.) by supplying deficiencies;
(v. t.) by substituting something else in the place of what is removed; to rectify.
(v. i.) To grow better by rectifying something wrong in manners or morals; to improve.
卡梅拉整理
同義詞及近義詞:
v. a. Improve, mend, emend, correct, rectify, reform, AMELIORATE.
v. n. Improve, mend, become better.
弗洛整理
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Improve, mend, repair, correct, rectify, better, ameliorate, reform
ANT:Deteriorate, degenerate, neglect, aggravate, tarnish, blemish, spoil, corrupt,vitiate, impair, mar
手打:苏珊
解釋/意思:
v.t. to correct: to improve: to alter in detail as a bill before parliament often so fundamentally as to overthrow entirely the thing originally proposed.—v.i. to grow or become better.—adjs. Amend′able Amend′atory corrective.—n. Amend′ment correction: improvement: an alteration proposed on a bill under consideration: a counter-proposal put before a public meeting: a counter-motion.—n.pl. Amends′ supply of a loss: compensation: reparation.
編輯:思朋斯
例句/造句/用法:
- It would seem that the manuscript is here imperfect, for we do not find the reasons which finally induce the curtal Friar to amend the King's cheer. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Confess this minute, sir,' said Bella, 'that you did it to correct and amend me! 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Arriving at the conclusion that it certainly was, he turned his back upon the scenes of the past, resolved to amend it in some new sphere of action. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- We shall cheer her sorrows, said Prince John, and amend her blood, by wedding her to a Norman. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Then John Jarndyce discovers that Ada and I must break off and that if I don't amend that very objectionable course, I am not fit for her. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- I can now only confess and endeavour to amend. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- I must temperately but firmly call upon you, sir, to amend that question. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Upon this compulsion, Mr. Godfrey made an effort, and came out with a new and amended version of the affair, to the following effect. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Well, hardly ever, he amended and went on reading the letters. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- They amended and reconstructed, they had their fashions and their phases of negligence. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- He knelt before ten cardinals in scarlet, an assembly august enough to overawe truth itself, while he amended the creation he had disarranged. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- At first it gave Home Rule to all Ireland; but an Amending Act, excluding Ulster on certain conditions, was promised. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Mrs. Bulstrode did not wish to go nearer to the facts than in the phrase make some amends; knowing that her husband must understand her. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Her idea was my refuge in disappointment and distress, and made some amends to me, even for the loss of my friend. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- It seems to me, after maturely thinking it over, that the best amends for having got out of the square is to get back into the square. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- This was the way I brought myself to think, mother, that my best amends was to lie upon that bed I had made, and die upon it. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- At that instant, she felt that years of happiness could not make Jane or herself amends for moments of such painful confusion. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- I told the gentleman at first, when he told me upstairs it was come to light, that I would answer for your being umble, and making amends. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- I would rather do without something for ourselves, to make some amends to my poor brother's family. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
編輯:罗德里克