Enable
[ɪn'eɪb(ə)l;en-] or [ɪ'nebl]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) render capable or able for some task; 'This skill will enable you to find a job on Wall Street'; 'The rope enables you to secure yourself when you climb the mountain'.
凯西整理--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To give strength or ability to; to make firm and strong.
(v. t.) To make able (to do, or to be, something); to confer sufficient power upon; to furnish with means, opportunities, and the like; to render competent for; to empower; to endow.
哈利整理
同義詞及近義詞:
v. a. Empower, qualify, capacitate, make able, make capable, render capable.
錄入:李莉斯
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Empower, strengthen, qualify
ANT:Disqualify, hinder, disable
錄入:泽维尔
解釋/意思:
v.t. to make able: to give power strength or authority to.
格温錄入
例句/造句/用法:
- Nothing but concern for Elizabeth could enable Bingley to keep his countenance. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- It will require a very great one to enable them to do so in the rude produce of the soil. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Just the reason why we should take something to enable us to bear up against the fatigue,' remonstrated Mr. Bob Sawyer. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Presently he stopped and picked out a square piece of board, such as is usually left to enable plumbers to get at the joints of the gas-pipes. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- This little rectory CAN do no more than make Mr. Ferrars comfortable as a bachelor; it cannot enable him to marry. 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- It might undoubtedly enable me to put four horses to my carriage; but what would it avail me to have it said that Sir Humphrey drives his carriage and four? 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- Come, said Adrian, I have promised for you, enable me to keep my engagement. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- So convenient a thing it is to be a _reasonable creature_, since _it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do_. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- I found the ash of a cigar, which my special knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian cigar. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- It is the constructive, creative power which raises man above the level of the beast and enables him to devise and fashion wonderful inventions. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- As he came into the circle of dim light which enables me to see him more clearly I was thrilled with horror at his appearance. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- It is really the presence or absence of overtones which enables us to distinguish the note of the piano from that of the violin, flute, or clarinet. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- A careful study of these reports enables one to forecast to some extent the probable weather conditions of the day. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- Nothing but the strength of his purpose enables him to make it. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- This, rising above the water, and provided with reflecting lenses, enabled the steersman to discover the surface conditions and see any near vessel or other object. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- An acquaintance with the apprentices of booksellers enabled me sometimes to borrow a small one, which I was careful to return soon and clean. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- We shall, however, be enabled to discuss what circumstances are most favourable to variation. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- The more diversified in habits and structure the descendants of our carnivorous animals become, the more places they will be enabled to occupy. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- Then let it be so,' rejoined Rose; 'it is but one pang the more, and by that time I may be enabled to bear it better. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- This enabled the enemy to bring almost his entire strength into the field. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- It would afford us the highest gratification to be enabled to record Mr. Pickwick's opinion of the foregoing anecdote. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- The important feature of this boat was a diver’s compartment, enabling divers to leave the vessel when submerged, for the purpose of operating on wrecks or performing other undersea duties. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Holley of the United States improved the Bessemer apparatus by enabling a greater number of charges to be converted into steel within a given time. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Flint glass contains lead; the lead makes the glass dense, and gives it great refractive power, enabling it to bend and separate light in all directions. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- The strength of that passion had been a power enabling him to master all the knowledge necessary to gratify it. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- It is a similar certificate, enabling him and his daughter and her child, at any time, to pass the barrier and the frontier! 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- Such machines, costing nearly a thousand dollars, produce from forty to sixty barrels of crackers a day, enabling them to be sold at about 5 cents a pound at retail. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- All language can achieve is to act as a guidepost to the imagination enabling the reader to recreate the author's insight. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
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