流逝汉英词典

mend

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音标发音

  • 英式音标 [mend]
  • 美式音标 [mɛnd]
  • 国际音标 [mend]
  • 英式发音
  • 美式发音

基本解释

  • vt.修理；修补；改进
  • vi.改过自新；改进；痊愈
  • n.修补；改进；修补处

词源解说

  • 1200年左右进入英语，直接源自古法语的amender，意为改正，改进，修正。

同根派生

  • n性质的同根词
    mending：修补；修补工作。
    mender：修改者，修理者；修缮者。
  • v性质的同根词
    mending：修补（mend的现在分词）；修理。

用法辨析

    v. (动词)

  • mend的基本意思是“修理〔补〕”,常指使由于穿用而破碎的、撕裂的、破损的衣服、鞋、帽等具体物品重新完整或坚固起来,含有不需要高超的技艺或特殊的设备的意味。用于抽象事物可表示“恢复”“康复”“改〔纠〕正”“改善〔进〕”等,这时不强调手段,而强调结果。
  • mend既可用作不及物动词,也可用作及物动词。用作及物动词时,多表示“修理”“修补”,接名词或代词作宾语; 用作不及物动词时,常表示“好转,恢复”,还可用于生物体受伤部位自动接合或愈合。
  • mend可用于被动结构。

英汉例句

    用作动词 (v.)

    用作不及物动词: S+～(+A)

  • I've been mending all night.
    我缝补了一夜。

    • 用作及物动词: S+～+ n./pron.

  • Will you please mend the sleeve of my blouse?
    请你把我衬衣的袖子补一下好吗?

    • 其他: v -ed as o-Compl.

  • I had my shoes mended.
    我已让人修了我的鞋。

词组短语

    用作动词 (v.)

    ～+名词

  • mend a bicycle 修自行车
  • mend a broken cup 修补一只坏杯子
  • mend a chair 修椅子
  • mend a clock 修钟
  • mend a plow 修犁

英英字典

    剑桥英英字典

  • to repair something that is broken or damaged
  • a place in a piece of clothing where a repair has been made

    • 柯林斯英英字典

  • If you mend a tear or a hole in a piece of clothing, you repair it by sewing it.
  • If a person or a part of their body mends or is mended, they get better after they have been ill or have had an injury.
  • If you try to mend divisions between people, you try to end the disagreements or quarrels between them.
  • If you mend something that is broken or not working, you repair it, so that it works properly or can be used.
  • If a relationship or situation is on the mend after a difficult or unsuccessful period, it is improving.
  • If you are on the mend after an illness or injury, you are recovering from it.
  • If someone who has been behaving badly mends their ways, they begin to behave well.

专业释义

    电子、通信与自动控制技术

  • 改进

    Then, the theory, principle, method and characteristic of genetic algorithm (GA) are introduced. Moreover, it explains how to mend GA to improve its performance.
    其次,介绍了遗传算法的理论、原理、方法和特点,以及如何对其进行改进以改善遗传算法的性能,着重介绍了在交叉概率和变异概率中引入自适应策略的自适应遗传算法。

    语言学

  • 修理

    • 医药科学

  • 修补