mend
美 [mend]
英 [mend] 
- v.修补;修理;愈合;缝补
- n.修理;改进;痊愈;修理部份
- 网络改善;改正;修正
词形变化
第三人称单数:mends 现在分词:mending 过去式:mended 反义词
同义词
英汉双解
1. | [t] ~ sth 修理;修补to repair sth that has been damaged or broken so that it can be used again |
| Could you mend my bike for me? 你能帮我修一下自行车吗? |
2. | [t] ~ sth 缝补;织补to repair a hole in a piece of clothing, etc. |
| He mended shoes for a living. 他靠修鞋为生。 |
3. | [t] ~ sth 弥合(分歧);解决(争端)to find a solution to a problem or disagreement |
| They tried to mend their differences. 他们试图消除他们之间的分歧。 |
4. | [i] 痊愈;恢复健康to improve in health after being ill/sick |
| He's mending slowly after the operation. 手术后,他正在缓慢好转。 |
习惯用语
mend (your) fences (with sb)
解决纷争;消除隔阂to find a solution to a disagreement with sb
mend your ways
改过自新;改邪归正to stop behaving badly
on the mend
康复;好转;改善;改进getting better after an illness or injury; improving after a difficult situation
| My leg is definitely on the mend now. 我的腿正在明显地好转。 |
| Does he believe the economy's really on the mend? 他相信经济确实在复苏吗? |
英汉解释
v. | 3. 加强;加快;加(火);增加...的引诱力[魔力,力量] 5. (事态过错,毛病等)变好,好转,改好,改善;痊愈 |
n. | |
英英解释
例句
"Someone will come round and take your rubbish away, or mend your fence. The next time he knocks it's to ask for your vote, " he says.
他说“有人会来看望你并清理掉你的垃圾,或者修补好你的篱笆,下次他就来敲门拉取你的选票”。
Having said he would mend the clock, he discovered that he had not brought the right tools for the job.
他说他能修钟,但发现没拿对工具。
His neighbor told him to mend the fence, but he did not think it was necessary.
邻居让他把羊圈修一修,可他认为没有必要。
He said the unit was on the mend with his appointment of David Sokol, chairman of MidAmerican Energy Holdings Co. , to its helm.
他说在他任命中美能源控股公司(MidAmericanEnergyHoldingsCo.)董事长索科尔(DavidSokol)执掌NetJets公司之后,其业务正在好转。
He said the nation was "starting 2012 with manufacturing on the rise and the American auto industry on the mend. "
他说,全国“2012年制造业开始处于上升周期,美国汽车业开始好转。”
Germany's Angela Merkel made clear two years ago that, if Russia wanted better relations with the EU, it had to mend fences with Poland.
德国总理安哥拉·默克尔两年前就清楚的说过,如果俄罗斯想与欧盟有进一步的合作,那就必须改善同波兰之间的关系。
Booth: You know what I'm trying to mend bridges here.
我很努力在架设沟通桥梁诶。
"After that, we will repair his chin and lower jaw and mend the lost part of his face with bones and skin from his own body, " said He.
陈医生还说:“在这之后,将对他的下颚何和下颌进行修复并用他自身的骨头和皮肤修复他脸部的其他缺失部分。”
In American English, mend is usually only used to talk aboout repairing things with holes in them, especially clothes and shoes.
美国英语中,mend通常只用于表示修理缝补物品上的洞,尤其是衣服和鞋上的。
He decided to mend his way after parole.
在得到假赦之后,他决心重。
At length the crisis of the old man's disorder was past, and he began to mend.
老人的危险期终于度过了,他开始痊愈起来。
One country trying to mend one part of its banking system will not work.
单一国家试图修正其银行系统某一方面的问题是徒劳的。
You know what I'm trying to mend bridges here.
你知道吗?我在试着和你沟通。
In the Telegraph interview, the chancellor said the British economy was "on the mend" .
在电讯报的采访中,该大臣说英国经济“正在转好”。
There isn't an hour of my life without you in it. I mend the boats, test them, and all the memories come in like the tide.
我生命中的每一分钟都有你。我修好了船,检查了它们…回忆就像海浪一样打过来。
The unification ministry admitted it was far less than needed but said the North must mend relations before shipments could be increased.
统一部承认,这远远低于需要的,但表示,朝鲜必须修补之前的出货量可能增加的关系。
In 1983, Cole checked herself into a recovery program, and was finally able to mend the wounds from her difficult past.
1983年,科尔报名参加了一个康复计划,旧日的创伤终于得以愈合。
The Dutch foreign minister Maxime Verhagen decided that the best way his country could start to mend fences was to say it with flowers.
荷兰外交大臣马克西姆·费尔哈根认为,对他们国家而言,提出修复双方关系的最好方式是通过鲜花。
Don't you think his car is making a strange noise? Tell him to mend it, please.
难道你不认为他的车正在发出奇怪的噪音吗?请告诉他修理一下。
Obama is also trying to mend the broken economy of the US after the recession, and just signed into law a financial regulatory reform act.
与此同时,奥巴马一直致力于复苏在经济危急中受创的美国经济,并为自己的财政改革措施争得了法律效力。
You had better ravel a bit of the left-over cloth to mend the tear in your trousers.
你最好拆散一小块碎布头来织补你的裤子。
If our industry fails to mend its ways, laws will be passed compelling us to do so.
如果我们这个行业失之检点,不能改过自新,就会引出一些法令逼着我们去做。
That won't mend matters.
那于事无补。
Can you mend this broken chair?
你能修理这把破椅子吗?
Marianne continued to mend every day.
玛丽安一天天继续好转
But privately, he is trying to mend fences with Washington and pull the Palestinians back to the negotiating table.
私下里,他正在试图修补与华盛顿的关系,并把巴勒斯坦人重新拉回到谈判桌前。
You had better ravel a bit of the left-over cloth to mend the tear in your trousers.
你最好拆散一小块碎布头来织补你的裤子。
She might have called a few former friends to apologize, and mend fences for past squabbles .
她可能还会给几位昔曰朋友打电话主动道歉,摒弃前嫌。
That's not going to restore growth or mend globalization or save capitalism, but it might be a small start to sanity.
拿可能对恢复增长、修复全球化或者是拯救资本主义没有神恶魔作用,但它可能成为我们明智的开端。
Just when the American economy appeared to be on the mend, a new crisis is stressing global financial markets.
正当美国经济显露复苏迹象之际,全球金融市场被新危机的阴霾所笼罩。
They are generally trying to mend their finances and conserve capital, or are looking to move into faster-growing markets.
大型欧洲银行总体上都在努力修复自身的财务状况、储备资金,或是考虑进入增长更快的市场。
The mayor is trying to mend fences with members of the city council so they'll approve his plan.
因为市长在尽力改善他与市议会的成员的关系,所以他的计划通过了。
David saw that his friends did not like him, so he decided to mend his fences.
大卫发现朋友们都不喜欢他,所以决定与他们重新修好。
I am afraid you do not like your pen. Let me mend it for you. I mend pens remarkably well.
我怕你那支笔不大管用了吧。让我来代你修理修理。修笔真是我的拿手好戏。
Now I feel terrible. It is going to be expensive to mend it. Should I tell him about the computer game? Should I offer to pay?
现在我感觉糟透了。这将是昂贵,把它修一修。要我告诉他有关电脑游戏吗?我应该提供如何支付?。
The town on the right bank said that it was at the end of the road, so the left-bank town should mend the hole.
他们都认为自己有更好的理由让对方来修补这个洞。右岸的小镇觉得自己是在路的尽头,所以左岸的小镇该负责修理。
Our friendship came so easily that we took it for granted, and when it began to unravel, neither of us had a clue how to mend it.
我们的友谊仿佛与生俱来,自然得让我们觉得理所当然,以至当裂缝悄然出现,我们竟都不知该如何缝补。
The real problem is an inability to get the nation, as they see it, to wake up to impending disaster and mend its ways.
他们认为,真正的问题在于这个国家无法清醒的认识到这个迫在眉睫的灾难以进行补救。
'They're all saying, 'It's either my way or no way, '' she said, adding she hopes her opinions will spur politicians to mend their ways.
“他们都说,‘要么用我的方案,要么用你的方案。’”她还表示,希望自己的评论能促使政治人士调整他们的主张。
He invited her to help him mend his broken bike .
他邀请她帮他修坏了的自行车。
We are trying to put inflation back into its cage and our economy is on the mend .
我们正在设法控制通货膨胀,同时改善我们得经济
Scientists say they have found a new way to mend damage to the heart.
科学家称他们已经发现了心脏修复的一种新方法。
"We love Mr. Hatch, " insisted Mr. and Mrs. Dunwoody. "He gave us flowers for our garden. He helped to mend our back fence. "
“我想,我们喜欢哈奇先生。”杜伍德夫妇毫无犹豫地说。“他送了好多花给我们的花园。还帮我们一起修理花园后门。”
The computer and the animals worked together to mend the Star Zoo. After fifteen thousand years they were very good at it!
电脑和动物一起修补星际动物园。经过一万五千年,它们对此十分熟练了!
When nature starts to grow again, To mend what winter's torn, May spring's rebirth take place in me Each day my soul is born.
当大自然又开始生长,修补冬天带来的破坏时,愿春天在我心里重生,我的灵魂每日更新。