mend是什么意思_mend怎么读_中英文释义(含例句用法)

mend: mend: [12] Mend originated as a shortened form of amend [13] – or rather, of the Old French source of amend, which did not arrive in English until after mend. The Old French verb was amender, a descendant of Vulgar Latin *admendāre ‘remove faults, correct’. This in turn was an alteration of classical Latin ēmendāre (source of English emend [15]), a compound verb formed from the prefix exdenoting ‘removal’ and menda, mendum ‘fault, defect’. (Other Latin derivatives of mendum were mendīcus ‘injured’, which was used as a noun meaning ‘beggar’ – hence English mendicant [15]; and perhaps mendāx ‘speaking faultily’, hence ‘lying’, from which English gets mendacious [17].)
=> amend, emend, mendicant
mend (v.): c. 1200, "to repair," from a shortened form of Old French amender (see amend). Meaning "to put right, atone for, amend (one"s life), repent" is from c. 1300; that of "to regain health" is from early 15c. Related: Mended; mending.
mend (n.): early 14c., "recompense, reparation," from mend (v.). Meaning "act of mending; a repaired hole or rip in fabric" is from 1888. Phrase on the mend attested from 1802.

词态变化

第三人称单数 mends;
过去式 mended;
过去分词 mended;
现在分词 mending;

2. Somebody else lent me a pump and helped me mend the puncture.: 别人借给我一个打气筒，又帮我补好了轮胎。

3. More evidence that the economy was on the mend was needed.: 需要更多证据来证明经济正在好转。

fix

patch

repair

restore

improve

on the mend adv.在好转中

to mend 修理

end or mend 首尾相接地,首尾相对地

mend fences 弥补关系

makeand mend [海]空闲时间半休日

mend or end 要么改进,要么结束;不改则废

mend or mar 或成之或毁之

mend matters 改善情况

make do and mend v. 修修补补将就, 尽量利用原有的东西

make do amd mend v. 修修补补将就

这些动词均含“修理，修复”之意。
mend通常指较简单的修复过程，一般不需要专门技术或特殊工具。
repair可与mend换用，但一般指需要较高的职业技能和使用较复杂的工具进行修理。
patch通常指用类似材料修补破洞、裂缝或磨损的地方。
fix多用于美语，仅用于指带有安装固定性质的修理。

1. 妈妈在临终前还在缝补. 慈母手中线，游子身上衣。临行密密缝，意恐迟迟归。
2. 邓妈妈直到临终前还在帮我们敬爱的周总理修补衣服。