| 词汇 | mended |
| 释义 | mended past simple and past participle ofmend mend verb[ T ] uk /mend/ us /mend/ B1 to repair something that is broken or damaged: 修理；修补；缝补 Could you mend this hole in my shirt?你能把我衬衫上的这个洞补一下吗？ UKI've left my watch at the jeweller's to be mended.我把手表留在钟表匠那儿修理了。 UKThe plumber came to mend the burst pipe.管道工来修理爆裂的水管。 The country's president is seeking to mend relations with the United States.该国总统正试图修复与美国的关系。 to repair something repairHe asked if she could repair the broken lamp. fixI must get my bike fixed. mendCan you mend that hole in my trousers? do upNick loves doing up old cars. serviceI'm taking the car to the garage to have it serviced this afternoon. patch upI patched up the old bike and got it working. A man's coming to mend the boiler this afternoon.今天下午有人要来修锅炉。 I thought I could mend the radio myself, but I've had to admit defeat. Never try to mend a broken machine without disconnecting it from the electricity supply. He wants me to mend his shirt for him, but I'm not going to!他想让我给他补衬衫，我才不干呢！ He can mend anything - he's so good with his hands. Correcting and mending calibration clean (someone/something) up correction fiddle (around) with something fine-tune mess reconstruct reconstruction recover rectifiable rectification refine remedy revise scratch set/put the record straightidiom smooth something away smoothen sort sort something out Idiomsmend your fences mend your ways Examples of mendedmended In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. This led to much discussion about garments sewn and mended in the past, embroidery and other sewing projects undertaken. These faults can be mended through the continuing development of teachers' skills and support of their needs. Among many other things, they delivered babies and messages, mended roads, and cleaned the church. If we could look behind those carefully mended curtains we should see carpets faded and patched. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is recom- mended that that provision should begin for couples with their first infant child and for infant children in large families. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I think this is a case in which the least said the soonest mended. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 However, these are matters where at present it may be a case of the least said, soonest mended. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 This means that he has to keep returning to hospital to get it mended. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I think that he should have the right to go back to the sheriff and say that he has mended his ways. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Now, the important thing is to forget this sorry episode as soon as possible—the least said, the soonest mended. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Both those sections are numerically inferior to the great bulk of those people who wish to see things mended in the industry. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I believe that the council mended its ways subsequently. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 When he sends his car to be mended and it comes back with a new engine is it the same car or a different car? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The less said about that the sooner it is mended; because the bottom fell out of that. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I will say no more, for perhaps the least said the soonest mended. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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