return(GIVING BACK)
Several famous alumni have agreed to help raise money for the school's restoration fund.几位有名望的校友已经同意帮助母校筹集资金修复校舍。
A compromise has to be reached between all the powerful vested interests before any restoration work in the city can take place.势力强大的各既得利益集团间必须先达成妥协，城市整修工作才有可能开始。
The restoration of the building is expected to take up to five years to complete.
It was cheaper to demolish the building than spend £1 million on its restoration.
The restoration of the power supply to the village is expected to take a few more days.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Restoring and reviving
balsam
bounce
bounce back
facelift
flip
lick your woundsidiom
modernization
modernize
move with the timesidiom
recrudescence
regeneration
regenerative
rejuvenate
rejuvenation
resurrect
resurrection
revamp
revitalize
revival
snap
the Restoration
noun[ S ]
uk /ˌres.tərˈeɪ.ʃən/ us /ˌres.təˈreɪ.ʃən/
the event in British history when Charles II was made king in 1660 after a period in which there was no king or queen王政复辟（1660年查理二世的复辟）

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Renaissance: 1501 to 1899
ancien régime
auto-da-fé
buccaneer
bustle
Carolean
Elizabethan
enlightenment
Industrial Revolution
Jacobean
Pre-Raphaelite
privateer
reformation
regency
the First Fleet
the Pilgrims
the Wild West
Tory
Victorian
Victoriana
Whig
Restoration
adjective[ before noun ]
uk /ˌres.tərˈeɪ.ʃən/ us /ˌres.təˈreɪ.ʃən/
relating to or from the Restoration: 王政复辟时期的
Restoration comedy/architecture/art王政复辟时期的喜剧/建筑/艺术
One of the great themes of Shakespearean and Restoration drama is the contrast between the way things appear to be and what they really are.
Honour and reputation are key themes in The Country Wife and all Restoration comedy.
Heroic drama is a type of play popular during the Restoration era in England.
If your dad was a coalminer or granddad came to Britain from the Caribbean in the 1950s, it might be hard to feel that an art-packed Restoration palace was part of your heritage.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Renaissance: 1501 to 1899
ancien régime
auto-da-fé
buccaneer
bustle
Carolean
Elizabethan
enlightenment
Industrial Revolution
Jacobean
Pre-Raphaelite
privateer
reformation
regency
the First Fleet
the Pilgrims
the Wild West
Tory
Victorian
Victoriana
Whig

restoration | American Dictionary

restoration
noun[ C/U ]
us/ˌres·təˈreɪ·ʃən/
the act or the process of returning something to its original condition, or to a state similar to its original condition:
[ U ]She is in charge of the restoration of paintings in the collection.
[ C ]Elise has worked on a number of 19th-century building restorations.

restoration | Business English

restoration
noun[ C or U ]
uk /ˌrestərˈeɪʃən/us
the act or process of returning something to its earlier good condition or position:
a restoration plan/program/project
Workers have started restoration work on the two fountains.
Pensioner groups have campaigned for the restoration of the link between basic pension and earnings.

Examples of restoration

restoration
Ecology of seed and seedling growth for conservation and restoration of tropical dry forest: a review.
It is an intensive group therapy programme that is primarily directed at the normalization of eating and the restoration of body weight.
These are all cognitive-based features in that they alter a person's view of his or her experience and enables restoration of a sense of coherence.
From this perspective, unions would become unnecessary and irrelevant once this restoration had generated a population of practicing believers.
It prompted him to present his great reform of knowledge in reflexive terms, as a restoration of original knowledge.
Decentralization became one of the primary political goals of the legitimist party, almost as important to many legitimists as the restoration of the monarchy itself.
In contrast to what is customary today, excavations at the time were not followed by restoration.
Even though restoration is costly, the period one level of investment is low so the cost of reversion is low.
Among the most controversial of these changes was the restoration of altars in parochial churches.
The restoration of old temples, and the construction of new ones in the fort, had already started in the early nineteenth century.
Order is thus maintained by the researcher through occasional checks on progress and temporary restorations of a single floor for the whole group.
The high science of restoration ecology, and the technology that enables such rapid change in ecosystems.
Multiple phonemic restorations follow the rules for auditory induction.
He calls for the restoration of these works and their reinstatement into a global setting.
Information about symmetry, if available, thus improves the reliability of the ab initio shape restoration.
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comprehensive restoration
A comprehensive restoration of civil trade and economic activity presents a practical and beneficial way of improving bilateral relations.
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