| 词汇 | restore |
| 释义 | restore verb[ T ] uk /rɪˈstɔːr/ us /rɪˈstɔːr/ B2 to return something or someone to an earlier good condition or position: 修复;使复位;使复职 The badly neglected paintings have all been carefully restored.那些由于严重疏忽而损毁的画作得到了精心修复。 After a week in bed, she was fully restored to health (= she felt healthy again).卧床1周后，她完全恢复了健康。 The former leader was today restored to power in the first free elections for 20 years.今天，在20年来首次举行的自由选举中，这位前领导人又重新当选上台。 C1 If you restore a quality or ability that someone has not had for a long time, you make it possible for them to have that quality or ability again: 使恢复;使复原 Doctors have restored his sight.医生们使他重见光明。 The government is trying to restore public confidence in its management of the economy.政府正在努力恢复公众对政府经济管理能力的信心。 to bring back into use something that has been absent for a period of time: 重新采用;恢复使用 Some people are in favour of restoring capital punishment for murderers.有些人赞成对杀人犯恢复执行死刑。 formal to give something that has been lost or stolen back to the person it belongs to: 归还;交还 The painting was restored to its rightful owner.这幅画被归还给其合法主人。 They want to restore the castle to its former glory.他们想重现城堡昔日雄伟壮观的面貌。 They're trying to restore the good name of the manufacturer.他们在努力挽回制造商的声誉。 The church was recently restored after decades of disuse.这座遗弃数十年的教堂不久前刚刚修复好。 The table had been lovingly restored.这张桌子已经被精心修复。 Ben's hobby is restoring vintage motorcycles. 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 You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Giving, bringing or getting back restore | American Dictionaryrestore verb[ T ] us/rɪˈstɔr, -ˈstoʊr/ to return something or someone to an earlier condition or position, or to bring something back into existence: Power company crews were working yesterday to restore electrical service to homes in the area. Surgeons restored the sight in her right eye. restore | Business Englishrestore verb[ T ] uk /rɪˈstɔːr/us to return something to an earlier good condition or position: The big unions want the historic link between basic state pensions and average earnings restored. restore sth to sthIf you take totally abandoned land, you could restore it to profitability after about three years. The company was restored to financial health. to make it possible for someone to have a quality or ability again that they have not had for a long time: restore confidence/faithThe move by the US Federal Reserve this week to cut interest rates has restored a lot of public confidence. The firm is battling to restore its reputation after the scandal. to give something that has been lost or taken, or money that is owed, back to the person it belongs to: The painting was restored to its rightful owner. The banks have restored the company's finances by deferring repayment of £588m of loans and interest. If the economy picks up, he expects to restore funding to road projects. to bring back into use something that has been absent for a period of time: We need to restore competition to the operating-system and browser markets. restore growth/profitability Examples of restorerestore Many colonial buildings survived decolonization and have now been restored. However, employers and unions then reached agreements which topped up provision, restoring the previously-established levels of benefit ('gap insurance'). The process of collective learning described in the previous section restored the legitimacy of democratic institutions. Once competitive electoral politics have been restored, a number of characteristics of the post transition political system are significant. Convertibility was finally restored in 1867 (at 1864's actual prices) and lasted until 1876. The republic was finally restored in 1867 and power was returned to congress. The restoring force is much weaker in the latter case, so internal gravity waves move much more slowly than external gravity waves. In restoring a place for the body and the species, biological approaches open avenues that have been closed to ethics, especially bioethics. However, the bony par ts of most of the pendants were either intact or had been carefully restored. The tension forces act as restoring forces to the otherwise damped oscillations of the interfacial surfaces. The quaternary structure of symmetric particles can also be restored in terms of the envelope function of their asymmetric unit. Thus replacing monosyllabic til in (44b) with disyllabic ekstra (extra) restores it to full acceptability. During this pass, the choice point links are restored again, the trail is compacted and the trail pointers in the choice points adapted accordingly. The coalition played down class and redistributive themes and underscored the desirability of restoring democracy. The state of siege was lifted and all the laws restored. See all examples of restore 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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