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词汇 amend
释义 amend
verb[ T ]
uk /əˈmend/ us /əˈmend/
C2
to change the words of a text, especially a law or a legal document: 修订,修正,修改(法律文件等)
MPs were urged to amend the law to prevent another oil tanker disaster.下院议员们被敦促修订该法律,以防止油轮泄漏灾难再次发生。
In line 20, "men" should be amended (= changed)to "people".第20行中的 men 应改为 people。
Until the constitution is amended, the power to appoint ministers will remain with the president.在宪法修正之前,总统仍然有权任命部长。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Adapting and modifying
acclimate
acclimation
acclimatization
acclimatize
acclimatize to something
amendment
chameleon
change with/keep up with/move with the timesidiom
configure
counter-adaptation
pliant
pliantly
preadaptation
preadaptive
put something back
unacclimatized
unadapted
unamended
write someone out of something
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Editing & compiling
UK politics: legislation & law-making

amend | American Dictionary


amend
verb[ T ]
us/əˈmend/
to change the words of something written, esp. a law or a legal document:
The terms of the contract were amended in later years.

amend | Business English


amend
verb[ T ]
uk /əˈmend/us
to change something, especially the words of a text:
They were too hasty to amend or drop initiatives that did not work immediately.
amend sth to sthIn line 20, 'men' should be amended to 'people'.
LAW, GOVERNMENT
to make a change to a law:
amend a bill/lawHe will try to amend the bill to shift more of the money to conservation.
The proposals would amend the Insolvency Act of 1986 to prevent potentially viable small businesses from being forced into receivership.
Until the constitution is amended, the power to appoint ministers will remain with the president.

Examples of amend


amend
I hope this can be amended in future editions.
Finally, in 1936 he amended the constitution and extended his ' presidency ' to 1949.
Written procedures are then evaluated and amended if necessary to prevent similar incidents from occurring in the future.
Nitrification was significantly increased in soils amended with ammonium or with ammonium plus phosphorus, suggesting that nitrification is substrate-limited.
European courts confirmed their position that administrative guidelines, which have an abstract-general scope of application, may not be implicitly amended by decisions in individual cases.
However, this simple contextualisation game needs to be amended when combinations of games are considered.
In both periods, nurses made almost 50% of interventions, and 40% of these prescriptions were amended; for pharmacist interventions, this figure was 60%.
Thus, the project presented to the congress was amended in significant ways to accommodate the radical convictions of most deputies.
This is easily seen in the context of amending thee and thou.
Modern agricultural systems have amended some of their properties to increase productivity.
Yet more improvement is possible, hence the next generation of cupholders is amended accordingly; and so on.
The actor who is not recognized as making a proposal cannot amend the proposer's offer.
Yet despite pressure to amend the legislation, many of the impugned provisions remain.
Consequently, it is desirable to amend the tree extraction procedure to adequately represent them in the resulting extracted grammar.
When people wake up, they might recall or amend these mentations as if they had been experienced during sleep.
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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