| 词汇 | amending |
| 释义 | amending present participle ofamend 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。 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 Zelig You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Editing & compiling UK politics: legislation & law-making Examples of amendingamending In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Amending regulations is never easy; it is especially hard here. This is easily seen in the context of amending thee and thou. I have taken liberties in amending some of the particulars for my own use (especially in changing the frequently used mouse to a mosquito). In some states amending of the charter could provide a way around this. Today, the computer keyboard and the laser printer (among other devices) are amending this entrenched procedure in various radical, even paradoxical ways. There are further sacrificial implications: correcting and amending were expected as results of the purification by fire. The second, whether parliament is the appropriate body for amending the constitution at all, is discussed in the next section. Some contributors revisit their sources with a view to amending our overall picture. The code may also contain higher-order rules for amending the rules and the rights distributed by them. Where new material seemed to him important, he busied himself with scissors and pastepot, amending sections and appending new material in illustrative footnotes. However, in spite of this the play was passed since the censor was able to use the strategy of cutting and amending offending passages. The general histories of the amending process provide fairly quick and straight8. While only congress had the power to amend the constitution, the government claimed that the normal process of amending the constitution would be too slow. Between these two poles can be found a number of gradated positions that might be better characterized in terms of elasticity: of bending, testing, amending, or re-writing the rules. Men and women who had a fluid approach to gendered assumptions, amending them to adapt to changes in the lifecycle, were the most successful in achieving satisfying lifestyles. 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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