mends

英 [mendz]

美 [mendz]

v.  修理; 修补; 缝补; 织补; 弥合(分歧); 解决(争端)
n.  修补; 好转; 痊愈
mend的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• VERB 修理;修补
  If youmendsomething that is broken or not working, you repair it, so that it works properly or can be used.
  1. They took a long time to mend the roof...
     他们花了很长时间修缮屋顶。
  2. Somebody else lent me a pump and helped me mend the puncture...
     别人借给我一个打气筒，又帮我补好了轮胎。
  3. I should have had the catch mended, but never got round to it.
     我原本应该修好这个窗钩的，却一直没能抽出时间来。
• V-ERG (使)康复;(使)痊愈;(使)愈合
  If a person or a part of their bodymendsoris mended, they get better after they have been ill or have had an injury.
  1. You'll mend. The X-rays show that your arm will heal all right...
     你会康复的。X光照片显示你的胳膊能够较好地复原。
  2. I'm feeling a good bit better. The cut aches, but it's mending...
     我感觉好多了。伤口很疼，但是正在愈合。
  3. He must have a major operation on his knee to mend severed ligaments.
     为了让他断裂的韧带愈合，他的膝盖必须动一次大手术。
• VERB 弥合(分歧);解决(争端)
  If you try tomenddivisions between people, you try to end the disagreements or quarrels between them.
  1. He sent Evans as his personal envoy to discuss ways to mend relations between the two countries...
     他派埃文斯以私人特使的身份前往商讨修复两国关系的途径。
  2. I felt that might well mend the rift between them.
     我觉得那样做也许可以让他们冰释前嫌。
• PHRASE (关系)正在改善;(形势)正在好转
  If a relationship or situation ison the mendafter a difficult or unsuccessful period, it is improving.
  1. More evidence that the economy was on the mend was needed.
     需要更多证据来证明经济正在好转。
• PHRASE (病人)正在恢复之中，正在逐渐好起来
  If you areon the mendafter an illness or injury, you are recovering from it.
  1. The baby had been poorly but seemed on the mend.
     宝宝生病了，但似乎正在好起来。
• PHRASE 改过自新;改邪归正
  If someone who has been behaving badlymendstheirways, they begin to behave well.
  1. He has promised drastic disciplinary action if they do not mend their ways.
     如果他们不改邪归正的话，他保证一定严惩不贷。
• tomend fences→ see:fence

双语例句

• A tinkering slave-maker, who mends old chains.
  白铁工奴隶匠修补旧损桎梏。
• The experiment shows that this method mends traditional maximum flow algorithm, and improves the quality of web communities.
  实验证明，本文给出的改进的边容量分配方法提高了所发现网络社区的质量。
• In the recent years, with the deepening of market economy and globe economy, China mends its pace on reformation of accounting and taxation system.
  近年来，随着经济市场化和国际化的日益加强，我国加快了会计制度和税收制度改革的步伐。
• They say that time mends a broken heart and true love never ends, but if true love never ended then time wouldn't have to mend.
  人们说时间可以修补受伤的心，真爱永远不死，但如果爱真的永不会消失，为什么还要靠时间去修补呢？
• There is an unconscious heeling process within the mind which mends up in spite of our desperate determination never to forget.
  心中的伤痛总是不知不觉渐渐愈合，虽然我们也曾痛苦地发誓说永不忘记。
• The study makes specific empirical analysis to this theoretical model using AMOS 17.0 to validate the rationality of the model, and further mends and optimizes the theoretical model to obtain the related routing coefficients at last.
  使用AMOS17.0对该理论模型进行具体的实证分析，验证了该模型的合理性，并进一步对该理论模型进行了修正和优化，最终得到相关的路径系数。
• A plumber is a person who fits and mends the plumbing.
  管子工是安装和修理水管的人。
• She never mends her clothes; they all have holes in them.
  她从来都不补缀衣服。因此，衣服上到处都是破洞。
• While he's out, she mends his socks!
  他常外出看病人，她呆在家补袜子！
• But a simple device, which solves this problem successfully, mends the flaw of designs of many microscopes.
  而一个简单的装置解决了这个问题，弥补了许多显微镜设计上的不足。