mend

英 [mend] 美[m?nd]

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第三人稱單數(shù):?mends;過去式:?mended;過去分詞:?mended;現(xiàn)在分詞:?mending;

1. 媽媽在臨終前還在縫補(bǔ). 慈母手中線，游子身上衣。臨行密密縫，意恐遲遲歸。
2. 鄧媽媽直到臨終前還在幫我們敬愛的周總理修補(bǔ)衣服。

mend 修理，修補(bǔ)

縮寫自amend,修理。來自拉丁語emendare,修理，糾正錯誤，來自ex-,向外，menda,錯誤，缺陷，詞源同mendicant,殘疾人，行乞者。

mend: mend: [12] Mend originated as a shortened form of amend [13] – or rather, of the Old French source of amend, which did not arrive in English until after mend. The Old French verb was amender, a descendant of Vulgar Latin *admendāre ‘remove faults, correct’. This in turn was an alteration of classical Latin ēmendāre (source of English emend [15]), a compound verb formed from the prefix exdenoting ‘removal’ and menda, mendum ‘fault, defect’. (Other Latin derivatives of mendum were mendīcus ‘injured’, which was used as a noun meaning ‘beggar’ – hence English mendicant [15]; and perhaps mendāx ‘speaking faultily’, hence ‘lying’, from which English gets mendacious [17].)
=> amend, emend, mendicant
mend (v.): c. 1200, "to repair," from a shortened form of Old French amender (see amend). Meaning "to put right, atone for, amend (one's life), repent" is from c. 1300; that of "to regain health" is from early 15c. Related: Mended; mending.
mend (n.): early 14c., "recompense, reparation," from mend (v.). Meaning "act of mending; a repaired hole or rip in fabric" is from 1888. Phrase on the mend attested from 1802.

2. Somebody else lent me a pump and helped me mend the puncture.: 別人借給我一個打氣筒，又幫我補(bǔ)好了輪胎。

3. More evidence that the economy was on the mend was needed.: 需要更多證據(jù)來證明經(jīng)濟(jì)正在好轉(zhuǎn)。

4. They started to mend the woodwork and paint the walls.: 他們開始修補(bǔ)木建部分，粉刷墻壁。