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mend

B1 verb

mend /mɛnd/ nghĩa là sửa chữa

Các nghĩa

  1. sửa chữa

    To physically repair (something that is broken, defaced, decayed, torn, or otherwise damaged).

    transitive

    My trousers have a big rip in them and need mending.

    When your car breaks down, you can take it to the garage to have it mended.

    [A] fellow mending the tiles just when the fire broke out, saw a pot with wildfire in the room.

  2. châm (lửa)

    To add fuel to (a fire).

    figuratively · transitive

    He mended the fire and turned the meat on the greenwood racks.

  3. sửa chữa, khắc phục

    To correct or put right (an error, a fault, etc.); to rectify, to remedy.

    figuratively · transitive

    [Y]ou muſt examine vvhere the fault is, and taking the Pin out mend the fault in the Joynt.

    This old Francesco Cenci, as you know, / […] left me so / In poverty, the which I sought to mend / By holding a poor office in the state.

    [S]he peered into her handbag mirror to mend her rouge: […]

  4. cải thiện, cải tiến

    To put (something) in a better state; to ameliorate, to improve, to reform, to set right.

    figuratively · transitive

    Her stutter was mended by a speech therapist.

    My broken heart was mended.

    So neyther is one vertue fit for all, nor all fit for one vertue: nor is that one ſo excellent, but by more it might be mended: […]

  5. cải tạo, sửa đổi

    To remove fault or sin from (someone, or their behaviour or character); to improve morally, to reform.

    figuratively · transitive

    Youle not endure him, god ſhall mend my ſoule, / Youle make a mutinie among my gueſts: […]

    God mend all, I pray— / And keep us from all wrongdoing and wild words.

  6. điều chỉnh (tốc độ)

    In mend one's pace: to adjust (a pace or speed), especially to match that of someone or something else; also, to quicken or speed up (a pace).

    figuratively · transitive

    Cudgell thy braines no more about it, for your dull aſſe vvill not mend his pace vvith beating, […]

    But though I mended my pace, I was only just in time to see them turn into - of all places - my hotel.

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  1. chữa lành, phục hồi

    To restore (someone or something) to a healthy state; to cure, to heal.

    figuratively · regional · transitive

    Yearly thy Herds in vigour vvill impair; / Recruit and mend 'em vvith thy Yearly care: […]

    [H]ot July was drawing to an end, / And August came the fainting year to mend / With fruit and grain; […]

    If we were making no progress with Haraldsen's business we were at any rate mending his health.

  2. lành lại, bình phục

    Of an illness: to become less severe; also, of an injury or wound, or an injured body part: to get better, to heal.

    figuratively · intransitive

    My long ſickneſſe / Of Health, and Liuing, novv begins to mend, […]

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