mend

英 [mend] 美[mɛnd]

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第三人称单数: mends;过去式: mended;过去分词: mended;现在分词: mending;

1. 妈妈在临终前还在缝补. 慈母手中线，游子身上衣。临行密密缝，意恐迟迟归。
2. 邓妈妈直到临终前还在帮我们敬爱的周总理修补衣服。

mend 修理，修补

缩写自amend,修理。来自拉丁语emendare,修理，纠正错误，来自ex-,向外，menda,错误，缺陷，词源同mendicant,残疾人，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.: 别人借给我一个打气筒，又帮我补好了轮胎。

3. 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。