[VERB 动词]使能够;使有机会 If someone or something enables you to do a particular thing, they give you the opportunity to do it.
[V n to-inf]
The new test should enable doctors to detect the disease early.
新的检测手段应该能够使医生们尽早查出这种疾病。
...a new charter for training to enable young people to make the most of their potential.
能够使年轻人充分发挥潜能的新培训规章
enabling
Researchers describe it as an enabling technology.
研究者们将其描述成一种实现性技术。
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[VERB 动词]使成为可能;使可行 To enable something to happen means to make it possible for it to happen.
[V n to-inf]
[V n]
The hot sun enables the grapes to reach optimum ripeness...
炙热的阳光使葡萄能够达到最佳成熟状态。
A series of holes in the side panels enables the position of the shelves to be adjusted...
通过侧板上的一系列小孔可以对隔板位置进行调整。
The working class is still too small to enable a successful socialist revolution.
工人阶级队伍还是非常弱小,不能成功实现社会主义革命。
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[VERB 动词]准许;许可;授权 To enable someone to do something means to give them permission or the right to do it.
[V n to-inf]
The republic's legislation enables young people to do a form of alternative service.
共和国的法律允许年轻人服某种形式的替代役。
enabling
Some protection for victims must be written into the enabling legislation.
对受害者的一些保护必须写进权力授予法。
Oxford
en·able★AWL/ɪˈneɪbl; NAmEɪˈneɪbl/verb1★enablesb to do sth to make it possible for sb to do sth 使能够;使有机会SYN
allow
◆The software enables you to create your own DVDs.这个软件可用来自制 DVD。◆a new programme to enable older people to study at college使老年人有机会在大学学习的新方案2★to make it possible for sth to happen or exist by creating the necessary conditions 使成为可能;使可行;使实现SYN
allow
enablesth to do sth ◆Insulin enables the body to use and store sugar.胰岛素使人体能够利用和贮存糖分。enablesth ◆a new train line to enable easier access to the stadium到体育场更为便捷的新列车线路☞language bank at
to make it possible for someone to do something, or for something to happenenable somebody/something to do something The loan enabled Jan to buy the house. There are plans to enlarge the runway to enable jumbo jets to land.—enabler noun [countable]
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