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Enable Enabling Make   [V Good Give Verb 动词

英语单词 enable
英美音标 英 [ɪ'neɪbl] 美 [ɪ'neɪbl]
中文释义 vt.使能够;使可能
英语例句 (1) Listening to music enables us to feel relaxed.
(2) A dog's ears enable it to hear the least sound.
(3) This train will enable me to get there in time.
(4) Hobbies may enable you to make many friends.
(5) Training will enable you to find a job.
中文例句 (1) 听音乐能使我们放松。
(2) 狗的耳朵使它能听到极细微的声音。
(3) 这列火车能使我及时到达那儿。
(4) 业余爱好能够使你结识很多朋友.
(5) 培训将使你找到工作。
vocabulary简明 When you make something possible, you enable it. Your good grades might enable you to go to your first choice school. And a great teacher enabled you to get such good grades.
vocabulary扩展 Enable has taken on the meaning of allowing or even helping someone continue to do something they really shouldn't. If your mother writes note after note to get you out of school for no good reason, she is enabling your habit of playing hooky. While you might think she's being cool, a therapist might call her an enabler and give her part of the blame.
柯林斯解释
1
[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。

2
[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。

3
[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。

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