英语词汇“to mend the matter”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

P2. transitive. to mend matters (also, esp. in earlier use, to mend the matter): to improve the state of affairs concerning a person or thing. Frequently in negative contexts. Also used ironically.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > amending > provide a remedy [verb (intransitive)] > put matters right

to mend matters?c1570

to mend the matter?c1570

?c1570 Buggbears i. iii, in R. W. Bond Early Plays from Italian (1911) 97 Ile go mend the matter streight.

1608 R. Armin Nest of Ninnies sig. B Iack thought hee had mended the matter, but now he was whipt indeede, and had his payment altogether.

1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 242 As for Mortgaging, or Pawning, it will little mend the matter.

1640 R. Brathwait Ar't Asleepe Husband? 135 What thinkest thou, Wife, if we be married againe, and see if that will mend the matter?

1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding ii. xvii. 107 I suppose they will thereby very little mend the matter, or help us to a more clear and positive Idea.

1706 E. Ward Hudibras Redivivus I. vii. 14 A potent Tribe, who are intending, Under Pretence of mending Matters, To bring us into S——sh F——rs.

1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 344 To mend the Matter,..it continued snowing.

1799 C. Ludger tr. A. von Kotzebue Reconciliation ii. vii. 51 I smack'd the pipe on the floor, and dash'd it to a thousand pieces: that didn't mend matters neither.

1814 J. B. Scott Diary 2 Oct. in E. Mann Englishman at Home & Abroad (1930) v. 121 To mend the matter, these notices to the people were generally written in Latin.

1869 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest III. xii. 253 No one..will argue that he would at all have mended matters, had he fulfilled his promise by any act of treason.

1902 E. Wharton Let. 4 Jan. (1988) 48 Would it not be possible, by way of mending matters, to sell the book for a little less than $2?

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. v. [Lotus Eaters] 70 Talk: as if that would mend matters.

1996 Sacramento (Calif.) Bee (Nexis) 10 Mar. a2 Time has mended matters somewhat, although it can never bring those dead boys back.

单词	to mend the matter
释义	> as lemmas to mend the matter P2. transitive. to mend matters (also, esp. in earlier use, to mend the matter): to improve the state of affairs concerning a person or thing. Frequently in negative contexts. Also used ironically. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > amending > provide a remedy [verb (intransitive)] > put matters right to mend matters?c1570 to mend the matter?c1570 ?c1570 Buggbears i. iii, in R. W. Bond Early Plays from Italian (1911) 97 Ile go mend the matter streight. 1608 R. Armin Nest of Ninnies sig. B Iack thought hee had mended the matter, but now he was whipt indeede, and had his payment altogether. 1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 242 As for Mortgaging, or Pawning, it will little mend the matter. 1640 R. Brathwait Ar't Asleepe Husband? 135 What thinkest thou, Wife, if we be married againe, and see if that will mend the matter? 1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding ii. xvii. 107 I suppose they will thereby very little mend the matter, or help us to a more clear and positive Idea. 1706 E. Ward Hudibras Redivivus I. vii. 14 A potent Tribe, who are intending, Under Pretence of mending Matters, To bring us into S——sh F——rs. 1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 344 To mend the Matter,..it continued snowing. 1799 C. Ludger tr. A. von Kotzebue Reconciliation ii. vii. 51 I smack'd the pipe on the floor, and dash'd it to a thousand pieces: that didn't mend matters neither. 1814 J. B. Scott Diary 2 Oct. in E. Mann Englishman at Home & Abroad (1930) v. 121 To mend the matter, these notices to the people were generally written in Latin. 1869 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest III. xii. 253 No one..will argue that he would at all have mended matters, had he fulfilled his promise by any act of treason. 1902 E. Wharton Let. 4 Jan. (1988) 48 Would it not be possible, by way of mending matters, to sell the book for a little less than $2? 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. v. [Lotus Eaters] 70 Talk: as if that would mend matters. 1996 Sacramento (Calif.) Bee (Nexis) 10 Mar. a2 Time has mended matters somewhat, although it can never bring those dead boys back. extracted from mendv. < as lemmas
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