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.
雙語例句
1. I felt that might well mend the rift between them.
我覺得那樣做也許可以讓他們冰釋前嫌。
來自柯林斯例句
2. Somebody else lent me a pump and helped me mend the puncture.
別人借給我一個打氣筒，又幫我補好了輪胎。
來自柯林斯例句
3. More evidence that the economy was on the mend was needed.
需要更多證據來證明經濟正在好轉。
來自柯林斯例句
4. They started to mend the woodwork and paint the walls.
他們開始修補木建部分，粉刷牆壁。
來自柯林斯例句
5. They requested sappers to mend bridges or remove mines.