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amends

/uh-mendz/US // əˈmɛndz //UK // (əˈmɛndz) //

补救措施,赞成,修正,补救

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : reparation or compensation for a loss, damage, or injury of any kind; recompense.
    • : Obsolete. improvement; recovery, as of health.

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Examples

  • Many fans feel that streaming services give a raw deal to musicians, and want to make amends for using them.

  • In other words, Congress amends bill it passed a few years ago.

  • Make amends to those you live with, go back to work, enjoy getting to eat meat again.

  • Cordle fessed up, manned up, and made amends as best he could.

  • The hip-hop mogul tells Lloyd Grove he plans to make amends for his Harriet Tubman sex video joke and take Tinseltown by storm.

  • Leucippe herself goes far to make amends for the general insipidity of the other characters.

  • But in the campaign of 1814 he made amends for all his former blunders, and his fighting record stands high indeed.

  • In such case the defendant was empowered to plead the facts in extenuation, and also to pay money into court by way of amends.

  • She rightly conjectured that the girl was already ashamed of her sharpness, and wished to make amends in some way.

  • He is rather prone to personal abuse, but makes ample amends to those who will put up with it.