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mediate

/verb mee-dee-eyt; adjective mee-dee-it/US // verb ˈmi diˌeɪt; adjective ˈmi di ɪt //

调解,调停,斡旋,劝说

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    me·di·at·ed, me·di·at·ing.

    • : to settle as an intermediary between parties; reconcile.
    • : to bring about as an intermediary between parties by compromise, reconciliation, removal of misunderstanding, etc.
    • : to effect or convey by or as if by an intermediary.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    me·di·at·ed, me·di·at·ing.

    • : to act between parties to effect an agreement, compromise, reconciliation, etc.
    • : to occupy an intermediate place or position.
adj.形容词 adjective
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    • : acting through, dependent on, or involving an intermediate agency; not direct or immediate.

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Examples

  • It’s up to Ji-Yoon to mediate between each of these competing interests.

  • Lawmakers aren’t able to anticipate and mediate every dispute over records, which is why the California Public Records Act has plenty of uncertainty.

  • They know that the metrics are influential, their day-to-day experience is totally mediated by data.

  • Yet Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited Cairo to thank el-Sissi for mediating the peace deal.

  • You could also invest in a reputable carbon offset program to mediate the emissions from your plant’s trip.

  • The deputy offered by Leung to mediate, Carrie Lam, is also hated by many.

  • I know for a fact that in my own case Oman was asked to mediate on our behalf directly by the US government.

  • I would try to mediate his feuds with other teachers or the more authoritarian vice principal before they blew up.

  • Savile allegedly helped to mediate between Charles and Diana as their marriage foundered.

  • The fight was so harsh that Jiang Zemin [the former president] had to mediate.

  • The critic steps in between this satirist and the poet—steps in to mediate.

  • These bodies were composed of the mediate prelates, the mediate nobles and representatives of the mediate cities.

  • Maximilian found time to make earnest but unavailing efforts to mediate between his cousin, Philip II.

  • We may also classify knowledge from another point of view as necessary (or immediate), and demonstrated (or mediate).

  • It is right that in the designs of nature pleasure should only be a mediate end, or a means; but for art it is the highest end.