mend fences 的 3 个定义
- a barrier enclosing or bordering a field, yard, etc., usually made of vertical posts connected with horizontal sections of sturdy material or materials, as wood, metal, vinyl, or wire, used to prevent entrance, to confine, or to mark a boundary: Our garden fence is not high enough to keep the deer out.
- Informal. a person who receives and disposes of stolen goods.
- the place of business of such a person.
- (8)
fenced, fenc·ing.
- to enclose by some barrier, establishing exclusive right to possession: to fence a farm.
- to separate by or as by a fence or fences: to fence off a corner of one's yard; to fence out unwholesome influences.
- to defend; protect; guard: The president was fenced by bodyguards wherever he went.
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fenced, fenc·ing.
- to practice the art or sport of fencing.
- to parry arguments; strive to avoid giving direct answers; hedge: The mayor fenced when asked if he would run again.
- to leap over a fence.
- Obsolete. to raise a defense.
mend fences 近义词
make peace
mend fences 的近义词 1 个
由mend fences构成的短语
- fence in
- fence with
- mend one's fences
- on the fence
- straddle the fence
更多mend fences例句
- That means each team faces a lot more uncertainty about whether to buy or sell, especially when it comes to the large middle group of teams on the fence about which strategy is best.
- We chained ourselves to the fences of Soviet consulates and embassies.
- About 18 months later, the bull tossed Fisher into the air like an inconvenience and rammed him into the fence.
- NBC 7 reports that the city recently put up a fence to stop the gatherings after getting reports that not all the participants were wearing masks or social distancing.
- A gutted ballfield surrounded by a 10-foot chain-link fence is the only space resembling a park in the Sherman Heights neighborhood.
- Strandf could photograph anything from a blind woman to a picket fence and make the image indelible.
- I have the unique advantage of seeing this from both sides of the fence.
- At this point, he became Tom Sawyer, letting his musical compatriots—and the folk tradition—help paint his musical fence.
- But what about the screams, the salty puddles, and big empty packages of frozen fish lying on the ground outside the fence?
- On Thursday, Leyland fled her home after a photographer snapped her photo from behind her garden fence.
- I saw every crook in the fence, every rut in the road, every bush and tree long before we came to it.
- Another fence: who would furnish that two hundred and fifty dollars and secure him for the remainder?
- They stopped, leaning over a jagged fence made of sea-drift, to ask for water.
- I raised my pipe above my head and hurled it against the fence, where it crashed into a score of pieces.
- In 1837 the churchyard had some pleasant walks along the sides, bounded by a low wooden fence, and skirted with trees.