mend fences
补习班,补习功课,补习生,补习
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Definitions
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- : 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.
- : the act, practice, art, or sport of fencing.
- : skill in argument, repartee, etc.
- : Machinery. a guard or guide, as for regulating the movements of a tool or work.
- : Carpentry. a slotted guide used especially with a framing square to lay out cuts on rafters and staircase strings.
- : Archaic. a means of defense; a bulwark.
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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.
- : to ward off; keep out.
- : Informal. to sell to a fence.
- : Nautical. to reinforce by sewing on a grommet or other device.
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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.
Phrases
- fence in
- fence with
- mend one's fences
- on the fence
- straddle the fence
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
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.