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mending

/men-ding/US // ˈmɛn dɪŋ //UK // (ˈmɛndɪŋ) //

补缀,修补,补习,缝补

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the act of a person or thing that mends.
    • : articles, especially clothes, to be mended: Grandmother always kept her mending in this wicker basket.

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Examples

  • So, he decided to give the church a chance, if not just for the sake of mending his relationship with his mother.

  • For years, Schmidt lived in poverty, eating beans and mending his clothes with flour sacks.

  • London may as well also require that cabbies master the art of saddling a horse and mending a harness.

  • It is coming together now, mending, he sees it in paragraphs, is almost afraid to sleep for losing the connections.

  • One recent survey showed a clear majority believed that neither party was capable of mending “Broken Britain.”

  • Some mending of the text is absolutely necessary, because shette is altogether a false form; the pp.

  • Those that I now saw were yoked in twos or threes to large waggons, full of stones for mending the roads.

  • Sometime, she reflected, she would be mending worn garments for another man, now far away.

  • After that home and to bed, reading myself asleep, while the wench sat mending my breeches by my bedside.

  • She goes to market with her father's cook, makes delicious pickles and preserves, and hasn't her equal in mending and darning.'