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reform

/ri-fawrm/US // rɪˈfɔrm //UK // (rɪˈfɔːm) //

改革,改革,改革开放,改革开放

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the improvement or amendment of what is wrong, corrupt, unsatisfactory, etc.: social reform; spelling reform.
    • : an instance of this.
    • : the amendment of conduct, belief, etc.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to change to a better state, form, etc.; improve by alteration, substitution, abolition, etc.
    • : to cause to abandon wrong or evil ways of life or conduct.
    • : to put an end to.
    • : Chemistry. to subject to the process of reforming, as in refining petroleum.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to abandon evil conduct or error: The drunkard promised to reform.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of, relating to, or characteristic of Reform Jews or Reform Judaism: a Reform rabbi.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbcorrect, rectify
Forms: reformed, reforms
Synonyms
amend修订,修改,修正,修正了improve改善,改进,完善,提高rebuild重建,改建,改造,翻修rehabilitate恢复,恢复名誉,修复,改造remake改造,重造,翻拍,重制renovate翻修,翻造,翻盖,翻拍reorganize改组,整顿,重整旗鼓,重组repair维修,修复,修理,修补resolve决心,解决,决定,解决问题restore恢复,修复,恢复重建,恢复原状态revise修改,修订,审校,审阅revolutionize彻底改变,革新,革命化,彻底改造standardize规范化,统一标准,统一,规范transform转变,转换,改造,转化ameliorate缓和,改善,缓解,缓和气氛better更好的,更好,更好地,较好的convert转换,兑换,转化,转换成correct正确的,正确,纠正,更正cure治愈,治疗,疗法,治好emend修订,修改,补上,加大mend补,修补,缝补,补足rearrange改编,重新安排,重新编排,改写reclaim收回,回收,收回来,填海造地reconstitute重组,重构,重建,再造reconstruct重构,重建,重修,重造redeem赎回,挽回,兑换,赎罪refashion重新设计,改装,改造,改写时尚regenerate再生,再生的,再生者,再生机remedy补救措施,补救,补救办法,补救方法remodel改造,改装,改建,重塑renew更新,延长,革新,翻新rework返工,复工,再造,再加工uplift振作起来,振奋人心,振奋,振作bring up to code更新change one's ways改邪归正,改过自新,改弦易辙,改弦更张clean up清理,清理干净,清理工作,肃清clean up one's act洗心革面,改邪归正,改过自新go straight直行,直走,直奔主题,直行道make amends赔礼道歉,补过,赔罪,补足make over翻修,改造,改装,翻拍shape up振作起来,塑身,振作精神,振作起来吧swear off发誓,宣誓,誓死不从,誓约turn over a new leaf改邪归正,改过自新,洗心革面

Examples

  • Some lawmakers, including presidential candidate Joe Biden, have suggested that the way forward on police reform is to help improve relations between the community and police by increasing the number of positive interactions between the two groups.

  • Setting far more fires will require sweeping regulatory reforms to streamline the approvals process.

  • San Diego County also threw its support Tuesday behind a November ballot measure that asks Californians to undo several criminal justice reforms passed by voters over the last decade.

  • It’s part of American tradition, but we need to get to a suite of solutions to deal with police reform.

  • He said he spoke out about it to ProPublica because he opposes Medicare-for-all health care reform proposals.

  • But failing that, he advised pro-immigration reform Republican candidates such as former Gov. Jeb Bush to just skip the state.

  • There, many minority parents supported Tom Torklarson, who favored the education reform agenda.

  • It was a Republican Congress working with a Democratic president that succeeded in passing the welfare reform bill the first time.

  • Sometimes politicians oppose reform for nefarious reasons—to protect a special interest or a major donor, for example.

  • Sorkin may not have won his fight, ostensibly to reform the news.

  • He would impeach all his partners, acknowledge his errors, and promise once more to reform.

  • We may apply to it with advantage the spectacles of social reform, but what the socialist offers us is total blindness.

  • In its essential nature socialism is nothing but a proposal for certain kinds of economic reform.

  • One naturally asks, then, To what extent can social reform penetrate into the ordinary operation of industry itself?

  • The shortening of the general hours of work, then, should be among the primary aims of social reform.