这五个词都可表示“修理”“修补”。它们的区别是:
1.fix是口语用词。
2.repair是一般用词,凡是损坏、损伤、故障,尤其是收音机、手表、汽车、炉子等这类的机械装置需要“修理”“维修”时用repair。例如:
We have repaired the motor.我们已经修好了电动机。
Xiao Wang is repairing desks and chairs in the classroom.小王正在教室里修理桌椅。
The puncture has been repaired.那个洞被补上了。
The house must be repaired from top to bottom.这所房子必须彻底进行修理。
3.mend多指修补磨损、穿破、撕毁的简单日常用品,也可用于比喻,指改进行为、修改法律、治愈感情创伤等。例如:
Let me mend the socks for you.让我来给你补袜子。
The child will soon mend if she has enough to eat.这孩子如果有足够的东西吃就会很快恢复健康。
The relations between John and David are mending.约翰与戴维的关系在改善。
It is never too late to mend.改过不嫌晚。
It is not too late to mend the fold even after some of the sheep have been lost.亡羊补牢,犹未为晚。
4.amend是正式用语,含有改造人或法规的缺陷与不足之意。例如:
You must amend your pronunciation.你必须改正你的发音。
The thief has amended.这小偷改过自新了。
It's time you amended your ways.是你改过自新的时候了。
The regulations are amended.这些规则被修正了。
5.patch指用一块材料把有洞的地方、有裂痕的地方、被穿破的地方贴起来。例如:
The workman patched the ceiling.工人修补了天花板。
This piece of material is just right to patch the roof.这块材料正好可用来补屋顶。
He patched all the fences near the house.他把靠近房子的围墙全都修了。
这些动词都含“修理、修复”之意。
mend通常指较简单的修复过程,一般不需要专门技术或特殊工具。
repair可与mend换用,但一般指需要较高的职业技能和使用较复杂的工具进行修理。
patch通常指用类似材料修补破洞、裂缝或磨损的地方。
fix多用于美语,仅用于指带有安装,固定性质的修理。
词源记忆法
patch与单词piece同源,因此其含义是“piece of cloth used to mend another material”,也就是“用来修补其它东西的一块儿布”。
重要短语
patch clamp膜片箝
patch up修补;平息;拼凑
in patches在有些部分;在有些时候
patch test n.[医]斑片试验;皮肤过敏试验
Older machines will need a software patch to be loaded to correct the date.
老些的机器需要下载软件补丁来修改日期。
来源:《柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典》The patch enables smokers to wean themselves off cigarettes very gradually.
这张贴片能使吸烟者很缓慢地把烟戒掉.
来源:《简明英汉词典》I've been bashed up by people with baseball bats because they said I was thieving on their patch.
我被人用棒球球棒打伤了,因为他们说我在他们的地盘上偷东西。
来源:《柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典》With fewer tourists in town, the taxi trade is going through its leanest patch for 30 years.
随着城里游客的减少,出租车行业正遭受30年来最不景气的时期。
来源:《柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典》She has gone on holiday with her husband to try to patch up their marriage.
她和她丈夫一起去度假了,以期弥合他们婚姻的裂隙。
来源:《柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典》Do you think it possible to patch up a piece of furniture or two with this wood?
你认为用这些木料可能勉强做成一两件家具 吗 ?
来源:《简明英汉词典》The plane had plowed a path through a patch of forest before coming to rest in a field.
飞机猛冲过一片森林,在一片田野中停了下来。
来源:《柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典》In the last 10 minutes Tranmere struck a purple patch which culminated in their goal.
最后10分钟,特兰米尔队时来运转,终于收获了进球。
来源:《柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典》He hit a bad patch this year, having two operations in three months.
今年他可倒霉了, 3个月内开了两次刀.
来源:《现代汉英综合大词典》My son and his girlfriend have had yet another row, but no doubt they'll patch it up by the weekend.
我儿子和他女朋友又吵了一架, 但到周末他们会和好的.
来源:《简明英汉词典》His finger went up to touch the black patch which covered his left eye.
他伸手去触摸遮住左眼的黑眼罩。
来源:《柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典》All of a sudden she seemed to want to make peace and patch up our quarrel.
突然她似乎想要和好,结束我们之间的争吵。
来源:《柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典》She went to the hospital and found him lying down with a patch over his eye.
她去了医院,发现他躺着,一只眼睛戴着眼罩。
来源:《柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典》
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