| 单词 | restore |
| 释义 | restore (rɪstɔːʳ ) Word forms: restores , restoring , restored 1. verb To restore a situation or practice means to cause it to exist again. The army has recently been brought in to restore order. [VERB noun] As they smiled at each other, harmony was restored again. [VERB noun] The death penalty was never restored. [VERB noun] Synonyms: reinstate, re-establish, reintroduce, reimpose restoration (restəreɪʃən ) uncountable noun His visit is expected to lead to the restoration of diplomatic relations. [+ of] They were committed to the eventual restoration of a traditional monarchy. Synonyms: reinstatement, return, revival, restitution 2. verb B2 To restore someone or something to a previous condition means to cause them to be in that condition once again. We will restore her to health but it may take time. [VERB noun + to] He said the ousted president must be restored to power. [VERB noun to noun] His country desperately needs Western aid to restore its ailing economy. [VERB noun] Synonyms: revive, build up, strengthen, bring back restoration uncountable noun I owe the restoration of my hearing to this remarkable new technique. [+ of] Synonyms: reinstatement, return, revival, restitution 3. verb B2 When someone restores something such as an old building, painting, or piece of furniture, they repair and clean it, so that it looks like it did when it was new. ...experts who specialise in examining and restoring ancient parchments. [VERB noun] ...the beautifully restored old town square. [VERB-ed] restoration Word forms: restorations variable noun I specialized in the restoration of old houses. [+ of] The bones were 'mislaid' during the seventeenth-century restorations. Synonyms: reinstatement, return, revival, restitution Synonyms: repair, recovery, reconstruction, renewal 4. verb [usually passive] If something that was lost or stolen is restored to its owner, it is returned to them. [formal] The following day their horses and goods were restored to them. [be VERB-ed + to] The burglars were arrested and my stolen property was restored. [be VERB-ed] Synonyms: return, replace, recover, bring back Collocations: restore a semblance That's how long it took the authorities to restore some semblance of order on the pitch. The Sun In the end it took the referee threatening to walk off to restore a semblance of order. Times,Sunday Times With advances in electronics and neuroscience, researchers have been able to achieve remarkable things with brain implant devices, such as restoring a semblance of sight to the blind. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A prosthetic hand powered by its wearer’s thoughts has restored a semblance of touch to a man whose arm was amputated below the elbow 17 years ago. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Similarly, if the scientists are clever enough to restore a sense of touch, perhaps they could also install a sense of timing. Times, Sunday Times Singing has been proven to relax and restore a sense of emotional wellbeing. The Sun It will clear your mind and restore a sense of control. The Sun He will need to be at his piratical best and restore the sense of invulnerability of the autumn. Times, Sunday Times Above all, both want to restore the sense of togetherness and long-term vision that has been lost over recent years. Times, Sunday Times Now, we need to learn if it's possible to restore hearing in a deaf mouse mutant, experiments that are ongoing. Times, Sunday Times Scientists found that artemisinin helped restore hearing and balance in fish. The Sun Research on the regrowth of cochlea cells may lead to medical treatments that restore hearing. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In less severe cases the reconstruction will be sufficient to restore hearing. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It also restored hearing when administered within a few hours. The Sun Our politicians and bankers face a simple choice: either normal private banking services are restored quickly or governments take direct control. Times, Sunday Times Several stewards were on hand to deal with the situation and order was restored quickly. The Sun Several residential communities were totally underwater from the rainfall, with local roads being washed away from landslides and floodwater, but these were restored quickly. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 National service, a stop on all-day drinking and a ban on supermarkets selling alcohol could restore sanity. The Sun Axing some of the wilder outposts of these businesses will restore sanity. Times, Sunday Times The media could do a lot to restore sanity. Times, Sunday Times We are working on the problem and will restore service shortly. Globe and Mail Proposals for high-speed rail could also restore service for several cities. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Many smart meters now include a switch to interrupt or restore service. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It took eight days to restore service, as snow was dug out by hand. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In 2010 plans were to restore service between 2011 and 2018. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 To restore sight the surgeon cuts away the abnormal cornea and replaces it with a corneal graft. The Sun A new therapy could restore sight to millions of blind people by switching on cells buried deep in the walls of their eyes, a study suggests. Times, Sunday Times The technology cannot restore sight to patients who are blind because of severe optic nerve damage, such as that caused by glaucoma, or because of a stroke. Times, Sunday Times One of his scripts, he says, was the first radio drama about a physical transplant, a corneal transplant of a human eye to restore sight. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 One day, two ravens were talking in the garden, saying that the dew in a certain part of the garden would restore sight. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 These concerns were overlooked in 2008, when regulators were battling to restore stability in a sector on the brink of collapse. Times, Sunday Times He emphasised the need for a political solution to restore stability. Times, Sunday Times They drive away tension, restore stability and rekindle my energy. ST First, he needs to restore stability to the public finances. Times, Sunday Times Many said they supported the constitution because they wanted to restore stability. Times, Sunday Times Yet restoring the status quo ante will be phenomenally hard. Times, Sunday Times (2008) They must restore the status quo. Times, Sunday Times (2013) But by catching them, you restore the status quo, so far as that's possible. CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD (2001) Senior police leaders need to make it happen to restore trust. Times, Sunday Times I'm sure more bad news will follow, but it's necessary to restore trust in our organisation. Times, Sunday Times It will be a government that seeks to restore trust in politics in this country. Times, Sunday Times But stories like this are, hopefully, helping to restore trust between private equity and the institutions. Times, Sunday Times Instead, he declared his candidature with a short video on the need to 'restore trust' and spread economic opportunities. Times, Sunday Times An agreement to restore unity was signed in 2002, but it has taken four years to arrange a match that will produce a single champion. Times, Sunday Times The explicit aim of the conferences was to promote meaningful communication across scientific disciplines, and restore unity to science. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The value of their point was hard to gauge, given other results, but their performance, their renewed purpose, the restored unity between the team and their supporters, seemed important. Times, Sunday Times He faces the urgent task of restoring unity to the political centre right while dealing with the country's most challenging economic circumstances for at least 20 years. Times, Sunday Times Several surgeries over the next few months could not restore vision in the eye. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 When these sheets are transplanted over the damaged cornea, the stem cells stimulate renewed repair, eventually restore vision. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Gene therapy seems to be the most prominent field that might be able to restore vision through therapy. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In recent years, researchers have successfully developed experimental brain-computer interfaces or neuroprosthesis that stimulate phosphenes to restore vision to people blinded through accidents. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 If technological advances proceed as planned this technology may be used by thousands of blind people and restore vision to most of them. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Translations: Chinese: 恢复 Japanese: 修復する |
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