单词 | enable |
释义 | enable (once / 102 pages) v When you make something possible, you enable it. Your good grades might enable you to get into your first-choice college. And a great teacher enabled you to get such good grades. Enable has taken on the meaning of allowing or even helping someone continue to do something they really shouldn't. If your mother writes note after note to get you out of school for no good reason, she is enabling your habit of playing hooky. While you might think she's being cool, a therapist might call her an enabler and give her part of the blame. WORD FAMILYenable: disenable, enabled, enables, enabling+/ability: abilities, inability/able: ability, abler, ablest, ably, disable, enable, unable/disability: disabilities/disable: disabled, disablement, disables, disabling/disabled: disability/disablement: disablements/disenable: disenabled, disenabling/inability: inabilities/unable: unablest, unably USAGE EXAMPLESAdvocates say affordable, quality child care helps with youth development and enables more parents to hold jobs and attend school. Washington Post(Dec 22, 2016) Security Council vote that demanded Israel end all settlement activity — enabling the resolution’s passage. Washington Post(Jan 02, 2017) Mr. Qarau hopes that his conservation work will create a sustainable harvest, enabling Fijians to eat turtles again. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) v render capable or able for some task This skill will enable you to find a job on Wall Street The rope enables you to secure yourself when you climb the mountain Ant|Hypo|Hyper disable, disenable, incapacitate make unable to perform a certain action equip provide with abilities or understanding empower, endow, endue, gift, indue, investgive qualities or abilities to coverinvest with a large or excessive amount of something alter, change, modify cause to change; make different; cause a transformation |
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