| 单词 | provide |
| 释义 | pro·vide intransitive verb 1. a. < provide against an inflationary economy > < provide for the common defense — U.S. Constitution > b. obsolete < men … providing to live another time — Alexander Pope > 2. < provided for the adoption of collective measures — Vera M. Dean > 3. < the Lord will provide > < we'll have to provide for him — Ellen Glasgow > transitive verb 1. archaic < provide us all things necessary — Shakespeare > 2. a. < provided the children with the books they needed > < provide the car with a radio > b. < olives … provide an important item of food — W.B.Fisher > < the preface … provides a hint — L.R.McColvin > 3. < the contract provides that the work be completed by a given date > 4. obsolete Synonyms: < to provide for one's wife and children > < provide the safeguard we need against the abuse of mankind's scientific genius for destructive ends — Vera M. Dean > < to provide military aid and missions for friendly countries — Current Biography > supply may apply to providing what is needed, sometimes to making up a deficiency, replacing losses or depletions, filling a gap < the book would be incomplete without some such discussion as I have tried to supply — W.R.Inge > < an age which supplied the lack of moral habits by a system of moral attitudes and poses — T.S.Eliot > < doctors or others supplying medical care to assistance recipients — Americana Annual > furnish, also often interchangeable with provide and supply, may sometimes apply to equipping or giving something needed in a particular situation < the first attempt in history to furnish the international society of nations with a permanent and organic system of international political institutions — P.J.Noel-Baker > < our failure, he believes, is not a failure to furnish education for the average — College English > |
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