| 词组 | enable |
| 释义 | enable "To make possible, practical, or easy" is a sense of enable that appeared for a time in the 17th century then fell into disuse before resurfacing again at the end of the 19th century. In recent years this sense has had regular use, though it remains much less common than the sense "to make able". A few critics dislike it, but most usage writers favor it with a healthy neglect. • ... to enable admission of the best candidates — N.Y. Times, 22 June 1952 • ... it enabled passage of the anti-poll-tax law — Henry F. & Katharine Pringle, Saturday Evening Post, 19 June 1954 • ... a congenial literary form that would enable coherence and control —Robert Coles, New Republic, 15 Apr. 1967 • ... a new design was produced that enables the resolution of volume strain into areal ... and vertical strains —Caryl P. Haskins, President's Report, Carnegie Institution of Washington, D.C., 1969-1970 |
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