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    When you amend something, you change it a little so it is more correct, fairer, or clearer. People mostly amend writing that has official weight: a law, a contract, a plan, a statement. It is a careful, rather formal word. You do not amend a chair or a sandwich; you those, or just change them. In parliament, members amend a bill before it becomes law. You can also amend what you have just said, taking a small part back and putting better wording in. The old thing stays. You are not throwing it away and starting again — you are taking faults out.

    修正、修訂（多指法律、合約、文件，不是隨口說的「改一下」）

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組成From Latin ēmendō, “free from faults”: ex (“out of, from”) + mendum (“a fault”). It came through Old French amender and Middle English amenden.

同家族的字

  • mendsame Latin mendum (“fault”); mend is the shorter English form
  • emenddoublet from the same Latin ēmendō; now used mainly for fixing a text
  • amendmentthe noun for a change you put into a document or law

原始詞典資料8 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

Amendname

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    A surname.

amendverb/əˈmɛnd/

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    To make better; improve.

    • Mud not the fountain that gave drink to thee; Mar not the thing that cannot be amended.
    • We shall cheer her sorrows, and amend her blood, by wedding her to a Norman.
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    To become better.

    • The teacher sat at one end of the bench, with a meek little fellow by his side. When the others were disorderly, this young martyr received a rap; intended, probably, as a sample of what the rest might expect, if they didn't amend.
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    obsoleteTo heal (someone sick); to cure (a disease etc.).

    • But Paridell complaynd, that his late fight / With Britomart, so sore did him offend, / That ryde he could not, till his hurts he did amend.
    • he gave her a vomit, and conveyed a serpent, such as she conceived, into the basin; upon the sight of it she was amended.
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    obsoleteTo be healed, to be cured, to recover (from an illness).

    • Ay, sir; there are a crew of wretched souls That stay his cure: their malady convinces The great assay of art; but at his touch— Such sanctity hath heaven given his hand— They presently amend.
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    To make a formal alteration (in legislation, a report, etc.) by adding, deleting, or rephrasing.

    • We amended the rules so that we could admit 20 more members to the club.
    • The following motions cannot be amended:

amendnoun/əˈmɛnd/

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    An act of righting a wrong; compensation.

    • Thus by the code of the Visigoths, it was forbidden to all strangers to take their subjects under a penalty of one hundred lashes and an amend in gold.
    • It was her offer of surrender as an amend that, persuading him of her shining honesty, had aroused in him something akin to worship and had made an end of that cynical spirit in which for worldly ends he had aimed at marrying her.

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資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。