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To redress something means to fix or correct a situation that is unfair, often by making up for harm that was done — "redress an imbalance" or "redress a wrong." As a noun, redress is the correction or compensation itself, especially in a legal or formal sense — "seek redress" means to ask for something to be made right, often through money or an apology. It's a fairly formal word, more common in writing, law, or news than in everyday talk.
糾正、補救(不公平的事);(名詞)賠償、平反
組成re- ("again") + dress, here used in its older sense of "to set right" or "arrange" — the same root behind putting on clothes ("dress") and giving a speech ("address").
同家族的字
- addressshares the same old root meaning "to set right/direct"
原始詞典資料11 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。
redressverb詞源 1/ɹɪˈdɹɛs/
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To put in order again; to set right; to revise.
- Let us divide our labours; thou, where choice / Leads thee, or where most needs, whether to wind / The woodbine round this arbour, or direct / The clasping ivy where to climb; while I, / In yonder spring of roses intermixed / With myrtle, find what to redress till noon: […]
- Sir; When last in Philadelphia, you mentioned to me your wish that I should re-dress a certain paper, which you had prepared. As it is important, that a thing of this kind should be done with great care, and much at leisure, touched and retouched, I submit a wish, that, as soon as you have given it the body you mean it to have, it may be sent to me.
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To set right (a wrong); to repair, (an injury or damage); to make amends for; to remedy; to relieve from.
- And for thoſe Wrongs, thoſe bitter Iniuries, […] / I doubt not, but with Honor to redreſſe.
- The approach has been met with little acceptance and, in our view, for reasons we described elsewhere[…], cannot fundamentally redress the inequality described above.
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To make amends or compensation to; to relieve of anything unjust or oppressive; to bestow relief upon.
- Nor envy we / Thy great reknown, nor grudge thy victory; / 'Tis thine, O king! the afflicted to redress, / And fame has fill'd the world with thy success: […]
- Hereditary bondsmen! know ye not / Who would be free themselves must strike the blow? / By their right arms the conquest must be wrought? / Will Gaul or Muscovite redress ye? no!
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obsoleteTo put upright again; to restore.
- Syr ſaid Dynadan I ſhalle gyue you my beholdynge / wel ſaid Palomydes / thenne ſhall ye ſee how we ſhalle redreſſe our myghtes
redressnoun詞源 1/ɹɪˈdɹɛs/
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The act of redressing; a making right; amendment; correction; reformation.
- Iohn. [of Lancaster] […] Let's drinke together friendly, and embrace, / That all their eyes may beare thoſe Tokens home, / Of our reſtored Loue and Amitie. / Biſh. [Archbishop of York] I take your Princely word, for theſe redreſſes.
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A setting right, as of injury, oppression, or wrong, such as the redress of grievances; hence, indemnification; relief; remedy; reparation.
- Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
- "Good heavens!" cried Elizabeth; "but how could that be?—How could his will be disregarded?—Why did you not seek legal redress?"
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A possibility to set right, or a possibility to seek a remedy, for instance in court
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One who, or that which, gives relief; a redresser.
redressverb詞源 2/ˌɹiːˈdɹɛs/
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To dress again.
- The top soil, which was removed before the main excavations, is being redressed on the new slopes to a depth of 4 in. and sown with grass seed.
- The teacher first undressed and redressed the doll for the child, then showed her how to pull the snaps apart. No other activity interested the little girl, and after repeated demonstrations she was still trying unsuccessfully to undress the doll.
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broadcastingfilmmediaTo redecorate a previously existing film set so that it can double for another set.
- Meanwhile the actors rearranged themselves into a different blocking, as the prop department redressed the set.
- [Val] Lewton would redress standing sets, turning a church into an insane asylum or the staircase for Orson Welles' The Magnificent Ambersons into the staircase for the young girl's apartment in Cat People. […] [Y]ou should be thinking about trying to reuse every location you have as another location, either by using another room or another angle or re-dressing what's already there.
redressnoun詞源 2/ˌɹiːˈdɹɛs/
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broadcastingfilmmediaThe redecoration of a previously existing film set so that it can double for another set.
- The Honeydukes set in this film is a redress of the set of Flourish and Blotts that was seen in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, which, in turn, was a redress of the Ollivander's set from the first film.
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。