把舊東西修回原貌
放回去的是一件實體的東西：把老屋、老畫、老車修到像新的時候那樣。
restore/repair (object) · verb · B2
To repair something old, such as a painting, building, or vehicle, so that it looks the way it did when it was new.
修復；整修（老舊的建築、畫作、車輛等）
核心畫面
Picture something that used to be a certain way, then was lost or damaged, and is now put back as it was. Restore is that putting-back. The word always looks over its shoulder at an earlier state — order before the riot, paint before it , a king before he was — which is why it never simply means "make good".
可以想成：一樣東西本來是某個樣子，後來壞了或失去了，現在被弄回原本的樣子。restore 就是這個「放回去」。這個字…更多收起
可以想成：一樣東西本來是某個樣子，後來壞了或失去了，現在被弄回原本的樣子。restore 就是這個「放回去」。這個字永遠回頭看著一個更早的狀態——暴動前的秩序、褪色前的顏料、被廢黜前的國王——所以它從來不只是「弄好」，而是「弄回去」。沒有那個「本來」，就用不上它。From the picture
把東西或地位還回去
放回去的是「歸屬」：東西回到原主手上，人回到原本的位子上。
give back (formal) · verb · B2
To formally give something back to the person or place it belonged to before.
歸還；交還（正式用法）
Also in this word
restore (situation) · verb · B2
To make a situation go back to the way it was before, especially after trouble or damage.
恢復（秩序、和平等狀況）
restore (confidence) · verb · B2
To make someone feel a positive feeling, such as hope, confidence, or trust, again after they lost it.
恢復（信心、希望等正面感覺）
restore (law/custom) · verb · B2
To bring back a law, rule, or custom that existed in the past but had stopped.
恢復（法律、制度或舊習俗）
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。
restoreverb/ɹɪˈstɔː/
- 1
To reestablish, or bring back into existence.
- to restore harmony among those who are at variance
- He restored my lost faith in him by doing a good deed.
- 2
To bring back to good condition from a state of decay or ruin.
- and his hand was restored whole as the other
- our fortune restored after the severest afflictions
- 3
To give or bring back (that which has been lost or taken); to bring back to the owner; to replace.
- Now therefore restore the man his wife.
- Loss of Eden, till one greater man / Restore us, and regain the blissful seat.
- 4
To give in place of, or as restitution for.
- He shall restore five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.
- 5
computingengineeringmathematicsTo recover (data, etc.) from a backup.
- There was a crash last night, and we're still restoring the file system.
- 6
entertainmentlifestylemusicTo bring (a note) back to its original signification.
- 7
obsoleteTo make good; to make amends for.
- But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, / All losses are restored, and sorrows end.
restorenoun/ɹɪˈstɔː/
- 1
computingengineeringmathematicsThe act of recovering data or a system from a backup.
- We backed up the data successfully, but the restore failed.
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。