emend
/ih-mend/US // ɪˈmɛnd //UK // (ɪˈmɛnd) //
修订,修改,补上,加大
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Definitions
v.有主动词 verb
- 1
- : to edit or change.
- : to free from faults or errors; correct.
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Examples
Partly with the help of Toup, we may emend this corrupt passage as follows: , , .
To emend the Vulgate by the Hebrew and Greek is exactly what the heretics seek to do.
Second, all critics have agreed to condemn the digression in which Theobald advertised his ability to emend Greek texts.
Some of these are trivial slips that a scribe copying B might emend on his own initiative, or perhaps by a lucky mistake.
The alteration is very slight, affecting only one letter, and may be due to error in transcription or to mere desire to emend.
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