enabling

柯林斯詞典

enable /?n?e?b?l/ (enabling,enabled,enables)

• 1. V-T If someone or something enables you to do a particular thing, they give you the opportunity to do it. 使能夠

  The new test should enable doctors to detect the disease early. 新的檢驗使醫(yī)生能在早期發(fā)現(xiàn)該種疾病。

• 2. V-T To enable something to happen means to make it possible for it to happen. 使成為可能

  The hot sun enables the grapes to reach optimum ripeness. 炙熱的陽光使葡萄能達到最佳成熟狀態(tài)。

• 3. V-T To enable someone to do something means to give them permission or the right to do it. 允許

  ...legislation which enables young people to do a form of alternative service. …允許年輕人通過一種替代性服務(wù)來服刑的立法。

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