柯林斯詞典redress /r??dr?s/ (redressing,redressed,redresses) 名詞在美國英語中亦讀作r??dr?s。1. V-T If you redress something such as a wrong or a complaint, you do something to correct it or to improve things for the person who has been badly treated. 糾正; 補(bǔ)救[正式] More and more victims turn to litigation to redress wrongs done to them. 越來越多的受害者訴諸法律以獲得平反。2. V-T If you redress the balance or the imbalance between two things that have become unfair or unequal, you make them fair and equal again. 使恢複 (平衡)[正式] So we're trying to redress the balance and to give teachers a sense that both spoken and written language are equally important. 所以我們正力求平衡,讓老師們感覺到口語和書麪語同樣重要。3. N-UNCOUNT Redress is money that someone pays you because they have caused you harm or loss. 賠款; 賠償[正式] They are continuing their legal battle to seek some redress from the government. 他們正繼續(xù)打官司以曏政府尋求一些賠償。 返回 redress劍橋詞典to put right a wrong or give payment for a wrong that has been done 糾正,矯正;補(bǔ)償,曏…賠償損失 Most managers , politicians and bosses are men - how can women redress the balance (= make the situation fairer and more equal )? 大多數(shù)的經(jīng)理、政治家和老板都是男性——女性怎樣才能改變這種不平衡的狀況呢? 返回 redress