Enable

(verb.) render capable or able for some task; 'This skill will enable you to find a job on Wall Street'; 'The rope enables you to secure yourself when you climb the mountain'.

凯西整理

• Nothing but concern for Elizabeth could enable Bingley to keep his countenance. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• It will require a very great one to enable them to do so in the rude produce of the soil. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Just the reason why we should take something to enable us to bear up against the fatigue,' remonstrated Mr. Bob Sawyer. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Presently he stopped and picked out a square piece of board, such as is usually left to enable plumbers to get at the joints of the gas-pipes. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• This little rectory CAN do no more than make Mr. Ferrars comfortable as a bachelor; it cannot enable him to marry. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• It might undoubtedly enable me to put four horses to my carriage; but what would it avail me to have it said that Sir Humphrey drives his carriage and four? 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• Come, said Adrian, I have promised for you, enable me to keep my engagement. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• So convenient a thing it is to be a _reasonable creature_, since _it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do_. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• I found the ash of a cigar, which my special knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian cigar. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• It is the constructive, creative power which raises man above the level of the beast and enables him to devise and fashion wonderful inventions. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• As he came into the circle of dim light which enables me to see him more clearly I was thrilled with horror at his appearance. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• It is really the presence or absence of overtones which enables us to distinguish the note of the piano from that of the violin, flute, or clarinet. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• A careful study of these reports enables one to forecast to some extent the probable weather conditions of the day. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Nothing but the strength of his purpose enables him to make it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• This, rising above the water, and provided with reflecting lenses, enabled the steersman to discover the surface conditions and see any near vessel or other object. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• An acquaintance with the apprentices of booksellers enabled me sometimes to borrow a small one, which I was careful to return soon and clean. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• We shall, however, be enabled to discuss what circumstances are most favourable to variation. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• The more diversified in habits and structure the descendants of our carnivorous animals become, the more places they will be enabled to occupy. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• Then let it be so,' rejoined Rose; 'it is but one pang the more, and by that time I may be enabled to bear it better. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• This enabled the enemy to bring almost his entire strength into the field. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• It would afford us the highest gratification to be enabled to record Mr. Pickwick's opinion of the foregoing anecdote. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• The important feature of this boat was a diver’s compartment, enabling divers to leave the vessel when submerged, for the purpose of operating on wrecks or performing other undersea duties. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Holley of the United States improved the Bessemer apparatus by enabling a greater number of charges to be converted into steel within a given time. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Flint glass contains lead; the lead makes the glass dense, and gives it great refractive power, enabling it to bend and separate light in all directions. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• The strength of that passion had been a power enabling him to master all the knowledge necessary to gratify it. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• It is a similar certificate, enabling him and his daughter and her child, at any time, to pass the barrier and the frontier! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• Such machines, costing nearly a thousand dollars, produce from forty to sixty barrels of crackers a day, enabling them to be sold at about 5 cents a pound at retail. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• All language can achieve is to act as a guidepost to the imagination enabling the reader to recreate the author's insight. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.

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