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 enable [i'neibl]   添加此单词到默认生词本
vt. 使能够

[计] 允许, 使能, 打开


  1. The collapse of the strike enabled the company to resume normal bus services.
    罢工的失败使公司恢复了正常的公共汽车营业。
  2. I gave him full directions to enable him to find the house.
    我向他作了详细说明, 好让他能找到那房子.
  3. Birds' wings enable them to fly.
    鸟的翅膀使它们能飞。


enable
[ verb ]
render capable or able for some task
<verb.change>
This skill will enable you to find a job on Wall StreetThe rope enables you to secure yourself when you climb the mountain


Enable \En*a"ble\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Enabled}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Enabling}.]
1. To give strength or ability to; to make firm and strong.
[Obs.] ``Who hath enabled me.'' --1 Tim. i. 12.

Receive the Holy Ghost, said Christ to his apostles,
when he enabled them with priestly power. --Jer.
Taylor.

2. To make able (to do, or to be, something); to confer
sufficient power upon; to furnish with means,
opportunities, and the like; to render competent for; to
empower; to endow.

Temperance gives Nature her full play, and enables
her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.
--Addison.

  1. "Our investment banker felt the price should be increased to enable it to render a fairness opinion," said James E. Buckman, Days Inns executive vice president and general counsel.
  2. The company said it undertook the plan to "enable the stockholders to better realize the full potential value" of the company's shares, which management feels are undervalued in the marketplace.
  3. These accounts enable employees to set aside up to $5,000 per family each year to pay for the cost of pre-school/after-school care for children through age 12, day camp and care of an elderly dependent.
  4. The bill to enable enlargement of the European Union to include Austria, Norway, Finland and Sweden gained its third reading without a vote in the Commons last night.
  5. "If South African loans were rescheduled for say only one year at a time, that would enable us to see how much progress is made in the reform program.
  6. The divestiture also would enable Hospital Corp. to lop two layers of operating management, according to Victor L. Campbell, vice president, investor relations.
  7. AT&T has also designed network processors that would enable phone companies and other service providers such as Huntington Bank and travel agencies to extend services accessible by SmartPhone to their customers.
  8. Bank of New York had hoped that a victory in the proxy fight would enable it to remove Irving's anti-takeover measure and merge the two banks.
  9. The alliance will enable the companies to provide food services to airlines on a worldwide basis.
  10. Dow Jones & Co. Inc. said Tuesday it is introducing an interactive 900-number telephone service that will enable callers to get stock quotes, business and financial news, sports reports and weather conditions.
  11. Equity said that the sale will enable it to continue paying $619,000 of quarterly dividends on its preferred shares, and that it increases the likelihood it may pay dividends on its common shares.
  12. The Chicago Board Options Exchange proposed trading a hybrid stock-index option that would enable institutional investors to buy a so-called basket of 100 stocks with a single purchase.
  13. Transporting Doe and 100 soldiers to Grand Jeddah effectively would enable the president to launch his own campaign against the rebels.
  14. Shareholders of Shoney's Inc. on Thursday approved a $730 million recapitalization plan, which management says will enable the chain of family restaurants to strengthen its business without expanding.
  15. "The return of Mrs. Marcos would enable her to mobilize the underground network of the Marcos dictatorship which is designed to overthrow this government and endanger our democratic gains and economic momentum," Mrs. Aquino said.
  16. They are intended to enable schools to broaden their curriculum, and are used by the government as a reason for not reforming England's extraordinarily narrow A-level curriculum.
  17. Also being considered by the working group is the inexpensive transfer of technology and resources to developing countries to enable them to cut their greenhouse-gas pollution.
  18. The current account deficit was expected to grow to ADollars 18bn from ADollars 15.4bn. Mr Dawkins said the budget established a four-year framework which would enable interest rates and inflation to remain low.
  19. France, where 2.2 million farmers produce much of the community's agriculture exports, has balked at any move to snip export aids, which enable the Europeans to sell high-priced goods on the world markets.
  20. And I'm hopeful that we will be able to come forward with such an agreement that will enable me to do that.
  21. So to avert ceding further control to the cable group, the company needs an infusion that would enable it to reduce and restructure its current $1.4 billion debt load.
  22. Now, though, new technology may enable dealers to shave costs.
  23. Both bills would enable commercial banks and insurance companies as well as Farm Credit System banks to pool farm loans and sell them as securities on the so-called Farmer Mac market, just as home mortgages are sold on a secondary market.
  24. That could enable Gorbachev to take an even firmer grip on power by assuming a stronger presidency while retaining the party leadership.
  25. The high interest rates were offered to finance Mexican development, based on the belief that Mexico's rich oil reserves would enable the country to repay the investors.
  26. The disposal will enable Harland Simon to reduce borrowings and concentrate on its main activities, electronic and electrical engineering.
  27. Proponents of the new district say their bill will encourage and enable white parents outside the district to transfer students to the schools.
  28. The move would enable President Bush to say that the controversial Scowcroft visit and Bush's easing of other sanctions against China paid off.
  29. "Mike demonstrates that hard work, determination and perseverance can enable one to overcome any obstacles," said Arthur Thomas, president of the predominantly black university.
  30. Last fall, the Helmsleys' lawyer, Gerald Feffer, claimed that the false invoices were used by Turco and Licari "to enable them to steal blindly from the Helmsleys.
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