renovate

英 [ˈrenəveɪt]

美 [ˈrenəveɪt]

v.  修复; 翻新; 重新粉刷

过去分词：renovated　现在分词：renovating　过去式：renovated　第三人称单数：renovates　

考研TOEFLGRETEM8

Collins.1 / BNC.11515 / COCA.8620

牛津词典

verb

• 修复；翻新；重新粉刷
  to repair and paint an old building, a piece of furniture, etc. so that it is in good condition again

柯林斯词典

• VERB 修复;改造;翻新
  If someonerenovatesan old building, they repair and improve it and get it back into good condition.
  1. The couple spent thousands renovating the house...
     这对夫妇花了几千元来翻新房子。
  2. She lives in a large, renovated farmhouse.
     她住在一个宽敞的翻新过的农舍里。

英英释义

verb

• give new life or energy to
  1. A hot soup will revive me
  2. This will renovate my spirits
  3. This treatment repaired my health
  Synonym:animaterecreatereanimatereviverepairquickenvivifyrevivify
• make brighter and prettier
  1. we refurbished the guest wing
  2. My wife wants us to renovate
  Synonym:refurbishfreshen up
• restore to a previous or better condition
  1. They renovated the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
  Synonym:restitute

双语例句

• If you say you're very poor, they'll renovate your whole house.
  如果你跟他们说你很穷，他们会免费帮你粉刷房子。
• Renovate defective subgrade sections and build new drainage works;
  对病害路基地段进行整治和新修排水工程；
• These workers around are just doing their utmost to renovate this century-old temple.
  你看周围的这些工人们他们正在抓紧时间修缮这百年古庙呢。
• The couple spent thousands renovating the house
  这对夫妇花了几千元来翻新房子。
• In order to renovate the house, someone in Japan tore open the wall.
  在以翻新房子，有人在日本公开撕毁墙上。
• It is time to renovate the nest.
  正是整修窝巢的时候。
• The Mesches family turned to interior designer Melissa Broffman to renovate the kitchen, breakfast and family rooms;
  Mesches家让室内设计师梅丽莎•博若夫曼来装修厨房，早餐间和家庭间；
• It will be practical significance that we learn successful experience which using ecological landscape design method to renovate and update abandoned industrial land from Western countries.
  学习和借鉴西方国家废弃地改造的成功经验，运用生态与景观设计的方法对工业废弃地进行改造和更新，具有现实意义。
• Abstract protect through Zhongshan road, city of quanzhou, and successful example that renovate, is it summarize historical cultural city historical protection experience of renovation of block to explore, hove offered helpful reference for protecting and renovating the historical block better.
  摘要通过泉州市中山路保护与整治的成功范例，探索总结了历史文化名城中历史街区的保护、整治的经验，为进一步更好地保护与整治历史街区提供了有带的借鉴。
• We purchase your technology chiefly in order to renovate our old equipment.
  我们购买你们的技术，主要是为了改造我们的旧设备。