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

• She lives in a large, renovated farmhouse.
  她住在一个宽敞的翻新过的农舍里。
• 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；
• When you want to renovate this cupboard, you will need a number of specific tools.
  你修理碗柜时，会需要很多小工具。
• To cope with huge Expo crowds, the city has invested heavily in traffic infrastructure to dig new Metro lines and tunnels, expand roads and renovate key facilities.
  为解决交通问题，上海在交通设施下了大工夫，开辟了新的地铁线和隧道线，加宽了道路，改造了关键设施。
• 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。
• In Orange County, California, they'll renovate homes for our veterans.
  在橙乡加利福尼亚，他们将为老兵们修缮房屋。
• 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。
• 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。
• If it isn't, why do they renovate the watchtower?
  要不然，为什么他们要修复了望塔？
• It was the pond that discharged the life waste water in the nearby inhabited region originally, in order to make a decision to renovate this location, have implemented overall and systematic renovation first.
  原来是附近居住区排放生活废水的水塘，为下决心整治该地段，先实施了全面系统的整治。