... mend：动词用，修补，改善 ─ mend the matter改善事态 ─ mend the relationship 改善修补双方关系 ...
双语例句
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You won't mendthematter by being so impolite.
你这么无礼是于事无补的。
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But though to visit the SINS of the fathers upon the children may be a morality good enough for divinities, it is scorned by average human nature; and it therefore does not mendthematter.