re·ha·bil·i·tate
verb/ˌriːəˈbɪlɪteɪt/
/ˌriːəˈbɪlɪteɪt/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they rehabilitate | /ˌriːəˈbɪlɪteɪt/ /ˌriːəˈbɪlɪteɪt/ |
| he / she / it rehabilitates | /ˌriːəˈbɪlɪteɪts/ /ˌriːəˈbɪlɪteɪts/ |
| past simple rehabilitated | /ˌriːəˈbɪlɪteɪtɪd/ /ˌriːəˈbɪlɪteɪtɪd/ |
| past participle rehabilitated | /ˌriːəˈbɪlɪteɪtɪd/ /ˌriːəˈbɪlɪteɪtɪd/ |
| -ing form rehabilitating | /ˌriːəˈbɪlɪteɪtɪŋ/ /ˌriːəˈbɪlɪteɪtɪŋ/ |
- rehabilitate somebody to help somebody to return to a normal, healthy life after they have been in prison or very ill
帮助某人在入狱或病重后恢复正常、健康的生活 - We must do more to rehabilitate young offenders.
我们必须采取更多措施来改造青少年罪犯。 - efforts to treat and rehabilitate drug addicts
努力治疗和康复吸毒成瘾者
- We must do more to rehabilitate young offenders.
- rehabilitate somebody (as something) to begin to consider that somebody is good or acceptable after a long period during which they were considered bad or unacceptable
恢复…的名誉；给…平反昭雪 - He played a major role in rehabilitating Magritte as an artist.
他对恢复玛格里特艺术家的名誉起了重要的作用。
- He played a major role in rehabilitating Magritte as an artist.
- rehabilitate something to return a building or an area to its previous good condition
使（建筑物或地区）恢复原状；修复 - Billions of pounds are being spent on rehabilitating inner-city areas.
数十亿英镑被用于重建市中心地区。
- Billions of pounds are being spent on rehabilitating inner-city areas.
Word Originlate 16th cent. (earlier (late 15th cent.) as rehabilitation) (in the sense ‘restore to former privileges’): from medieval Latin rehabilitat-, from the verb rehabilitare (from re- and habilitate, from medieval Latin habilitat- ‘made able’, from the verb habilitare, from habilitas, from habilis ‘able’).