详细释义
- vt. & vi. 提供,供给,供应 cause or arrange from (sb) to have or use (sth needed or useful); supply
- vt. 规定 state a special arrangement that must be fulfilled
英英释义
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give something useful or necessary to;
"We provided the room with an electrical heater"
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give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance;
"The hostess provided lunch for all the guests"
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determine (what is to happen in certain contingencies), especially by including a proviso condition or stipulation;
"The will provides that each child should receive half of the money"
"The Constitution provides for the right to free speech"
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mount or put up;
"put up a good fight"
"offer resistance"
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make a possibility or provide opportunity for; permit to be attainable or cause to remain;
"This leaves no room for improvement"
"The evidence allows only one conclusion"
"allow for mistakes"
"leave lots of time for the trip"
"This procedure provides for lots of leeway"
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supply means of subsistence; earn a living;
"He provides for his large family by working three jobs"
"Women nowadays not only take care of the household but also bring home the bacon"
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take measures in preparation for;
"provide for the proper care of the passengers on the cruise ship"
双语例句
- 1. Poland provide the opposition for the Scots' last warm-up match at home.
- 苏格兰队在国内最后一场热身赛的对手是波兰队。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. New ways to treat arthritis may provide an alternative to painkillers.
- 关节炎的新疗法可能是止痛药之外的另一种选择。
来自柯林斯例句
- 3. Nursing auxiliaries provide basic care, but are not qualified nurses.
- 助理护士只提供基本护理，不具备护士资格。
来自柯林斯例句
- 4. Light colours provide an effective backdrop for pictures or a mirror.
- 浅色是挂放图画或镜子很有效果的衬托。
来自柯林斯例句
- 5. The least his hotel could do is provide a little privacy.
- 他的酒店至少应该提供一点隐私保护。
来自柯林斯例句
- Sheep provide us with wool.
羊供给我们羊毛。 - The hotel provides a reservation of tickets for its residents.
这家旅馆为旅客提供订票服务。 - We have to provide for possible accidents.
我们要为可能发生的意外作些准备。 - The law provides that these ancient buildings must be preserved.
法律规定，这些古老的建筑应该保存。 - He was very poor because he'd to provide for five children.
他很穷,因为他要抚养五个孩子。
- The course is free but you have to provide your own books.
修读该课程是免费的,但你要自备课本。 - The trees provide shade.
这些树提供阴凉。 - Westminster Abbey towering in the distance there provides a fascinating view.
矗立在远处的威斯敏斯特大教堂构成了一道迷人的景色。 - Many hands provide great strength.
人多力量大。 - Let us hope his research will provide the evidence we need.
但愿他作的研究能提供我们所需要的证据。 - The agreement provides that the two sides shall meet twice a month.
协议规定,双方每月要开两次碰头会。 - This provided that the voter mark his ballot in a closed booth and drop it into a locked box.
这条规定,投票人在一间关着的投票站里填写他的选票,然后把选票投入到一只上锁的箱子里。 - It is incumbent on you to provide for your parents.
供养父母是你应尽的义务。 - Can you provide accommodation for thirty people?
你能为30个人提供住宿吗? - The painting provides us with one of the earliest examples of the use of perspective.
那幅画给我们提供了采用透视画法的最早的范例之一。 - They provided us food.
他们提供我们食物。 - Tom provided her a pretty hat.
汤姆给她准备了一顶漂亮的帽子。
用法讲解
- provide用作及物动词时,可表示“提供,供给,供应,装备”,后可接名词或代词作简单宾语; 还可接双宾语,常用介词for引出间接宾语,也可用介词with引出直接宾语,有时with可省略。
- provide还可表示法律、规章、协议等的“规定”,往往作为条件提出使之能按照某人的意愿或某种规则履行,后常接that引起的从句,从句中可以用shall, should, must, may, ought to等,用should, must, ought to时,语气较重,用may时,语气较轻,用shall时,指当前,语气一般,也可用虚拟语气。
- provide用作不及物动词时常与for, against 等介词搭配。
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provide作及物动词时，指“规定”，后可接that从句。值得注意的是从句中要用shall/should，不用will/would，偶尔可用虚拟现在式。
The contract provides that only the best materials shall be used.
合同规定说只允许用最好的材料。 -
provided可作连接词，原属于provide的过去分词， provided ...或provided that ...指“规定或以……作条件”。当用于正式英语中时，provided .../provided that ...可等同于“if...”。
I will go provided (that) you will go with me.
两句意思一样，但注意两者不能随便替换。What will happen if they see us?
句中的if不可以替换成provided。不过通常来说，用provided的场合，用if都是可以的。
- provide, equip, furnish, outfit, supply
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- 这组词都可表示“提供必要的条件”。其区别是：
- 1.equip指装备某种仪器设备; furnish指用家具将房间布置起来; supply指提供不足或缺乏的东西; provide指提供必需和有用的东西。
- 2.用于人时, outfit指衣物的配备, equip指各种专门的物件的配备。
- 3.supply常用于定期的多次的供应,而furnish常用于一次性的供应。
- 4.在涉及金钱时, provide往往意味着“免费供给”,而supply则一般不含此意。
- 5.furnish可接双宾语,而provide和supply则不可接双宾语。
- 6.provide和supply都要与with连用来说明所提供的物品,即provide〔supply〕 sb with sth 或provide〔supply〕 sth for sb; supply后的for可用to替代,而provide后的for不可用to替代。
- provide, afford, give, supply
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- 这四个词都有“给”“供给”“提供”的意思。其区别是：
- 1.afford指为一定的目的而“给”“提供”所需要的东西; give指无需偿还地把金钱、物品、时间、麻烦等有形或无形的东西“送给”“授予”“供给”某人; provide主要指为某人、某物或某事“提供”“供应”某物品,尤指生活必需品; supply指用物“供给”“供应”或“提供”给国家、群众、工厂、城市、市场等,以部队为对象时,往往只供给生活必需品,而不指武器。例如:
- Some trees afford resin. 有些树产树脂。
- I should like to give him a chance.我想给他一个机会。
- Now we supply power to nine-tenths of the city's homes.现在我们向这个城市十分之九的家庭提供电力。
- 2.afford后面可跟不定式或动名词,还常用在can, could, be able to后面表示“担负得起”某事物的费用、损失、后果等,以及“抽得出”时间、人力,其后可接双宾语,意思是“向某人提供某物”; provide后面可接for, with和against等介词; supply后可接介词to。例如:
- Our garden affords us fresh vegetables.我们的园子为我们提供新鲜蔬菜。
- More and more vegetables and fruit are supplied to the army.越来越多的蔬菜和水果供应部队。
- The programme aims to provide self-sufficiency for local needs.这项计划旨在使当地需要得以自足。
- 下面两句意思相同:
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- The bank promised to provide money for us.
- The bank promised to provide us with money.
- 银行答应给我们提供资金。
- supply，provide
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- 两者均可表示“供应；供给”，指对于缺乏或不足的事物进行补充或供给。
- supply常与to／for或with连用，其结构是：supply sth．to／for sb．或supply sb．with sth.
- provide常与for或with连用，其结构是：provide sth．for sb．或provide sb．with sth.
- provide against (v.+prep.)
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为…做好准备; 预防 take care for the future
provide against sthThey provided against the attack.
他们做好准备以防受攻击。
The government has to provide against a possible oil shortage in the coming months.
政府必须为未来几个月中可能出现的油荒做好准备。
It is wise to provide against emergency.
预防意外是明智的。
- provide for (v.+prep.)
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规定 arrange in advance
- provide a meal 提供一餐
- provide blankets 提供毯子
- provide education 提供教育
- provide employment 提供就业
- provide equipment 提供装备
- provide money 提供金钱
- provide support 提供支持
- provide vehicle 提供交通工具
- provide weapons 提供武器
- ill provide 供应差
- well provide 供应好,准备得很好
- provide abundantly 充裕地供给
- provide adequately 充分提供
- provide copiously 大量地提供
- provide duly 适当地准备
- provide expressly 迅速准备
- provide graciously 仁慈地提供
- provide handsomely 优厚地提供
- provide hospitably 殷勤地提供
- provide liberally 充分地提供,充分地准备
- provide properly 适当地提供
- provide specifically 专门提供
- provide suitably 适合提供
- provide against unemployment 防备失业
- provide for 抚养…,为…提供,为…准备
- provide for children 供养孩子
- provide for family 养家
- provide with 提供…给…
- provide sb with money 为某人提供钱款
