facilitate

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To make easy or easier.
    — Features such as trackless doors, mercury-type door interlocks, roof-mounted door fault indicator lights, rubber window glazing, improved retractable shoegear and a modified electro-pneumatic brake system designed to facilitate maintenance and improve reliability, which have proved their worth on the prototype trains, are continued in the new stock.
  2. To help bring about.
    — But while she was pursuing this thought the good genius of Sophia, or that which presided over the integrity of Mrs Honour, or perhaps mere chance, sent an accident in her way, which at once preserved her fidelity, and even facilitated the intended business.
  3. To preside over (a meeting, a seminar).

词形变化

facilitates present,singular,third-person facilitating participle,present facilitated participle,past facilitated past

词汇关系

衍生词
cofacilitate disfacilitate nonfacilitating refacilitate
相关词
facile facilitation facilitative facilitator facilitatory facility

词源

Anglicisation of French faciliter (“facilitate”) through -ate (verb-forming suffix), ultimately from Latin facilis.
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