amendment
amendment 英 [əˈmendmənt] 美 [əˈmɛndmənt]
n. 修正案；改善；改正
名词复数:amendments
- An amendment is a change made to an original (usually a document or statement). It's meant to improve the original, but one could say the 21st Amendment (prohibition) did more to make Al Capone rich than to make Americans teetotalers.
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- n. 修正案；改善；改正
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1. They decided to tack an amendment to the bill.
他们决定在议案中附加一个修正案。
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2. The First Amendment, which also guarantees freedom of speech and assembly, was enacted in 1791, along with the other nine amendments that make up the Bill of Rights.
《第一修正案》同时也保障言论和集会自由。 该修正案于1791年制定，同时制定的法律还有构成《权利法案》的另外九项修正案。
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3. The Fourteenth Amendment – unlike the Bill of Rights – was specifically aimed at the states.
不同于《权利法案》的是，《第十四条修正案》专门针对州政府。
- amendment (n.) early 13c., "betterment, improvement;" c. 1300, of persons, "correction, reformation," from Old French amendement "rectification, correction; advancement, improvement," from amender (see amend). Sense expanded to include "correction of error in a legal process" (c. 1600) and "alteration of a writ or bill" to remove its faults (1690s).
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