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n. 改革，改良；改正
vt. 改革，革新；重新组成
vi. 重组；改过
adj. 改革的；改革教会的

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词态变化

复数: reforms;第三人称单数: reforms;过去式: reformed;过去分词: reformed;现在分词: reforming;形容词: reformed;

中文词源

reform 改革，改正

re-,再，重新，form,形状。引申词义改革，改正。

英英释意

1. a change for the better as a result of correcting abuses;: "justice was for sale before the reform of the law courts"

2. a campaign aimed to correct abuses or malpractices;: "the reforms he proposed were too radical for the politicians"

3. self-improvement in behavior or morals by abandoning some vice;: "the family rejoiced in the drunkard's reform"

英文词源

reform (v.): c. 1300, "to convert into another and better form," from Old French reformer "rebuild, reconstruct, recreate" (12c.), from Latin reformare "to form again, change, transform, alter," from re- "again" (see re-) + formare "to form" (see form (n.)). Intransitive sense from 1580s.

Meaning "to bring (a person) away from an evil course of life" is recorded from early 15c.; of governments, institutions, etc., from early 15c. Related: Reformed; reforming. Reformed churches (1580s) usually are Calvinist as opposed to Lutheran. Reformed Judaism (1843) is a movement initiated in Germany by Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786). Reform school is attested from 1859.
reform (n.): "any proceeding which brings back a better order of things," 1660s, from reform (v.) and in some uses from French réforme. As a branch of Judaism from 1843.

同义词辨析

reform, transform

这两个动词均含"改革，改变，改造"之意。

reform：指去恶扬善、弃旧图新，使变得完美，多用于社会、政治、经济方面，如体制、法律、机构等的改革。

transform：指既改变外部形体，又改变内部性质或功能。

考试真题

To create opportunities for criminals to reform themselves.

It is harder to predict how Mr Obama's proposed reforms to the failing health-care system will turn out.

interested in political and economic reforms

When the health insurance industry was still cooperating in reform efforts, its trade group offered to provide standardized forms for automated processing.

They need to know if reform will help solve the problem.

They indicate the future direction of media reform.

The good news is that a bill just approved by the House and a bill approved by the Senate Finance Committee would implement or test many reforms that should help slow the rise in medical costs over the long term.

The Senate bill would create an independent commission to monitor the pilot programs and recommend changes in Medicare's payment policies to urge providers to adopt reforms that work.

That's why school reform is so critical.

Assist the city government in reforming schools.

Timely reform of government at all levels.

However, once China began embracing free-market reforms in the 1980s, followed by India in the 1990s, both countries achieved rapid growth.

That conclusion was reinforced by another finding: that their opposition appeared to soften when that fiscal burden decreased, as occurred with welfare reform in the 1990s, which curbed immigrants' access to certain benefits.

Many Americans came to believe that scientific certainty could not only solve scientific problems, but also reform politics, government, and business.

One reason why pension and health care reforms are slow in coming is that politicians are afraid of losing votes in the next election.

the proposed reforms will affect too many people's interests

The 28 existence of such ideals, without the tempering of the reality of a job or profession, rapidly leads adolescents to become 29 intolerant of the non-idealistic world and to press for reform in a characteristically adolescent way.

More efforts, as reported, will be made in the years ahead to accelerate the supply-side structural reform.

Some schools will have to make adjustments in agreement with the national soccer reform.

We urge congress to increase farmland conservation, as we push for immigration reform.

The subtle and intelligent little book The Marketplace of Ideas: Reform and Resistance in the American University should be read by every student thinking of applying to take a doctoral degree.

The key to reforming higher education, concludes Mr.

Reform has been vigorously opposed, perhaps most egregiously in education, where charter schools, academies and merit pay all faced drawn-out battles.

Yet its report may well set back reform by obscuring the depth and breadth of the challenge that Congress asked it to illuminate.

Reforming the system would help both lawyers and their customers.

It is as though 20 years of ever-tougher reforms of the job search and benefit administration system never happened.

The Conservatives’ planning reform explicitly gives rural development priority over conservation, even authorising “off-plan” building where local people might object.

Upcoming reforms might bring the price to a more reasonable level.

This is why repeated attempts at reform legislation have failed in recent years, leaving the Postal Service unable to pay its bills except by deferring vital modernization.

If it clears the House, this measure would still have to get through the Senate where someone is bound to point out that it amounts to the bare, bare minimum necessary to keep the Postal Service afloat, not comprehensive reform.

If it clears the House, this measure would still have to get through the Senate-where someone is bound to point out that it amounts to the bare, bare minimum necessary to keep the Postal Service afloat, not comprehensive reform.

Last year a federal task-force urged reform for patents related to genetic tests.

Reform has been vigorously opposed, perhaps most notoriously in education, where charter schools, academies and merit pay all faced drawn-out battles.

The Conservatives' planning reform explicitly gives rural development priority over conservation, even authorising "off-plan" building where local people might object.

实用场景例句

proposals to reform the social security system: 改革社会保障体制的建议

The law needs to be reformed.: 法律需要进行改革。

She thought she could reform him.: 她觉得她可以使他洗心革面。

He has promised to reform.: 他许诺要改过自新。

a reformed character: 改过自新的人

a government committed to reform: 致力于改革的政府

economic/electoral/constitutional, etc. reform: 经济、选举、宪法等改革

the reform of the educational system: 教育体制的改革

reforms in education: 教育改革

far-reaching/major/sweeping reforms: 意义深远的 / 重大的 / 彻底的变革

The party embarked on a programme of economic reform...: 这个党开始进行经济改革。

He has urged reform of the welfare system...: 他极力主张进行福利制度改革。

...his plans to reform the country's economy...: 他的国家经济改革计划

A reformed party would have to win the approval of the people.: 一个革新的政党需要赢得人民的认可。

When his court case was coming up, James promised to reform...: 他的案子即将开审的时候，詹姆斯保证会改过自新。

We will try to reform him within the community.: 我们将尽力在社区内部对他进行改造。

The People's Liberation Army, so long outnumbered , has gained numerical superiority.: 人民解放军在数量上由长期的劣势转入了优势.

All their efforts at reform have been set back.: 他们所有的改革努力都遭受到挫折.

Salvation lay in political reform.: 解救办法在于政治改革.

Our educational reform was steadily led onto the correct path.: 我们的教学改革慢慢上轨道了.

It is successful for us to research on the reform of farm tools.: 我们对农具改进的研究取得了成功.

Our service is obsolete, requiring root and branch reform.: 我们的服务业已过时, 需要彻底改革.

They decided to reform social abuses.: 他们决定改革社会陋习.

We should try to reform criminals through labour rather than punish them.: 我们应该尽量通过劳动改造罪犯,而不是惩罚他们.

I am not opposed to reform.: 我不反对改革.

Politically, she is a staunch opponent of reform.: 在政治上, 她是坚决反对改革的.

The government will direct the additional taxes to the educational reform.: 政府把这些附加税收用于教育改革.

Provided we do all this, we shall assuredly succeed in our reform.: 只要我们做到这一切, 改革就一定能成功.

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