enable

1. V-T If someone or something enables you to do a particular thing, they give you the opportunity to do it. 使能夠

The new test should enable doctors to detect the disease early. 新的檢驗(yàn)使醫(yī)生能在早期發(fā)現(xiàn)該種疾病。

2. V-T To enable something to happen means to make it possible for it to happen. 使成為可能

The hot sun enables the grapes to reach optimum ripeness. 炙熱的陽光使葡萄能達(dá)到最佳成熟狀態(tài)。

3. V-T To enable someone to do something means to give them permission or the right to do it. 允許

...legislation which enables young people to do a form of alternative service. …允許年輕人通過一種替代性服務(wù)來服刑的立法。