Provide

(verb.) take measures in preparation for; 'provide for the proper care of the passengers on the cruise ship'.

(verb.) 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'.

(verb.) give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance; 'The hostess provided lunch for all the guests'.

(verb.) 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'.

校对:朗达

• I am satisfied that Mr. and Mrs. Micawber could not have enjoyed the feast more, if they had sold a bed to provide it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• To provide a metal which should be at once stronger and safer than any which had been used before. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• The only person I know who exactly answers your description, and for whom as a poor deserted orphan it would be a charity to provide, is in Paris. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• The case, however, is different when an animal, during any part of its embryonic career, is active, and has to provide for itself. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• The broad problem which he set himself was to provide handsome and practically indestructible detached houses, which could be taken by wage-earners at very moderate monthly rentals. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• In order to provide against vibration I was obliged to make the frame of the machine much heavier than I first intended. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The first office of the social organ we call the school is to provide a simplified environment. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• She had provided a plentiful dinner for them; she wished she could know that they had been allowed to eat it. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• With his usual thoughtfulness, he had provided for her independence in this situation. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• This, rising above the water, and provided with reflecting lenses, enabled the steersman to discover the surface conditions and see any near vessel or other object. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Carriages and horses were provided for all; captains and under officers chosen, and the whole assemblage wisely organized. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• In a generation or two, education, emigration, improvements in agriculture and manufactures, may have provided the solution. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• For all who love me in short; for I would make all happy if I could, provided they don't grow too pathetic. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• It provided by a bill for a meeting of Parliament at least once in three years, whether the King summoned it or no. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Society provides a remedy for these three inconveniences. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• Hence it provides a further push to social progress. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Monsieur has seen me reading them a hundred times, and knows I have not so many recreations as to undervalue those he provides. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• He provides the pitch, and I handle it, and it sticks to me. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• A great rascal provides for his wife and family. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• He often provides also for himself. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• And how he provides now for an old woman who nursed his mother, and never tells anyone, but is just as generous and patient and good as he can be. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• The work done by a boy who raises a 5-pound knapsack to his shoulder would be 5x4, or 20, providing his shoulders were 4 feet from the ground. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• But its use had been growing; it was providing a fluid medium for trade and enterprise, and changing economic conditions profoundly. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• If I, as a honest tradesman, succeed in providing a jinte of meat or two, none of your not touching of it, and sticking to bread. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• By connecting them in series this potential is doubled, thus providing a main circuit (P and N) of 220 volts. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• After watching over and providing for their safety, her second care was to hide from me her anguish and tears. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• I'll tell you something, returned the sergeant; I suspect that stuff's of your providing. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• By this statute, the necessity of providing for their own poor was indispensably imposed upon every parish. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.

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