superintend

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To oversee the work of others; to supervise.
    — Lady Marchmont had superintended her toilette, and it was the very triumph of exquisite taste; every thing about it seemed as fragile and delicate as herself.
  2. To administer the affairs of something or someone.
    — A posse of Dublin Metropolitan police superintended by the Chief Commissioner in person maintained order in the vast throng for whom the York Street brass and reed band whiled away the intervening time by admirably rendering on their blackdraped instruments the matchless melody endeared to us from the cradle by Speranza's plaintive muse.

词形变化

superintends present,singular,third-person superintending participle,present superintended participle,past superintended past

词汇关系

衍生词
superintender unsuperintended
相关词
superintendence

词源

Etymology tree
Ecclesiastical Latin superintendōbor.
English superintend
Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin superintendō.
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