reform

英 [rɪ'fɔːm] 美[rɪ'fɔrm]

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;

reform 改革，改正

re-,再，重新，form,形状。引申词义改革，改正。

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.

1. The government wanted to reform the institutions, to shake up the country.: 政府想要实施机构改革，整顿国家。

2. The finance minister will continue to mastermind Poland's economic reform.: 财政部长将继续策划波兰的经济改革。

3. The government took another step on the road to political reform.: 政府在实现政治改革的路上又迈进了一步。

4. He was soon disillusioned by the government's timidity on social reform.: 他不久就因政府在进行社会改革时缩手缩脚而不抱幻想了。

5. Economic reform will continue to be painful and ineffective.: 经济改革仍将举步维艰，毫无成效。