amends
noun🔊/əˈmendz/
🔊/əˈmendz/
Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French amendes ‘penalties, fine’, plural of amende ‘reparation’, from amender, based on Latin emendare, from e- (variant of ex-) ‘out of’ + menda ‘a fault’.
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make amends (to somebody) (for something/for doing something)
to do something for somebody in order to show that you are sorry for something wrong or unfair that you have done （因某事向某人）赔偿，补偿，赔不是；将功补（过） She tried to make amends for what she had said to her mother by buying her some flowers. 她试图通过买一些花来补偿她对母亲说的话。 The team is desperate to make amends for two successive defeats. 球队迫切希望连续两次失败。