redress
verb🔊/rɪˈdres/
🔊/rɪˈdres/
(formal)Verb Forms
Idioms | present simple I / you / we / they redress | 🔊/rɪˈdres/ 🔊/rɪˈdres/ |
| he / she / it redresses | 🔊/rɪˈdresɪz/ 🔊/rɪˈdresɪz/ |
| past simple redressed | 🔊/rɪˈdrest/ 🔊/rɪˈdrest/ |
| past participle redressed | 🔊/rɪˈdrest/ 🔊/rɪˈdrest/ |
| -ing form redressing | 🔊/rɪˈdresɪŋ/ 🔊/rɪˈdresɪŋ/ |
- redress something
to correct something that is unfair or wrong 纠正；矫正；改正 to redress an injustice 纠正不公
Extra ExamplesAttempts were made to redress some of the injustices of the previous regime. 作了一些尝试去纠正过去政权下不公平的事。 The king did little to redress the grievances of the people. 国王没有采取任何行动来纠正人民的不满。
Oxford Collocations DictionaryRedress is used with these nouns as the object:- balance
- grievance
- imbalance
- …
Word OriginMiddle English: the verb from Old French redresser; the noun via Anglo-Norman French redresse.
Idioms
redress the balance
to make a situation equal or fair again 恢复公平合理的情况；恢复平衡 For years poorer children have had to put up with a lower quality education, and now is the time to redress the balance. 多年来，较贫困的儿童不得不接受较差的教育，现在是扭转这一不公平状况的时候了。