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小词详解 | enact
enact 英 [ɪˈnækt] 美 [ɪˈnækt]
Access to health care matters, too: the number of Americans whose cancers were diagnosed at the earliest possible opportunity went up after Obamacare was enacted.
能享受医保也很重要:奥巴马医改实施后,及早诊断出癌症的美国人数量上升了。
——《经济学人》But would a president who’s holding federal workers hostage in pursuit of a pointless wall be willing to enact a sensible stimulus?
但是,一个为了修建毫无意义的高墙而把联邦政府的工作人员当作人质的总统,会愿意实施一项明智的刺激计划吗?
——《纽约时报》
[动词] 将(法案或其他提议)制定成法律
It certainly makes no sense to enact more laws if we cannot, or do not, enforce the ones we have.
如果我们不能或不执行我们现有的法律,那么制定更多的法律当然毫无意义。
legislate: make or enact laws constitute: give legal or constitutional form to (an institution); establish by law ratify: sign or give formal consent to (a treaty, contract, or agreement), making it officially valid