enable

1. V-T If someone or something enables you to do a particular thing, they give you the opportunity to do it. 使能够

The new test should enable doctors to detect the disease early. 新的检验使医生能在早期发现该种疾病。

2. V-T To enable something to happen means to make it possible for it to happen. 使成为可能

The hot sun enables the grapes to reach optimum ripeness. 炙热的阳光使葡萄能达到最佳成熟状态。

3. V-T To enable someone to do something means to give them permission or the right to do it. 允许

...legislation which enables young people to do a form of alternative service. …允许年轻人通过一种替代性服务来服刑的立法。