provide for
If you provide for someone, you support them financially and make sure that they have the things that they need.
Elaine wouldn't let him provide for her.
伊莱恩不肯让他供养自己。
If you provide for something that might happen or that might need to be done, you make arrangements to deal with it.
Jim had provided for just such an emergency.
吉姆已经为这样的突发事件做好了准备。
provides , providing , provided
If you provide something that someone needs or wants, or if you provide them with it, you give it to them or make it available to them.
I'll be glad to provide a copy of this.
我很乐意提供一份副本。
They would not provide any details.
他们不肯提供任何细节。
They provided him with a car and driver.
他们为他提供了一辆汽车和一位司机。
The government was not in a position to provide them with food.
政府不能给他们提供食物。
If a law or agreement provides that something will happen, it states that it will happen.
The treaty provides that, by the end of the century, the United States must have removed its bases.
这项条约规定,到本世纪末,美国必须撤走其基地。