Whetted

例句:

• Nothing in her cherished affection in me, made me better, gentler; she only stirred my brain and whetted my acuteness. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Almost daily he whetted his keen knife and scraped and whittled at his young beard to eradicate this degrading emblem of apehood. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• She felt as if her senses were being whetted on some fine grindstone, that was keen as flame. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• I knew the steely ire I had whetted. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• When the task was done, Mr Boffin, with his appetite for Misers whetted instead of satiated, began to look out again. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.

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