Sharpen
['ʃɑːp(ə)n] or ['ʃɑrpən]
解释:
(verb.) become sharp or sharper; 'The debate sharpened'.
(verb.) make crisp or more crisp and precise; 'We had to sharpen our arguments'.
(verb.) make (one's senses) more acute; 'This drug will sharpen your vision'.
(verb.) give a point to; 'The candles are tapered'.
(verb.) raise the pitch of (musical notes).
(verb.) make sharp or sharper; 'sharpen the knives'.
(verb.) make (images or sounds) sharp or sharper.
弗恩手打--From WordNet
解释:
(a.) To make sharp.
(a.) To give a keen edge or fine point to; to make sharper; as, to sharpen an ax, or the teeth of a saw.
(a.) To render more quick or acute in perception; to make more ready or ingenious.
(a.) To make more eager; as, to sharpen men's desires.
(a.) To make more pungent and intense; as, to sharpen a pain or disease.
(a.) To make biting, sarcastic, or severe.
(a.) To render more shrill or piercing.
(a.) To make more tart or acid; to make sour; as, the rays of the sun sharpen vinegar.
(a.) To raise, as a sound, by means of a sharp; to apply a sharp to.
(v. i.) To grow or become sharp.
录入:纳塔莉亚
同义词及近义词:
v. a. [1]. Edge, give an edge to, make keen.[2]. Make eager.[3]. Sharp, make shrill.[4]. Intensify, make more intense.
达琳录入
例句:
- Away, seek them out instantly--and hark thee, if a byzant or two will sharpen their memory, let them not be wanting. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- The aborigines knew how to sharpen bones of the animals they killed to scrape, clean, soften or roughen their skins. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- Well, he wrote so furiously that he broke his pencil, and had, as you observe, to sharpen it again. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
- This is an amusement to sharpen the intellect; it has a sting--it has what we call satire, and wit without indecency. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- Formerly augers and similar boring tools had merely a curved sharpened end and a concavity to hold the chips, and the whole tool had to be withdrawn to empty the chips. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- Her whole nature seemed sharpened and intensified into a pure dart of hate. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- We left the mules, sharpened our finger-nails, and began the ascent I have been writing about so long, at twenty minutes to six in the morning. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- I have discovered, whispering mysteriously, that her natural cruelty is sharpened by a jealous fear of their regaining their liberty. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- The head was then soldered and the other end of the pin filed and sharpened. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- They do not plow with a sharpened stick, nor yet with a three-cornered block of wood that merely scratches the top of the ground. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- It was impossible to doubt him; there was truth in every one of its thin and sharpened lineaments. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
- Of course you'll say so,' replied Fledgeby, sharpening, the moment his interest was touched by another. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- She has worn herself away by constant sharpening. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- But all the while another self was sharpening her to vigilance, whispering the terrified warning that every word and gesture must be measured. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- Trade sharpens wer wits; and them that's mechanics like me is forced to think. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- She brings everything to a grindstone,' said Steerforth, and sharpens it, as she has sharpened her own face and figure these years past. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- But come, fill a flagon, for it will crave some time to tune the harp; and nought pitches the voice and sharpens the ear like a cup of wine. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
克拉拉录入