Deepen
['diːp(ə)n] or ['dipən]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) become deeper in tone; 'His voice began to change when he was 12 years old'; 'Her voice deepened when she whispered the password'.
(verb.) make deeper; 'They deepened the lake so that bigger pleasure boats could use it'.
詹尼弗編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To make deep or deeper; to increase the depth of; to sink lower; as, to deepen a well or a channel.
(v. t.) To make darker or more intense; to darken; as, the event deepened the prevailing gloom.
(v. t.) To make more poignant or affecting; to increase in degree; as, to deepen grief or sorrow.
(v. t.) To make more grave or low in tone; as, to deepen the tones of an organ.
(v. i.) To become deeper; as, the water deepens at every cast of the lead; the plot deepens.
錄入:玛格
同義詞及近義詞：
v. a. [1]. Make deeper, increase the depth of.[2]. Make darker, make more intense.[3]. Reduce to a lower tone, make more grave.
v. n. Grow deeper, become deeper.
編輯:鲁弗斯
例句/造句/用法:
- These jetties so concentrated the flow of waters into a narrow channel as to cause its increased velocity to wash out the mud and silt and deepen the channel. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Did the cheque to Trenor explain the mystery or deepen it? 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- They all tend to deepen the impression upon my mind that the Cunninghams, father and son, had written this letter. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- He rose with a start, his ingenuous face looking as though it had been dipped in crimson: even the reddish tint in his beard seemed to deepen. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- Does it fit into his more direct acquaintance so as to increase its efficacy and deepen its meaning? 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- What Rosamond had written to him would probably deepen the painful impressions of the evening. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- We may note (1) The manner in which the objection of Adeimantus here, is designed to draw out and deepen the argument of Socrates. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- He sat looking at her, and did not rise to pay her any compliments, leaving that to others, now that his admiration was deepened. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- The desolate feeling with which I went abroad, deepened and widened hourly. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- Its eyes seemed to look down on her with a reproach that deepened as she looked. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- On the banks of the river Saone it was wet, depressing, solitary; and the night deepened fast. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Her loneliness deepened her desire. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- The expression in the forehead, which had so particularly attracted his notice, and which was now immovable, had deepened into one of pain and horror. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- As the wet twilight deepened, I stopped in a solitary bridle-path, which I had been pursuing an hour or more. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- The shadows were deepening, darkness was settling in. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- From the close of 1915 onwards Russia was a source of deepening anxiety to her Western allies. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- I felt compassion for him,' said Louisa, her colour deepening, 'and I wished to know what he was going to do, and wished to offer him assistance. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- And there was not only the actual debt; there was the certainty that in his present position he must go on deepening it. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- The seizure of the station with a fit of trembling, gradually deepening to a complaint of the heart, announced the train. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- But it is better than he expected after all, being no explosion of the mine below him or deepening of the pit into which he has fallen. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Later this was remedied, by deepening the channel and increasing the number of vessels suitable to its navigation. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- The colour of Mr. George's face rather deepens as he replies, Why no. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Literature refines, science deepens, various devices extend it. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- You observe that the scratch on that table is slight at one side, but deepens in the direction of the bedroom door. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- In the adults, as I was to learn quite soon, this color deepens to an olive green and is darker in the male than in the female. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
錄入:莫伊拉