Strengthen
['streŋθ(ə)n;-ŋkθ(ə)n] or ['strɛŋθn]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) gain strength; 'His body strengthened'.
(verb.) make strong or stronger; 'This exercise will strengthen your upper body'; 'strengthen the relations between the two countries'.
格里塔手打--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To make strong or stronger; to add strength to; as, to strengthen a limb, a bridge, an army; to strengthen an obligation; to strengthen authority.
(v. t.) To animate; to encourage; to fix in resolution.
(v. i.) To grow strong or stronger.
整理:奥拉
同義詞及近義詞:
v. a. [1]. Fortify, brace, harden, steel, nerve, make strong, make stronger, give strength to, add strength to.[2]. Intensify, make more intense.[3]. Invigorate, animate, impart health to.[4]. Confirm, corroborate, establish, justify, sustain, support.
v. n. Grow strong.
贝蒂整理
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Confirm, establish, fix, corroborate, secure, invigorate, fortify,{[incri-Hso]?}
ANT:Weaken, disestablish, shake, loosen, sap, undermine, debilitate, diminish
錄入:梅利特
例句/造句/用法:
- It is easy to see, that this property must strengthen the child's relation to the father, and weaken that to the mother. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- The big men from Machiavelli through Rousseau to Karl Marx brought history, logic, science and philosophy to prop up and strengthen their deepest desires. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- While the benefits derived were not directly pecuniary in their nature, they were such as tended to strengthen commercially the position of the rightful owners of the patents. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- On the 12th I learned that Lee had sent twenty pieces of artillery, two divisions of infantry and a considerable cavalry force to strengthen Early. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- When would the days begin of that active wifely devotion which was to strengthen her husband's life and exalt her own? 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Increase me in that wisdom which discovers my truest interest: Strengthen my resolution to perform what that wisdom dictates! 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- It is his duty to strengthen and reduce and otherwise manipulate the plates so that they will, when finally printed, have the desired result. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Miss Bates's powerful, argumentative mind might have strengthened yours. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- And the rays were hastening in in thin lines of light, to return to the strengthened moon, that shook upon the water in triumphant reassumption. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Another circumstance strengthened and confirmed these feelings. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- The change in her, strengthened the cherub's interest in number four, and he said quietly: 'May not be so, my dear? 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- And it is impossible to tell when the habit thus strengthened may have a direct and perceptible influence on our association with others. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Then, as usual, she felt ashamed of her selfish thoughts and prayed inwardly to be strengthened to do her duty. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Mr. Moore haunted his mill, his mill-yard, his dye-house, and his warehouse till the sickly dawn strengthened into day. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- A departure was early made in the matter of strengthening the ribs of oak to better meet the strains from the rough seas. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- The time, however, was spent in strengthening the intrenchments and making our position generally more secure against a sudden attack. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Electricity can have no greater mission than improving, strengthening and upbuilding good homes. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Whatever they could prove (which is usually anything you like), they proved there, in an army constantly strengthening by the arrival of new recruits. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- She feared it was a strengthening regard. 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- I should like him to tell me how I could bear up at Fair time, if I didn't take strengthening medicine for a month beforehand. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- You've much need, sir, I'm sure, said Mrs. Abel, and to take something more strengthening than what you've done. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Because it strengthens a suspicion I felt when you gave me the letter to read. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Tuning forks do not produce strong tones unless mounted on hollow wooden boxes (Fig. 175), whose size and shape are so adjusted that resonance occurs and strengthens the sound. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- Time strengthens him in all possibility as much as it does you. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- When a human being talks or sings, the air within the mouth cavity is thrown into sympathetic vibration and strengthens the otherwise feeble tone of the speaker. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- Custom also, or acquaintance facilitates the entrance, and strengthens the conception of any object. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- It strengthens the disease, said the Rector's wife, much too well-born not to be an amateur in medicine. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- The transition from a present impression, always enlivens and strengthens any idea. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
編輯:卡罗尔