Widen
['waɪd(ə)n] or ['waɪdn]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) become broader or wider or more extensive; 'The road widened'.
(verb.) make wider; 'widen the road'.
(verb.) extend in scope or range or area; 'The law was extended to all citizens'; 'widen the range of applications'; 'broaden your horizon'; 'Extend your backyard'.
手打:雷克斯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To make wide or wider; to extend in breadth; to increase the width of; as, to widen a field; to widen a breach; to widen a stocking.
(v. i.) To grow wide or wider; to enlarge; to spread; to extend.
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例句/造句/用法:
- But one must not expect every thing; though I suppose it would be no difficult matter to widen them. 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- Shortly afterwards, his mouth began to widen again. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- And after five years Death again came to widen his path, by taking away his wife. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- To widen the market, and to narrow the competition, is always the interest of the dealers. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- I set him down (as well as it was possible to judge) for a lawyer's clerk, and stopped at once to widen the distance between us. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- It widened as she turned to go, and no one advanced to fill it up. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- The latter's eyes widened charmingly and she broke into a light laugh. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- The desolate feeling with which I went abroad, deepened and widened hourly. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- Her lips trembled and her gaze widened with tears. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- The oranges continue along these rollers until the space between the rollers has widened to the point where each particular size drops into a labeled bin. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- The lake widened and across it on the shore at the foot of the mountains on the other side we saw a few lights that should be Luino. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- The green lane widened into a little circle of grass, where there was a small trickle of water at the bottom of a sloping bank. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Entering as a factor into an activity pursued for its own sake--whether as a means or as a widening of the content of the aim--it is informing. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Within two years this man completed and made that art available in its essential, fundamental facts, which remain unchanged after thirty years of rapid improvement and widening application. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- She glanced up, and he saw by her widening eyes that there must be something strange in his own. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- Along with that came the widening breach between himself and his mother. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- Ingenious arrangements generally exist for widening or narrowing the cultivator and for throwing the soil from the centre of the furrow to opposite sides and against the plant. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Dredges were put to work immediately widening the channel at Cucaracha slide in Gaillard Cut, so that within a short time the canal was ready for use throughout its entire length. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- This streak of bitterness came from a plenteous source, and kept widening in the current of his thought as he neared Lowick Gate. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- But it does not lead to new perceptions of bearings and connections; it limits rather than widens the meaning-horizon. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- It widens always. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- In some parts it widens into a morass. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- While the river runs in a narrow, confined channel in the upper hilly country, only a small surface is exposed; a greater as the river widens. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- Classes, genera, and species of animals appear and disappear, but the range widens. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- But as civilization advances, the gap between the capacities of the young and the concerns of adults widens. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- But if one examines closely into one or two differences, the gap widens. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
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