whet
vt. (在石头上)磨(刀、斧等); 引起,刺激(食欲、欲望、兴趣等)
If someone or something whets your appetite for a particular thing, they increase your desire to have it or know about it, especially by giving you an idea of what it is like.
A really good catalogue can also whet customers' appetites for merchandise.
一份真正好的商品目录也可以激起顾客购买的欲望。
...lectures he hopes might whet the appetite and keep students' enthusiasm.
他希望能激发学生们的兴趣,保持他们的热情的讲座
1. make keen or more acute;
2. sharpen by rubbing, as on a whetstone
Your reply quite overdue whet prevent you.
你方回在电太迟,是何原因.
Bill doesn't give a hoot whet IT he passes his examination or not.
比尔对做卷子题目测考题卷及格还得不及格一点都不在乎.
Read what he have to say and see whet IT you agree.
读一读他的观点,看看你也许同意.
He may whet his knife on the threshold of the Fleet.
监牢门口把刀磨.
If ox falls, whet your knife.
牛一倒, 快磨刀;人遭难,众人踩.