sharpen
v. (使)提高,改善; 加強,加重; (使)變得鋒利/清晰; (使聲音)變得尖銳
If your senses, understanding, or skills sharpen or are sharpened, you become better at noticing things, thinking, or doing something.
Her gaze sharpened, as if she had seen something unusual...
她眼睛一亮,彷彿看見了什麼不尋常的事情。
You can sharpen your skills with rehearsal.
排練可以讓技巧更加純熟。
If you sharpen an object, you make its edge very thin or you make its end pointed.
He started to sharpen his knife.
他開始磨刀。
...sharpened pencils.
削尖的鉛筆
If disagreements or differences between people sharpen, or if they are sharpened, they become bigger or more important.
With urbanisation the antagonism between rich and poor sharpened...
伴隨著城市化的推進,貧富間的對立情緒也加劇了。
The case of Harris has sharpened the debate over capital punishment.
哈里斯案激化了人們對死刑的爭論。
1. make sharp or sharper;
2. make sharp or sharper;
3. become sharp or sharper;
4. put (an image) into focus;
5. make (images or sounds) sharp or sharper
6. raise the pitch of (musical notes)
7. give a point to;
8. make (one's senses) more acute;
He'll need to sharpen his brain a bit if he hopes to get on in business.
如果他想下海經商,他還得頭腦更精明些.
A workman must sharpen his tools if he is to do his work well.
工欲善其事,必先利其器.
Photoshop Elements provides many different ways to sharpen an image.
PhotoshopElements提供了很多不同的方法來銳化一張圖片.
My pencil doesn't write well; I must sharpen it.
我的鉛筆不好使; 我必須把它削尖.
Debates sharpen one's wits.
辯論增長才智.