whet
vt. (在石頭上)磨(刀、斧等); 引起,刺激(食慾、慾望、興趣等)
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錄也可以激起顧客購買的慾望。
...lectures he hopes might whet the appetite and keep students' enthusiasm.
他希望能激發學生們的興趣,保持他們的熱情的講座
1. make keen or more acute;
2. sharpen by rubbing, as on a whetstone
Your reply quite overdue whet prevent you.
你方回在電太遲,是何原因.
Bill doesn't give a hoot whet IT he passes his examination or not.
比爾對做卷子題目測考題卷及格還得不及格一點都不在乎.
Read what he have to say and see whet IT you agree.
讀一讀他的觀點,看看你也許同意.
He may whet his knife on the threshold of the Fleet.
監牢門口把刀磨.
If ox falls, whet your knife.
牛一倒, 快磨刀;人遭難,眾人踩.