sharpen
sharpen
英[ˈʃɑːpən]美[ˈʃɑːrpən]
v.（使）提高，改善，加强，加重，（使）变得锋利/清晰，（使声音）变得尖锐；
第三人称单数：sharpens;
过去式：sharpened;
过去分词：sharpened;
现在分词：sharpening;
例句
The training is designed to sharpen the fighter’s reflexes.这项训练是为了加快作战者的反应速度。
This exercise will help students sharpen up their reading skills.这个练习将帮助学生提高阅读能力。
She needs to sharpen up before next month’s competition.下个月比赛之前，她的水平需要提高一下。
When you sharpen a pencil, you make chips.你削铅笔时, 会削下许多碎屑。
Debates sharpen one's wits.辩论增长才智.
The training is designed to sharpen the fighter's reflexes.这项训练是为了加快作战者的反应速度.
She needs to sharpen up before next month's competition.下个月比赛之前,她的水平需要提高一下.
Gird your loins, sharpen your steel, you will soon be tested.系好你的盔甲, 磨利你的武器, 很快你的技巧就会得到检验.
Experimental results show that the method can enhance, sharpen , and denoise images.实验结果表明:该方法可以有效地实现对比度增强 、 噪声抑制和边缘保护.
Ms Rice is keen not to sharpen tensions ( ship - boardings will apparently be few ).赖斯女士不想加剧紧张*势 ( 很明显,船只运送的货物将会很少 ).
英语六级真题
State and federal governments could sharpen that focus everywhere by broadly publishing minority graduation rates.
出自-2011年6月阅读原文柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义
V-ERG
(感觉、理解)加强;(使)加深;(技巧)提高;(使)改善
If your senses, understanding, or skills sharpen or are sharpened, you become better at noticing things, thinking, or doing something.
例句
Her gaze sharpened, as if she had seen something unusual...她眼睛一亮，仿佛看见了什么不寻常的事情。You can sharpen your skills with rehearsal.排练可以让技巧更加纯熟。VERB
使变得锋利;削尖;磨快
If you sharpen an object, you make its edge very thin or you make its end pointed.
例句
He started to sharpen his knife.他开始磨刀。...sharpened pencils.削尖的铅笔V-ERG
(分歧、差异等)加剧;(使)加深;(使)加重
If disagreements or differences between people sharpen, or if they are sharpened, they become bigger or more important.
例句
With urbanisation the antagonism between rich and poor sharpened...伴随着城市化的推进，贫富间的对立情绪也加剧了。The case of Harris has sharpened the debate over capital punishment.哈里斯案激化了人们对死刑的争论。英汉词典释义
vt. & vi.
（使）变得锋利;削尖, 磨快
Knives can be sharpened by grinding them against a rough stone.刀能在一块粗石上磨快。(使)变得更好(或技术更高、更有效等)；提高某人(或事物)的水平(或技术、效率等)
She needs to sharpen up before next month’s competition.下个月比赛之前，她的水平需要提高一下。This exercise will help students sharpen up their reading skills.这个练习将帮助学生提高阅读能力。Discipline has sharpened them up.纪律使他们更有效率了。（使感觉或感情）加强，加重，变得更明显
使尖锐；使明朗
使尖锐；使明朗
（使）提高，改善
（使声音）变得尖锐，变得刺耳
（使感觉或感情）加强，加重，变得更明显
使尖锐；使明朗
使尖锐；使明朗
（使）提高，改善
（使声音）变得尖锐，变得刺耳
（使感觉或感情）加强，加重，变得更明显
使尖锐；使明朗
使尖锐；使明朗
（使）提高，改善
（使声音）变得尖锐，变得刺耳
（使感觉或感情）加强，加重，变得更明显
使尖锐；使明朗
使尖锐；使明朗
（使）提高，改善
（使声音）变得尖锐，变得刺耳
英英词典释义
Verb
1. make sharp or sharper;
"sharpen the knives"2. make sharp or sharper;
"We had to sharpen our arguments"3. become sharp or sharper;
"The debate sharpened"4. put (an image) into focus;
"Please focus the image; we cannot enjoy the movie"5. make (images or sounds) sharp or sharper
6. raise the pitch of (musical notes)
7. give a point to;
"The candles are tapered"8. make (one's senses) more acute;
"This drug will sharpen your vision"
