单词详解

 vt. & vi

A. 削尖，磨快 (make sharp or sharper)

    The boy neatly sharpened pencils. 男孩利索地将铅笔一支支削尖。

Her voice sharpened as she became impatient

她变得不耐烦了，声音也变尖了。

    The butcher sharpened up their knives. 屠夫把刀磨得锋利。

B. 使敏锐，使敏捷 (make sharp or sharper)

We had to sharpen our arguments. 我们必须使辩论更敏锐。

    Debates sharpen our wits. 辩论增长才智。

C. 加重，加剧，使尖锐

Cold weather sharpens the pain in my knee. 寒冷使我膝盖的疼痛加剧。

The debate sharpened considerably. 辩论变得相当激烈。

My pencil is blunt. Could you lend me a knife to sharpen it?

我的铅笔钝了。你能借我把刀子削一削吗？

相关词组

1. sharpen up  使……更敏锐；认真思考

 The soldiers sharpened up their knives. 战士们把刀磨得锋利。

2. sharpen one’s wits  增长才智

Generations of urban living sharpened their wits.

世代居住在城市里使他们磨练了才智。

相关单词

 名词：sharpener

过去式：sharpened

过去分词：sharpened

现在分词：sharpening

第三人称单数：sharpens