sharpens

英 [ˈʃɑːpənz]

美 [ˈʃɑːrpənz]

v.  (使)变得锋利，变得清晰; (使感觉或感情)加强，加重，变得更明显; 使尖锐; 使明朗
sharpen的第三人称单数

柯林斯词典

• V-ERG (感觉、理解)加强;(使)加深;(技巧)提高;(使)改善
  If your senses, understanding, or skillssharpenorare sharpened, you become better at noticing things, thinking, or doing something.
  1. 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。
  2. 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 yousharpenan object, you make its edge very thin or you make its end pointed.
  1. He started to sharpen his knife.
     他开始磨刀。
  2. ...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 peoplesharpen, or if theyare sharpened, they become bigger or more important.
  1. 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。
  2. 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。

双语例句

• Fasting increases our goodness, cultivates our nature, and sharpens our consciousness of Allah.
  斋戒增加我们的善功，培养我们的本性，凸显我们的认主意识。
• Promotion metabolism, strengthens human body own immunity, sharpens the disease-resistant ability, relieves the Asian healthy condition, restores the health and the youth vigor!
  促进新陈代谢，增强人体自身免疫力，提高抗病能力，解除亚健康状态，恢复健康和青春活力！
• As selfishness and complaint cloud the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.
  自私和抱怨使心灵阴暗，愉悦的爱则使视野明朗开阔。
• World catastrophe, is sharpens the human soul with a sword, it is very difficult for us to hold it.
  天地间的大灾难，是磨砺人类魂灵的一柄利剑，我们很难握得住它。
• The presence of foreign banks tends to increase competition, which, in turn, sharpens the competitive edge of domestic banks.
  外资银行的参与一般都能提高市场竞争，从而推动本地银行加强竞争优势。
• I believed that in there study, I will increase knowledge enormously, sharpens the synthesizing capacity as well as in realizes in the life value to go out important one step.
  我相信，在那里学习，我将极大地增长知识，提高综合能力以及在实现人生价值上走出重要的一步。
• The give and take of ideas in a conversation sharpens our minds, she said.
  交谈中思想上的施与受能够磨砺我们的心智。
• He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
  和我们搏斗的人增强我们的神经，磨砺我们的技巧。敌手即是助手。
• Although it seems not to violate our country's family planning policy, in nature it is the conflict between peasants'childbearing wish and the policy which sharpens sex ratio unbalance.
  它虽然表面上并没有违反国家的计划生育政策，但实质上却是农民生育意愿与计划生育政策之间博弈的结果，使性别比失调问题更为严重。
• I still find looking at something 'real' sharpens my creative focus.
  我仍然觉得，观察某些‘真实’的东西可以令自己的创意关注点更加敏锐。