heighten

英 [ˈhaɪtn]

美 [ˈhaɪtn]

v.  (使)加强，提高，增加

过去分词：heightened　过去式：heightened　现在分词：heightening　第三人称单数：heightens　

CET6考研TOEFLIELTSTEM8

Collins.2 / BNC.8474 / COCA.7990

牛津词典

verb

• （使）加强，提高，增加
  if a feeling or an effect heightens , or sth heightens it, it becomes stronger or increases
  1. Tension has heightened after the recent bomb attack.
     最近的***袭击之后，情势更加紧张。
  2. The campaign is intended to heighten public awareness of the disease.
     这场运动的目的是使公众更加了解这种疾病。

柯林斯词典

• V-ERG （使）（情感）增强;（使）加深
  If somethingheightensa feeling or if the feelingheightens, the feeling increases in degree or intensity.
  1. The move has heightened tension in the state...
     该举动加剧了州里的紧张气氛。
  2. These latest murders have heightened fears of further attacks...
     最近发生的这些谋杀案让人们愈加担心会出现更多的袭击。
  3. Cross's interest heightened.
     克罗斯的兴趣浓厚起来。
  4. ...a heightened awareness of the dangers that they now face.
     对他们目前面临的危险的进一步认识

英英释义

verb

• make more intense, stronger, or more marked
  1. The efforts were intensified
  2. Her rudeness intensified his dislike for her
  3. Pot smokers claim it heightens their awareness
  4. This event only deepened my convictions
  Synonym:intensifycompounddeepen
• increase
  1. This will enhance your enjoyment
  2. heighten the tension
  Synonym:enhanceraise
• make (one's senses) more acute
  1. This drug will sharpen your vision
  Synonym:sharpen
• make more extreme
  1. heightened interest
• become more extreme
  1. The tension heightened
  Synonym:rise
• increase the height of
  1. The athletes kept jumping over the steadily heightened bars

双语例句

• This power to instantly transform emotions, to lower or heighten their intensity, I call Transformational Vocabulary.
  马上能改变人的情绪，使其低沉或高昂的言词，我称之为“转变词汇”。
• Pollute chroma for instance can because of long airtight and heighten?
  比如污染浓度会不会因长时间密闭而增高？
• Therefore, It is imperative to open up new technique of building energy-saving and heighten the energy using efficiency.
  为此，不断地开发新的建筑节能技术，提高建筑物的能源利用效率至关重要。
• R& D globalization provides a new way to generate and heighten technology level and sustain market competitiveness.
  国际化为企业提高技术水平，保持市场竞争优势提供了新的通道。
• Above all, we must heighten our vigilance and prevent such a disaster.
  重要的是，我们必须提高警惕，我们必须阻止这样的灾害再次发生。
• Use eye shadow to heighten you eyes.
  用眼影来增大你的眼睛。
• The theft will heighten concerns about client confidentiality in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, which have strict bank secrecy.
  这宗数据失窃事件将加剧人们对瑞士和列支敦士登银行客户保密状况的担忧，这两个欧洲国家施行严格的银行保密制度。
• Objective To study the clinical characteristics of lower lung field tuberculosis and heighten the awareness of LLFTB.
  目的了解下肺野结核的临床特点，提高对LLFTB的认识。
• The main allure is that, unlike in good times when corporate inertia and humanity's preference for the status quo heighten resistance to change, crises make it easier to take radical action and sell it to employees, customers and investors.
  主要的诱惑在于，景气时期公司的惯性和人性对现状的偏好提高了改革的阻力，而与此不同的是，危机使得采取激进行动，以及向雇员、客户和投资人的推销会比较容易。
• Utilizing NC system reforms lathes is an important method to heighten the rate of old equipments.
  内容摘要利用数控系统改造车床是提高老设备利用率的一种重要手段。