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双解例句
小知识
When you heighten something, you increase it or make it more intense. If you want to heighten awareness about homelessness, you might write an article for your local newspaper.
Extreme weather can act to heighten people's concern about climate change, and publicity for a good cause can heighten awareness of the ways college students can volunteer their time. A movie director might heighten the tension in a scene by using scary music and dramatic lighting. In all of these cases, something is intensified or increased. The oldest, fifteenth-century meaning of heighten, however, was “to exalt, honor, or raise to a high position.”
实用短语
单词用法
这组词都可表示“加剧”。其区别是:
intensify指深化或加强事物的本质特征;
aggravate指加剧令人不快或困难的形势;
heighten指使某物的某种性质变得不同一般地显著或突出。
用作及物动词时,接名词或代词作宾语。
词根词缀
词根: heigh
=tall,表示”高”
n.
height 高,高度,身高;顶点;高位heigh高+t→ n.高,高度,身高;顶点;高位
v.
heighten 提高, 升高height高+en表动词→v.提高, 升高
同义词辨析
同义词
amplify / dignify / accentuate / strengthen / highlight / deepen / aggrandize / balloon
同根词
词根:high
adj.high高的;高级的;崇高的;高音调的
adv.highly高度地;非常;非常赞许地
high高;奢侈地
n.height高地;高度;身高;顶点
high高水平;天空;由麻醉品引起的快感;高压地带