sweeten
动词 v.
英文释义
动词 v.
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To make sweet to the taste.
— to sweeten tea
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To make (more) pleasant or to the mind or feelings.
— to sweeten life
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To make mild or kind; to soften.
— to sweeten the temper
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To make less painful or laborious; to relieve.
— to sweeten the cares of life
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To soften to the eye; to make delicate.
— Correggio has made his memory immortal by the strength he has given to his figures, and by sweetening his lights and shadows, and melting them into each other.
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To make pure and healthful by destroying noxious matter.
— to sweeten rooms or apartments that have been infected
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To make warm and fertile.
— to dry and sweeten soils
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To raise the pH of (a soil) by adding alkali.
— [T]hey had prepared the garden carefully, plowing and sweetening the dirt with fireplace ashes and manure from the barn[.]
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To restore to purity; to free from taint.
— to sweeten water, butter, or meat
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To make more attractive; said of offers in negotiations.
— to sweeten the deal by increasing the price offered
- To become sweet.
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To supplement (a composition) with additional instruments, especially strings.
— In most popular music the bowed strings usually play long, sustained, sweeping parts, and are sometimes added to a vocal track later in a process known as sweetening.
词汇关系
词源
From sweet + -en. Eclipsed non-native Middle English doucen and endoucen, borrowed from Old French adoucir and endoucir (“to sweeten”).
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