sweeten
vt. 使变甜, 加糖于, 使悦耳, 使温和, 减轻 vi. 变甜
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释义与例句
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1.
To make (more) pleasant or to the mind or feelings.
及物to sweeten life
to sweeten friendship
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2.
To make mild or kind; to soften.
及物to sweeten the temper
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To make less painful or laborious; to relieve.
及物to sweeten the cares of life
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To soften to the eye; to make delicate.
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To make pure and healthful by destroying noxious matter.
及物to sweeten rooms or apartments that have been infected
to sweeten the air
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To make warm and fertile.
及物to dry and sweeten soils
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To raise the pH of (a soil) by adding alkali.
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To restore to purity; to free from taint.
及物to sweeten water, butter, or meat
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To make more attractive; said of offers in negotiations.
及物to sweeten the deal by increasing the price offered
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To become sweet.
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To supplement (a composition) with additional instruments, especially strings.
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To make sweet to the taste.
加甜
及物to sweeten tea
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词源
From sweet + -en. Eclipsed non-native Middle English doucen and endoucen, borrowed from Old French adoucir and endoucir (“to sweeten”).
来源：wiktionary