| 词汇 | heighten |
| 释义 | heighten verb[ I or T ] uk /ˈhaɪ.tən/ us /ˈhaɪ.t̬ən/ to increase or make something increase, especially an emotion or effect: （使）（尤指某种情绪或效果）增强，加强 The strong police presence only heightened the tension among the crowd.大批警察的出现只能使人群更加紧张。 Increasing and intensifying accretion accumulate accumulative accumulatively add fuel to the fireidiom blaze fade go into orbitidiom go up growing growingly hot up inflation mushroom ratchet something up/down re-escalate re-escalation reach a crescendo redouble stake heighten | American Dictionaryheighten verb[ I/T ] us/ˈhɑɪt·ən/ to increase, esp. an emotion or effect: [ I ]As the excitement heightened, the audience began stamping their feet. [ T ]The high winds heightened concerns about forest fires. Examples of heightenheighten The interpretative difficulties of these reversions are heightened as soon as we acknowledge that there was more than a fictional character at stake. For myself, repeated reading has heightened appreciation of both its achievement and its gaps. Other exercises aim in particular at heightening the actor's sensory awareness. Security concerns are naturally heightened during such events. The risk may also be heightened when the practitioner is alone and the judgement or opinion of another practitioner is not readily available. These differences may be heightened further by the exaggerated prosody of child-directed speech. Shortly before passage, turmoil over private benefits was intense and interest in state measures heightened. Therefore, it is unlikely that blackballing activities caused or heightened voter cynicism. The recently increased numbers of visitors to concentrations of wildlife, and to penguin rookeries in particular, have heightened concern over this issue. This effect is heightened by the increasing importance of trade impediments, which have a much higher information complexity than the tariff, such as sanitary standards. The implications of these patterns for heightening our understanding of mortuary ritual are explored in depth. He then maintains this division through the remaining numbers, using the 'rhythmic characterisation' to heighten the conflict between the two sopranos. For an audience who imagined the very insiderness of this show to be a privilege, the outsiderness of the lyrics heightened the glow. Because listeners pay heightened attention to per formed ideological positions, framing plays a critical role in shaping the norms for interpreting social truths. But, incidents of violence could acquire heightened political significance in different contexts. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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