| 词汇 | heightening |
| 释义 | heightening present participle ofheighten 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 crank go into orbitidiom go up growing growingly heighten inflation mushroom ramp something up ratchet something up/down re-escalate re-escalation reach a crescendo stake Examples of heighteningheightening In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Other exercises aim in particular at heightening the actor's sensory awareness. The implications of these patterns for heightening our understanding of mortuary ritual are explored in depth. The turnaround in the privatisation process coincided, however, with a new heightening in the pressure on commons resources, due to two major reasons. Hand-written annotations and automated calculations are given a complementarity status as they contribute to a process of a heightening of listening capacities. These have the function of heightening an individual's awareness of the themes around which his or her life has developed. The feedback-mediated acquisition 0 improvement in fixational control may be attributable in par t to a heightening of awareness. It might be that the writer's political preference or narrative approach has the unintended effect of heightening the availability of this sort of explanation. One of them entails heightening the personal motivation of potential donors by offering financial incentives. The study reveals that sub-national and resource issues can lead to a flowering of and heightening of civil society activity. Concurrent with this, and heightening the significance of youth ensembles, the life histories revealed schooling that failed to address storytellers' full requirements as musical learners. Instead, it complemented the heightening press campaign against inactivity. This collection helps to restate the diversity of the popular music experience while simultaneously further heightening the tensions between theory and practice. The worldly variant presented itself as a way of dispelling loneliness and melancholy, derangement and mania, and of heightening the festive spirit in group gatherings. This article discusses a project in which electronic conferencing was used to replace the conventional seminar as a means of heightening cross-cultural awareness. Indeed, it would seem that position-relative agent values might come in on both sides of the case, thus heightening the dilemma. 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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