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词汇 broadening
释义 broadening
present participle ofbroaden
broaden
verb
uk /ˈbrɔː.dən/ us /ˈbrɑː.dən/

broadenverb (WIDER)


[ I or T ]
to become wider, or to cause something to become wider: (使)变宽;(使)变阔
The track broadens and becomes a road at this point.小道逐渐拓宽,到这里就成了一条马路。
They are broadening the bridge to speed up the flow of traffic.他们正在拓宽大桥以提高通行能力。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Enlarging and inflating
augmentation
balloon
bloat
broaden
build (someone/something) up
bulk
expand
explosively
flare
fluff something up
implacably
inflatable
inflation
lengthen
puff
puffed
pump someone up
reinflate
reinflation
scale something up

broadenverb (MORE GENERAL)


C1[ T ]
to increase the range of something: 扩展;拓宽
broaden someone's/something's appeal They've introduced all sorts of new elements to that programme in order to broaden its appeal.他们已经给那个节目加入了各种新元素以增强其吸引力。
This seems to be an attempt to broaden his political appeal.
broaden someone's horizonsI hoped that going to college might broaden my horizons (= increase the range of my knowledge and experience).我希望上大学能使我增长见识。
 broaden the/your mind
to make someone understand more and know more about different subjects, ideas, places, etc.: 拓展(视野,思维)
They say that travel broadens the mind.他们说旅行拓展思维。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Elaborating, specifying and simplifying
abstract
anti-reductionism
anti-reductionist
broad brush
broaden
enlarge
enlarge on/upon something
expand
expand on something
expansively
over-elaboration
overgeneralization
overgeneralize
oversimplification
oversimplify
simplify
spec
specification
specificity
specify

Phrasal verb


broaden out

Examples of broadening


broadening

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.


To 'broaden knowledge'(an aspect of 'broadening appreciation') came third with 20 per cent.
When recombination is included, both the density and potential profiles show significant broadening.
More rapid binding kinetics result in resonance line broadening and this situation must be dealt with in some way.
The concept of communicative competence, initially developed for ethnographic research, appeared to offer an intellectual basis for pedagogic broadening.
Exclusive groups draw part of their strength and self-definition from their narrowness - broadening them, or lowering the barriers to entry, simply weakens them.
The physical size of the sucker results in a broadening of the worm at this point and is generally the widest aspect of the worm.
The gradual broadening of the spectral lines closer to the target, that is, with decreasing distance y, is obvious.
This is the situation where the linear frequency broadening is absent and is the crucial case to test our ideas on phase-locking and coherence.
In short, for many, broadening access may take precedence over health outcomes maximization.
The hypothesis that there is less variation among sign languages can be tested only by broadening the range of sign languages studied.
This critique encouraged reforming initiatives from the opposition aimed at eliminating corruption but not at broadening the basis of political participation.
Thus, in addition to broadening the scope of rights that ought to be measured, political scientists need to deepen their sources of information.
Market actors may use their opportunities for broadening their sphere of activity to circumvent public policies that would impose regulatory costs on them.
The communicative competence model proved highly successful in broadening the scope of classroom teaching and applied linguistics.
He also makes suggestions about broadening one's views in order to form a good relationship with the community.
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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