| 词汇 | widen |
| 释义 | widen verb[ I or T ] uk /ˈwaɪ.dən/ us /ˈwaɪ.dən/ widenverb[I or T] (DISTANCE)B2 to become, or to make something greater in width: （使）变宽，加宽；放宽 As it approaches the sea, the river begins to widen (out).随着河流接近入海口，河道开始变宽。 They are widening the road in our village. He is having an operation to widen the space in his arteries. The valley widens here. Enlarging and inflating augmentation balloon bloat broaden build (someone/something) up bulk expand explosively flare fluff something up implacably inflation lengthen puff puffed pump someone up reinflate reinflation scale something up stretch You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Becoming bigger widenverb[I or T] (AMOUNT)B2 to (cause something to) become larger or to include a larger amount or number: （使）变宽；（使）变多；（使）变大 His eyes/smile widened.他睁大了眼睛／大笑起来。 Why not widen the discussion to include the Muslim and Jewish points of view?为什么不扩大讨论的范围，把伊斯兰教和犹太教的观点也包括进来？ Enlarging and inflating augmentation balloon bloat broaden build (someone/something) up bulk expand explosively flare fluff something up implacably inflation lengthen puff puffed pump someone up reinflate reinflation scale something up stretch You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Becoming bigger widen | American Dictionarywiden verb[ I/T ] us/ˈwɑɪ·dən/ to become farther in distance from one side to the other: [ I ]After it passes through town, the road widens. to allow or encourage influence by something else: [ T ]Let’s widen the discussion by listening to people with other points of view. Examples of widenwiden The bed of the watercourse widens until it reaches savannah trees, which consequently find themselves on the riverbank. A more extensive investigation would have widened the scope, but is unlikely to have altered the results in any significant way. Moreover, these differences appear to be widening over time. The twenty included in this volume widen its scope and enhance greatly its use to scholars. Its scope was widened to include an unquestioned dominion over the essences of created things. The widening split between the maritime unions and the general labour movement is also illustrated well by the events of mid-1917. After 1924, wage earner cases exceeded business cases in each year, and the gap widened as the rate of wage earner bankruptcy increased. The dispersion of total income widened over the eight years, especially among women. A question, for example, can be signaled by raised eyebrows, widened eyes, and a slight leaning forward of the head. The shaft (calomus) consists of a straight tube which widens slightly before dividing. This relation is used in the typing rules to prevent widening a confined type to a public type; confinement-preserving widening requires safe subtyping to hold. But it is a right to prevent wrongdoing, which widens in response to dangers where the risk of mistake is certain to fall somewhere. But those discrepancies have widened, rather than narrowed, during the post-war years. This knowledge was disseminated through the widening realm of print media from 1850. Education in the expanding government school and college system had widened their horizons, while, at the same time raising their expectations of worldly advancement. See all examples of widen 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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