| 词汇 | widened |
| 释义 | widened past simple and past participle ofwiden 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 inflatable inflation lengthen puff puffed pump someone up reinflate reinflation scale something up 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 inflatable inflation lengthen puff puffed pump someone up reinflate reinflation scale something up You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Becoming bigger Examples of widenedwidened In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. A more extensive investigation would have widened the scope, but is unlikely to have altered the results in any significant way. Its scope was widened to include an unquestioned dominion over the essences of created things. 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. But those discrepancies have widened, rather than narrowed, during the post-war years. In this connection, it should be noted that the technological and social forces that drive population ageing have also widened the distance between successive generations. Further, economic decentralization widened diversities among the provinces and regions. The gap widened further in 1997 when the number of children fell to 947 and the number of carers to 748. The removal of discrimination from many aspects of life has widened the pool of talent, created a diverse workforce, and imposed an obligation to work. The master-servant divide allegedly widened over the course of the eighteenth century, trickling down from the nobility to the middling sorts. He is astute in showing how a split between unbelieving towns and the faithful rural hinterlands has widened. The range of services was also widened, and home help could now be combined with transport services, meals-on-wheels, day-care and chiropody services. The differential income levels across income-status groups over a variety of characteristics were first widened but began to converge in a catch-up phase of growth. The gap in the timing of entry into this role between the more competent and the least competent seems to have widened in recent decades. 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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