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词汇 widening
释义 widening
present 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.
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

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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?
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

You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:


Becoming bigger

Examples of widening


widening

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


Moreover, these differences appear to be widening over time.
The widening split between the maritime unions and the general labour movement is also illustrated well by the events of mid-1917.
This finding points towards the widening of marriage fields and sheds light on the process of decreasing geographical endogamy in the twentieth century.
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.
For confined types it is necessary to restrict widening of types to prevent a confined type from being cast to a plain reference.
Note that complex widening operators, such as the ones that will be presented in the following sections, will not generally be stable.
We are going to illustrate the ideas that can be used to build elementary widening operators over such subsets.
Similar widening of access to help applies when the children live closer to or with their parents.
They know from bitter experience that politicians' promises of prosperity can easily evaporate into deepening poverty and widening income gaps.
This was necessary as globalization had resulted in a widening of the income gap.
Instead of creating a new citizenry encompassing both rural and urban, they created a widening rural+ urban gulf.
The analyser is a robust, fast, precise and scalable and does not require widening for the largest program in the benchmark suite.
The widening of this divergence is fully consistent with the existence of the above-discussed constraints on the ability of family farms to reach large sizes.
While such figures alone reveal a widening fascination in the psychic terrain of the ancient, the rich breadth of subject matter also deserves attention.
The widening difference in the levels of wealth between these two families cannot all be attributed, however, to the respective sizes of their initial assets.
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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