whet
英 [wet]
美 [wet]
v. 刺激…的欲望; 增强…的兴趣
过去分词:whetted 过去式:whetted 现在分词:whetting 第三人称单数:whets
BNC.18573 / COCA.19708
牛津词典
verb
- 刺激…的欲望;增强…的兴趣
to increase your desire for or interest in sth- The book will whet your appetite for more of her work.
你看了这本书就会更想多读她的著作。
- The book will whet your appetite for more of her work.
柯林斯词典
- PHRASE 刺激(某人)对…的欲望;激发(某人)对…的兴趣
If someone or somethingwhetsyourappetite fora particular thing, they increase your desire to have it or know about it, especially by giving you an idea of what it is like.- A really good catalogue can also whet customers' appetites for merchandise.
一份真正好的商品目录也可以激起顾客购买的欲望。 - ...lectures he hopes might whet the appetite and keep students' enthusiasm.
他希望能激发学生们的兴趣,保持他们的热情的讲座
- A really good catalogue can also whet customers' appetites for merchandise.
英英释义
verb
- sharpen by rubbing, as on a whetstone
- make keen or more acute
- whet my appetite
双语例句
- I am sure this food will whet their appetites.
我敢肯定,这些菜能让他们大开胃口。 - His first step MS toadaptto the situation and keep hisacquisitivepartners from selling whet he had started to the highest bidder.
他采取的第一步是适应局面并阻止那些贪婪的合伙人把他创立的学校卖给出价最高的人。 - LAST year Google whet the appetites of geeks everywhere when it announced that it had developed Google Glass, a pair of web-connected smart glasses that could take photos and videos, and display information gleaned from the internet.
谷歌去年宣布开发出了谷歌眼镜,一下吊起了全球发烧友们的胃口。这是一种新型智能眼镜,能上网、能拍照、能看视频、还能显示网上订阅的文章。 - As I dug deeper into her life, each new revelation only served to whet my appetite for more details.
随着我对魏特琳身世的进一步了解,每一个新的发现都会激励我想了解有关她更多细节的兴趣。 - This article has just scratched the surface of using zippers in the Visitor pattern; the point of it is to whet your appetite for further exploration.
这篇文章仅仅是涉及了在访问者模式中使用zippers的一些浅显问题;目的在于激发您进一步探索的兴趣。 - A really good catalogue can also whet customers 'appetites for merchandise.
一份真正好的商品目录也可以激起顾客购买的欲望。 - With these beautifully crafted works of edible art, the park ´ s creators whet the mass'appetite to consume, but with style and cultivation.
除了风格和修养之外,凭借着这些做工精美的可食用艺术作品,公园的创造者激起了大众消费的欲望。 - It be the pressure that begs existence in hard environment because of DOing not experience the whet of environment of the very hardship to practice and bearing.
就是因为没有经受过极其艰苦的环境的磨练和承受艰苦环境里求生存的压力。 - Whet your appetite, are you hungry?
刺激你的欲望,你是否渴望? - Jack begins to whet the latter's appetite.
杰克开始吊亨利的胃口。