每日一词 96 | deepen

1. 这是什么词?

词:deepen

英英释义:to make deep or deeper

例句:Traveling and meeting new people can deepen our knowledge of the world.

2. 为什么选这个词?

“deepen”是个动词,来自于我们熟悉的形容词“deep”,主要意思是“加深”。deepen 常和名词 situation/relationship/emotion/knowledge/understanding 等搭配使用,是个让表达更简洁的小词。

比如旅行和见人可以让我们更好地了解这个世界,我们可以用英语说成:

Traveling and meeting new people can deepen our knowledge of the world.

我们在雅思托福考试中,想表述阅读可以增强思辨力时就可以说:

Analysis skills developed from reading help deepen critical thinking skills.

我们再来看《经济学人》中出现过的几个句子来体会 deepen 的灵活用法:

a) New types of religious state school deepen segregation.

b) It will doubtless deepen Hungary’s cultural and generational divide.

c) The task facing Britain in the early 1990s was to broaden and deepen Thatcher's reforms.

许多形容词都可以通过加后缀 -en 变成形容词,比如 widen,broaden,sharpen,sadden,harden 等,我们在阅读时要注意收集,让自己的表达更简洁、富于变化。

3. 怎样学会使用这个词?

1)翻译下面的句子: 主动倾听可以加强信任和互相理解。

(参考翻译:Active listening can deepen trust and mutual understanding.)

2)造句:

Reciting and dictation will aim at deepening understanding.

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