heighten

• vt. 提高；增高；加强；使更显著
• vi. 升高；变强

height,高，高度，-en,使。

1. become more extreme;

"The tension heightened"

2. make more extreme; raise in quantity, degree, or intensity;

"heightened interest"

3. increase;

"This will enhance your enjoyment"

"heighten the tension"

4. increase the height of;

"The athletes kept jumping over the steadily heightened bars"

5. make (one's senses) more acute;

"This drug will sharpen your vision"

6. make more intense, stronger, or more marked;

"The efforts were intensified", "Her rudeness intensified his dislike for her"

"Potsmokers claim it heightens their awareness"

"This event only deepened my convictions"

heighten (v.)

mid-15c., heightenen "to exalt, to honor or raise to high position," from height + -en (1). Related: Heightened; heightening.

enhance, heighten, intensify, aggravate

这些动词均有"加强，增强"之意。

enhance： 侧重指增加价值，魅力或声望等使人或物具有超科寻常的吸引力。

heighten： 通常指使某物的某种性质变得不同于一般的显著或突出。

intensify： 指深化或强化某事或某物，尤指其特别之处。

aggravate： 指加剧令人不快或困难的形势。

People who do not have access to a good listener may not only be denied the opportunity to heighten their self-awareness, but they are also denied valuable feedback as to the validity and acceptability of their inner thoughts and feelings.

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The campaign is intended to heighten public awareness of the disease.

这场运动的目的是使公众更加了解这种疾病。

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Tension has heightened after the recent bomb attack.

最近的炸弹袭击之后，情势更加紧张。

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These latest murders have heightened fears of further attacks...

最近发生的这些谋杀案让人们愈加担心会出现更多的袭击。

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The move has heightened tension in the state...

该举动加剧了州里的紧张气氛。

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This will enhance your enjoyment ; heighten the tension.

这会增加你们的乐趣.

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Heighten efficiency ; predigest working procedure to reduce cost.

在工作范围内,不断提高效率、简化工作以降低成本.

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Perform an operation is heighten safe?

动手术增高安全 吗 ?

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Unlike her father a writer, Ella doesn't heighten her interest in reading and writing at all.

埃拉对阅读和写作根本提不起兴趣,这不像她的作家父亲.

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He took advantage of every opportunity to heighten racial tensions.

他利用一切机会加剧种族间的紧张关系.

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It is discovered that mischmetal can heighten ignition point of ZM 5 alloy obviously.

实验发现,混合稀土能明显提高ZM5镁合金的起燃温度.

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When we heighten the data transmission speed , we should assure the reliability of the data transmission.

数据传输速率提高的同时必须保证数据传输的可靠性, 即保证一定的误比特率.

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Accordingly, the requirement to computer hardware also subsequently heighten.

相应地, 对于电脑硬件的要求也就随之增高了.

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A weakened immune system does not heighten the risks of catching a cold.

一个弱免疫系统是不会增加感冒的感染可能性的.

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Afterfinish: advanced equipment and distinctive technices heighten the apparel with perfect toughness.

先进的后整设备、殊的后整工艺,使您的产品锦上添花,具有完美的质感.

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CMM is an important model that can improve software process and heighten competence of software enterprise.

CMM是软件企业改善软件过程,提高软件企业竞争力的一个重要模型.

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Manufacturers always implement VMI to decrease inventory and heighten inventory turnover.

本文认为,制造企业普遍实施供应商管理库存(VMI)来减少企业存货,提高存货周转率.

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Systole presses heighten, diastolic pressure drops, pressing of arteries and veins also increases accordingly.

收缩压增高, 舒张压下降, 脉压也相应增大.

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This power to instantly transform emotions, to lower or heighten their intensity, I call Transformational Vocabulary.

马上能改变人的情绪, 使其低沉或高昂的言词, 我称之为“转变词汇”.

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It is shown that the improved coal ash adsorbent can obviously heighten the absorptivity of ions.

证明粉煤灰吸附剂显著提高了对水中离子的吸附性.

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Researchers found that caffeine did indeed heighten the pressure felt.

研究者发现咖啡因确实会增强压迫感.

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The current economic environment may heighten the importance of a company's loyalty program.

现今的经济环境可能更强调顾客品牌忠诚计画的重要性.

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The policy of taking full responsibility for a task helps to heighten the farmers'enthusiasm.

实行大包干儿,有利于提高农民生产积极性.

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They wanted to heighten the building by the addition of a third storey.

他们打算在建筑物上加建第三层楼.

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The other hand, in the fund market positively in order to heighten the ability of profit.

另一方面, 积极参与资金市场,提高创利能力.

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All the common discomforts of walking in the rainseemed to heighten the menace of his pursuer.

在雨中行走常见的一切不适之感,仿佛增加了他对跟踪者的恐惧.

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At present, researchers are dedicating to mechanism investigation and parameters optimization to heighten its efficiency further.

目前, 研究者们正在不断的优化其参数,以提高其制冷效率.

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Why , then, should they direct and heighten and provoke and curb every action of life?

既然如此, 它们又为什么会指导、或加强、或引起、或阻止生命中的每个行为 呢 ?

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Target: Heighten enterprise's strength, improve the welfare of the stuffs. "

目标: 增强企业实力, 提高员工生活的福利待遇.

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