(verb.) become deeper in tone; 'His voice began to change when he was 12 years old'; 'Her voice deepened when she whispered the password'.
(verb.) make deeper; 'They deepened the lake so that bigger pleasure boats could use it'.
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双语例句
These jetties so concentrated the flow of waters into a narrow channel as to cause its increased velocity to wash out the mud and silt and deepen the channel. Edward W. Byrn.十九世纪发明进展.
Did the cheque to Trenor explain the mystery or deepen it? 伊迪丝·华顿.快乐之家.
They all tend to deepen the impression upon my mind that the Cunninghams, father and son, had written this letter. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔.福尔摩斯回忆录.
He rose with a start, his ingenuous face looking as though it had been dipped in crimson: even the reddish tint in his beard seemed to deepen. 伊迪丝·华顿.快乐之家.
Does it fit into his more direct acquaintance so as to increase its efficacy and deepen its meaning? 约翰·杜威.民主与教育.
What Rosamond had written to him would probably deepen the painful impressions of the evening. 乔治·艾略特.米德尔马契.
We may note (1) The manner in which the objection of Adeimantus here, is designed to draw out and deepen the argument of Socrates. 柏拉图.理想国.
He sat looking at her, and did not rise to pay her any compliments, leaving that to others, now that his admiration was deepened. 乔治·艾略特.米德尔马契.
The desolate feeling with which I went abroad, deepened and widened hourly. 查尔斯·狄更斯.大卫·科波菲尔.
Its eyes seemed to look down on her with a reproach that deepened as she looked. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷.名利场.
On the banks of the river Saone it was wet, depressing, solitary; and the night deepened fast. 查尔斯·狄更斯.小杜丽.
Her loneliness deepened her desire. 托马斯·哈代.还乡.
The expression in the forehead, which had so particularly attracted his notice, and which was now immovable, had deepened into one of pain and horror. 查尔斯·狄更斯.双城记.
As the wet twilight deepened, I stopped in a solitary bridle-path, which I had been pursuing an hour or more. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.简·爱.
The shadows were deepening, darkness was settling in. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯.人猿泰山.
From the close of 1915 onwards Russia was a source of deepening anxiety to her Western allies. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
I felt compassion for him,' said Louisa, her colour deepening, 'and I wished to know what he was going to do, and wished to offer him assistance. 查尔斯·狄更斯.艰难时事.
And there was not only the actual debt; there was the certainty that in his present position he must go on deepening it. 乔治·艾略特.米德尔马契.
The seizure of the station with a fit of trembling, gradually deepening to a complaint of the heart, announced the train. 查尔斯·狄更斯.艰难时事.
But it is better than he expected after all, being no explosion of the mine below him or deepening of the pit into which he has fallen. 查尔斯·狄更斯.荒凉山庄.
Later this was remedied, by deepening the channel and increasing the number of vessels suitable to its navigation. 尤利西斯·格兰特.U.S.格兰特的个人回忆录.
The colour of Mr. George's face rather deepens as he replies, Why no. 查尔斯·狄更斯.荒凉山庄.
Literature refines, science deepens, various devices extend it. 沃尔特·李普曼.政治序论.
You observe that the scratch on that table is slight at one side, but deepens in the direction of the bedroom door. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔.福尔摩斯归来记.
In the adults, as I was to learn quite soon, this color deepens to an olive green and is darker in the male than in the female. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯.火星公主.