sweeten: vt.1.把…弄甜,给…加糖;把…弄香,给…去臭;使减低酸性;【石油】使脱硫;〔美俚〕用威士忌酒加浓;使(声音)美妙,使(音调)好听。2.使愉快。3.使温和,使温柔;减轻(悲伤),缓和。4.把…弄清洁,使新鲜,给…消毒。5.增加(担保品;扑克赌注)。短语和例子sweeten one's life 使生活愉快。 sweeten a room 把房间消毒[搞好房间里的清洁卫生]
The cold air sweetened , banded pebbles and crumbs of soil cast sudden pencil - long shadows and the rearing lodgepole pines below them massed in slabs of somber malachite 寒冷的空气渐渐变暖,层峦叠嶂刹那间投下铅笔一样细长的黑影,山下的松林郁郁葱葱,远望去象一堆堆阴森恐怖的孔雀石。