deepen
【英英释义】
v. 1. if a situation or emotion deepens or if something deepens it, it becomes stronger and more intense. 使变强烈（或紧张）；使加剧 V / V n
2. if you deepen your knowledge or understanding of a subject, you learn more about it and become more interested in it. 加深，深化，增进知识或理解 V n
3. when light or a color deepens or is deepened, it becomes darker. 使（光线或颜色）变暗；使变深 V / V n LITERAY 文学领域
4. when a sound deepens or is deepened, it becomes lower in tone. 使（声音）变低沉 V / V n
5. when your breathing deepens, or you deepen it, you take more air into your lungs when you breathe. （呼吸）变深长；加深（呼吸） V / V n
6. if people deepen something, they increase its depth by digging out its lower surface. 挖深 V n
7. something such as a river or a sea deepens where the bottom begins to slope downwards. （河流、海洋等）变深 V
to make deep or deeper
【词义深度解析】
deepen来自我们熟悉的形容词deep，主要意思是“加深”。deepen常和名词situation/relationship/emotion/knowledge/understanding等搭配使用。有很多动词后面加en，如widen，broaden，sharpen，sadden，harden等，可注意收集。
【例句学习】
1. Traveling and meeting new people can deepen our knwoledge of the world.
2. Analysis skills developed from reading help deepen critical thinking siklls.
阅读中培养的分析能力可以增强思辨能力。
3. New types of religious state school deepen segregation.
segregation /,segrɪ'geɪʃ(ə)n/ （因种族、性别、宗教不同而采取的）隔离措施，隔离政策
新型的宗教学校加强了其隔离措施。
4. It will doubtless deepen Hungary's cultural and generational divide.
Hungary 匈牙利
它无疑会加深匈牙利文化与世代的分裂。
5. The task facing Britain in the early 1990s was to broaden and deepen Thatcher's reforms.
上世纪90年代初，英国面临的任务是扩大和深化撒切尔的改革。
【词汇运用】
1. 翻译：主动倾听可以加强信任和互相理解。
Positive listening will deepen trust and understanding with each other. （自己）
Active listening can deepen trust and mutual understanding. （参考翻译）
分析：积极倾听，翻译为active listening. mutual 互相的
2. 生活场景应用
The lessons from his last mistake deepened his understanding of the market discipline.
