smarten 的 2 个定义
- to make more trim or spruce; improve in appearance: Try to smarten up your outfit.
- to make brisker, as a pace.
- to sharpen the judgment or broaden the experience of; educate: Someone has to smarten him up about dealing with people.
- smarten up, to groom oneself: to smarten up before dinner.to become aware of one's mistakes, shortcomings, etc., and make efforts to correct them: If you don't smarten up, you're going to be out of a job.
smarten 近义词
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更多smarten例句
- This cheap, tiny plug is a simple way to smarten up an old gadget.
- These tiny devices offer a cheap, simple way to smarten up any gadget without connectivity.
- I always shave myself on rest days—it is pleasant to feel clean, even when there is no one to smarten oneself up for.
- The next day we had to smarten up and get ready for the Brigadier-General, who was going to inspect us.
- It tends to smarten a man, and officers are not slow to pick out the careful from the slovenly soldier.
- An' I take it that the bar'l has an influence: some bar'ls kind of wilt cider and some smarten it up, and keep it hearty.
- Tumble up at once, an' git a lively move on, or I'll be down an' smarten ye up!'