whets

英 [wets]

美 [wets]

v.  刺激…的欲望; 增强…的兴趣
whet的第三人称单数

柯林斯词典

• PHRASE 刺激(某人)对…的欲望;激发（某人）对…的兴趣
  If someone or somethingwhetsyourappetite fora particular thing, they increase your desire to have it or know about it, especially by giving you an idea of what it is like.
  1. A really good catalogue can also whet customers' appetites for merchandise.
     一份真正好的商品目录也可以激起顾客购买的欲望。
  2. ...lectures he hopes might whet the appetite and keep students' enthusiasm.
     他希望能激发学生们的兴趣，保持他们的热情的讲座

双语例句

• In typical western business schools a presentation merely whets the appetite of the argumentative and eager students watching.
  在一般的西方商学院，教师的讲演不过是为了激起勤奋、好争辩的学生的兴趣。
• Human's personal character and the psychology are the result which the environment gradually influences and whets, the environment has the greatest influence to human's thought personal character formation.
  人的品德和心理是环境熏陶和磨砺的结果，环境对人的思想品德的形成具有莫大影响。
• Besides, the first sell just whets the appetite.
  除此之外，第一笔交易就是为了吊足胃口。
• He whets the knife, quick quick, for pig and sheep.
  他增强刀，快的快，对猪和羊。
• This smell whets my appetite.
  香味引起我的食欲。
• Generally speaking, the adverse circumstances, frustrate whets the person's will more easily, they have the stronger existence dint and competition ability.
  一般来说，逆境、挫折更容易磨砺人的意志，他们具有较强的生存力和竞争力。
• Takes inventory oneself also is whets oneself, unceasingly circulatestaking inventory, can cause the person to consummate day by day, onlyis beautiful!
  盘存自己也是磨砺自己，不断循环的盘存，能使人日趋完善、美！
• But as the German whets his appetite on another slice of history, the sport he dominates is in deepest crisis.
  但是当德国人想再次创造历史时，他所统治的这项运动却处于最大的危机之中。