| 单词 | enrich |
| 释义 | enrich (once / 520 pages) v To enrich something is to make it richer, or to improve the quality of it. You play the lottery because it might enrich your bank account; you play ping-pong to enrich your quality of life. Regardless of the sense it is used in, the key to enrich is the word rich (you can almost think of it as the verb form of the adjective). So to enrich something is to make it rich, richer, or just plain better. Enrich always needs an object: You can’t visit a wax museum just to enrich, but you can go to enrich your life. Verbs that enrich include improve, enhance, cultivate, better, and develop. WORD FAMILYenrich: enriched, enriches, enriching, enrichment+/enrichment: enrichments/rich: enrich, richer, richest, richly, richness/richness: richnesses USAGE EXAMPLES"They are embracing all that's good and that doesn't just enrich their lives, it enriches and deepens ours too," he added. BBC(Dec 31, 2016) Westinghouse said Thursday it aims to load enriched uranium fuel in the reactor early next year, pushing back its previous year-end goal. Wall Street Journal(Dec 29, 2016) As empowering as the process was for them, there was something empowering and enriching for us to be on this side. Washington Times(Dec 29, 2016) 1v make better or improve in quality The experience enriched her understanding enriched foods Ant|Hypo|Hyper deprive, impoverish take away fill out, round out make bigger or better or more complete choke, throttlereduce the air supply feed, fertilise, fertilizeprovide with fertilizers or add nutrients to nitrifytreat (soil) with nitrates dungfertilize or dress with dung topdressscatter manure or fertilizer over (land) ameliorate, amend, better, improve, meliorate to make better 2v make wealthy or richer the oil boom enriched a lot of local people Ant|Hypo|Hyper impoverish make poor feather one's nest enrich oneself by taking advantage of one's position add make an addition (to); join or combine or unite with others; increase the quality, quantity, size or scope of |
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