Improve

(v. t.) To disprove or make void; to refute.

(v. t.) To disapprove; to find fault with; to reprove; to censure; as, to improve negligence.

(v. t.) To make better; to increase the value or good qualities of; to ameliorate by care or cultivation; as, to improve land.

(v. t.) To use or employ to good purpose; to make productive; to turn to profitable account; to utilize; as, to improve one's time; to improve his means.

(v. t.) To advance or increase by use; to augment or add to; -- said with reference to what is bad.

(v. i.) To grow better; to advance or make progress in what is desirable; to make or show improvement; as, to improve in health.

(v. i.) To advance or progress in bad qualities; to grow worse.

(v. i.) To increase; to be enhanced; to rise in value; as, the price of cotton improves.

录入:特德

• Who, then, shall conduct education so that humanity may improve? 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• I made the popularity of the subject a reason for going back to improve the acquaintance, and I have never since been the man I was. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• But you must improve it--yes, say you will--for I hate it all now! 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• I think you would always improve, Biddy, under any circumstances. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• Here was an opportunity for carrying out his new system with effect, if he chose to improve it. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• I approved, for my part, the amusing one's self with poetry now and then, so far as to improve one's language, but no farther. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• However, private individuals and companies continued to invent and improve, and the civil war in America revolutionised the systems of warfare and its weapons. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• She is stouter, too, and altogether improved, continued Miss Rosalind, who was disposed to be very fat. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Then came improved weighted and other safety valves to regulate and control this pressure. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Feeding and fattening countries, besides, must always be highly improved, whereas breeding countries are generally uncultivated. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• In every improved society, the farmer is generally nothing but a farmer; the manufacturer, nothing but a manufacturer. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Galileo soon thereafter greatly improved and increased its capacity, and was the first to direct it towards the heavens. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• The improved instrument produces untempered tones without requiring extraordinary variations from the usual arrangement of the keys. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Butter already rancid can be improved by treatment with a stronger solution (8 drachms of acid to 1 gallon of water), followed by washing in pure water. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• This was a great advance, as a more accurate division of time was had by improving the isochronous properties of the vibrating escapement. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Electricity can have no greater mission than improving, strengthening and upbuilding good homes. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• If I ever get better, and ever have a second opportunity of improving our acquaintance-- He got up. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Why should not the law of nations go on improving? 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• We next went to the school of languages, where three professors sat in consultation upon improving that of their own country. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• Upon their present plan, they have little opportunity of improving themselves by the example of any other nation, except that of the Japanese. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The young swarm of Hypanians, who may be advanced one hour in life, approach his person with respect, and listen to his improving discourse. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• The manufacturers first supply the neighbourhood, and afterwards, as their work improves and refines, more distant markets. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• But I think Mr. Darcy improves upon acquaintance. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• But what improves the circumstances of the greater part, can never be regarded as any inconveniency to the whole. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• They must begin with some quickness of sight and hand, and exercise improves them. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• The wages of labour are the encouragement of industry, which, like every other human quality, improves in proportion to the encouragement it receives. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The dairy becomes more worthy of the farmer's attention, and the quality of its produce gradually improves. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• If he improves at all, it is commonly not with a capital, but with what he can save out or his annual revenue. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.

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