Widening

(noun.) the act of making something wider.

(noun.) an increase in width.

校对:齐利格

• Entering as a factor into an activity pursued for its own sake--whether as a means or as a widening of the content of the aim--it is informing. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Within two years this man completed and made that art available in its essential, fundamental facts, which remain unchanged after thirty years of rapid improvement and widening application. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• She glanced up, and he saw by her widening eyes that there must be something strange in his own. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• Along with that came the widening breach between himself and his mother. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Ingenious arrangements generally exist for widening or narrowing the cultivator and for throwing the soil from the centre of the furrow to opposite sides and against the plant. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Dredges were put to work immediately widening the channel at Cucaracha slide in Gaillard Cut, so that within a short time the canal was ready for use throughout its entire length. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• This streak of bitterness came from a plenteous source, and kept widening in the current of his thought as he neared Lowick Gate. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Thus we floated down the widening stream of the Po, sleeping when the cicale sang, awake with the stars. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• By it we are led to share vicariously in past human experience, thus widening and enriching the experience of the present. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• General McClernand had been, therefore, directed before I went to Young's Point to push the work of widening and deepening this canal. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• But her nervousness made the big stallion nervous, too, and he jerked his head, his nostrils widening at the firing and the noise of the bombs. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• It was long since it had thus plunged and reared under his widening waistcoat, leaving him, the next minute, with an empty breast and hot temples. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• That perhaps is the most general statement we can make about the story of the geological record; it is a story of widening range. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

校对:莱斯利