sharpener
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[编辑]sharpener (複數 sharpeners)
- 磨削器
- There was a pencil sharpener at the front of the classroom.
- 教室前面有個削筆刀。
- (比喻義) 使變明顯、加強的事物
- 1795, Hannah More, The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain
- “Sir,” said the shepherd, “poverty is a great sharpener of the wits. […]
- 1872, Chambers's miscellany of instructive & entertaining tracts
- The snuff-box, knife, and chicken-bones were again in requisition, and a pen was successfully formed. The ink, or at least its substitute, was rather more difficult, but necessity is always a sharpener of intellect, and even this was accomplished.
- 1795, Hannah More, The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain
- (非正式) 起床後或飯前喝的酒