You can think of widen as taking the two edges of something and pushing them further apart. A road that was one lane becomes two; a gap in a fence that a hand could pass through becomes one a body can get through. The thing itself doesn't move — its two sides simply move away from each other, so the space between them grows.
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原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Widenname
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A surname from Swedish.
widenverb/ˈwaɪdn̩/
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To become wide or wider.
- His eyes widened as her negligee fell to the floor.
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To make wide or wider.
- The widening works include the rebuilding of the skew bridge near Northwood to take four tracks, and to enable the Rickmansworth Road to be widened to 60 ft.; […].
- But he still saw his side produce a rousing display which owed much to their lauded prowess from set-pieces, despite Uefa regulations meaning the pitch had to be widened and, in the process, the run-up area for Delap's long throws reduced.
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To let out clothes to a larger size.
- She widened his trousers for him.
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To broaden or extend in scope or range.
- The police widened their enquiries.
- While the primary focus of the Sexual Orientation Committee had been to lobby for gay rights legislation, the new Task Force hopes to widen its activities. The Task Force ― in addition to lobbying — hopes to function as an "umbrella organization," facilitating communication between the state's many gay groups.
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computingengineeringmathematicsTo convert to a data type that can hold a larger number of distinct values.
- to widen a short variable to an int variable
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