heighten是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 加高, 提高, 增大，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- While the mate was getting the hammer, Ahab, without speaking, was slowly rubbing the gold piece against the skirts of his jacket, as if to heighten its lustre, and without using any words was meanwhile lowly humming to himself, producing a sound so strangely muffled and inarticulate that it seemed the mechanical humming of the wheels of his vitality in him.
-- This elusive quality it is, which causes the thought of whiteness, when divorced from more kindly associations, and coupled with any object terrible in itself, to heighten that terror to the furthest bounds.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Elizabeth listened with delight to the happy, though modest hopes which Jane entertained of Mr. Bingley's re-gard, and said all in her power to heighten her confidence in it.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But every circumstance that could embitter such an evil seemed uniting to heighten the misery of Marianne in a final separation from Willoughby in an immediate and irreconcilable rupture with him.
-- The sight of your dear sister, however, was really dreadful; and, to heighten the matter, I found her alone.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Anxious to show his independence and to advance, he had refused a post that had been offered him, hoping that this refusal would heighten his value; but it turned out that he had been too bold, and he was passed over.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The former was seated on the end of a mossy log, in a posture that permitted him to heighten the effect of his earnest language, by the calm but expressive gestures of an Indian engaged in debate.
-- A silence of a minute succeeded, during which the In-dian sat mute; then, full of the dignity of his office, he commenced his brief tale, with a solemnity that served to heighten its appearance of truth.
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