brighten是什么意思

双语用例

• Future brightening for depression treatments.

• Many old people have had their lives brightened by visits which are paid to them.

• The owners painted the shopping centre pink to try to make people feel that things were brightening up.

• Our predecessors did this from time to time as the outlook brightened.

• They have felt they were bringing happiness to hundreds and thousands of old people steeped in despair and anxiety, and brightening their days.

• The dormitories have been redecorated and the shelter where people wait for admission has been cleaned and brightened up.

• The whitewash goes on, the canteen cook gets instructions, the board room is polished, the boys are brightened up and everybody is on his toes.

• There are some hundreds of thousands of working-class homes which are badly in need of improvement and brightening.