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    To enhance something is to make it better, stronger, clearer, or more pleasant — not to invent it from nothing, and not usually to something that is broken. You enhance flavour with a little salt, enhance a photo with light, enhance a skill with practice. The thing is already there; you raise its quality.

    To enhance something提升某樣東西 is to make it better, stronger, clearer, or more pleasant是讓它變得更好、更強、更清楚或更討人喜歡 not to invent it from nothing不是從無中生出它 and not usually to mend something that is broken通常也不是修好一個壞掉的東西 You你 enhance flavour with a little salt用一點鹽提升風味 enhance a photo with light用光線提升照片效果 enhance a skill with practice用練習提升技能 The thing這個東西 is already there本來就已經在那裡了 you你 raise its quality只是把它的品質提高

    Companies love the word (enhanced features, enhanced security) because it sounds like an upgrade without promising a brand-new thing. It is a little more formal than improve, and it often suggests adding quality on top.

    Companies公司 love the word喜歡用這個字 (enhanced features, enhanced security)(enhanced features、enhanced security) because它 it sounds like an upgrade聽起來像升級 without promising a brand-new thing卻又不用承諾一個全新的東西 It它 is a little more formal than improve比improve正式一點 and it often suggests adding quality on top而且常常暗示著在原本之上再加上品質

    You would not naturally enhance the number of chairs in a room — you add more chairs. You enhance how the room feels.

    You你 would not naturally enhance the number of chairs in a room不會自然地說enhance房間裡椅子的數量 you而是 add more chairs會說加更多椅子 You你 enhance how the room feels提升的是房間給人的感覺

    Though actually, the old meaning was closer to “raise” or “lift up,” from a Latin word for high. That lift is still inside the modern sense: you are raising something, not replacing it.

    Though actually不過其實 the old meaning舊的意思 was closer to "raise" or "lift up,"比較接近「提高」或「舉起」 from a Latin word for high源自拉丁文裡表示「高」的字 That lift那個「舉起」的感覺 is still inside the modern sense還留在現代的意思裡 you你 are raising something是在把某樣東西提高 not replacing it不是在替換它

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組成From Middle English enhauncen, from Anglo-Norman anhauncer (“to raise”), from Latin in + altus (“high”). The old job of the word was to lift something up; the /h/ sound was taken from French haut (“high”).

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以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,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。

enhanceverb/ɪnˈhɑːns/

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    obsoleteTo lift, raise up.

    • nought aghast, his mightie hand enhaunst: / The stroke down from her head vnto her shoulder glaunst.
  • 2

    To augment or make something greater.

    • They had no character to preserve, except for courage; and perhaps the reputation of ferocity enhanced the value of their services, in making them feared as well as hated by the people.
    • A hereditary monarch relies on pomp and ceremony, which enhance the respect for the institution
  • 3

    To improve something by adding features.

    • A pom-pom to top off a stocking cap, a fringe to feather the edge of a shawl, tassels to define the points of an afghan, these are just a few of the delightful little goodies that enhance handknit things.
    • The only silver lining for businesses and local residents was that there was at least an end in sight, and that the new station, once built, would enhance the area and provide improved east-west access for pedestrians.
  • 4

    To be raised up; to grow larger.

    • A debt enhances rapidly by compound interest.
  • 5

    medicineradiologysciencesTo take up contrast agent (for an organ, tissue, or lesion).

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。