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strengthen

英 ['streŋθ(ə)n; -ŋkθ(ə)n] 美['strɛŋθn]

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vt. 加强；巩固
vi. 变强；变坚挺

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Meals are the foundation of the family, says Carole Counihan, a professor at Millersville University in Pennsylvania, so there was a very important interconnection between eating together and strengthening family ties.

She suggests that humans have always tried to strengthen the pair-bond to maximise (使最大化) reproductive success.

It will help strengthen their emotional bonds

Along with this effort, we're working with animal advocates and state and federal lawmakers to strengthen anti-cruelty laws across the country, as well as supporting laws and policies that assist overburdened animal shelters that care for animal fighting

At a time when young beauty shoppers are often turning to Sephora or Ulta instead of department store beauty counters, Macy's hopes Bluemercury will help strengthen its position in the category.

That could be another explanation for why companies seem to be strengthening their talk of the practicality of their devices.

Generous parental leave policies and readily available part-time options have unintended consequences:instead of strengthening women's attachment to the workplace,they appear to weaken it.

Ask the administration or the Republicans or most academics why America needs more manufacturing, and they respond that manufacturing gives birth to innovation, brings down the trade deficit, strengthens the dollar, generates jobs, arms the military and brings about a recovery from recession.

In the America of our own time, the great educational challenge has become an effort to strengthen the teaching of what is now known as the STEM disciplines (science, technology, engineering, and math).

Moreover they site several advantages: alleviation of school overcrowding, strengthen family relationships, lower dropout rates, the facts that students are allowed to learn at their own rate, increased motivation, higher standardized test scores, and reduced discipline problems.

Additional protein was found to help strengthen the muscles of overweight seniors seeking weight loss.

Ego aside, a third advantage is that the emotional neutrality of indifferent relationships has been found to enhance critical evaluation, to strengthen one's focus on task resolution, and to gain greater access to valuable information.

Data can strengthen giants' controlling position.

For example, people volunteer to express personal values related to unselfishness, to expand their range of experiences, and to strengthen social relationships.

Gossip also can have a third effect: It strengthens unwritten, unspoken rules about how people should act.

Items like T-shirts that allow volunteers to be recognized publicly for their contributions can help strengthen role identity.

One idea is that sleep helps us strengthen new memories.

The likables' plays-well-with-others qualities strengthen schoolyard friendships, jump-start interpersonal skills and, when tapped early, are employed ever after in life and work.

The publication of great expectations, which was both widely reviewed and highly praised, strengthened Dickens, status as a leading novelist.

To avoid knee pain, you can run on soft surfaces, do exercises to strengthen your leg muscles, avoid hills and get good running shoes.

Conversations are links, which means when you have a conversation with a new person a link gets formed and every conversation you have after that moment will strengthen the link.