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单词 enrich
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Definition of enrich in English:

enrich

verb ɛnˈrɪtʃɪnˈrɪtʃ
[with object]
  • 1Improve or enhance the quality or value of.

    her exposure to museums enriched her life in France
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Although your career may ultimately lead you to different parts of world, your network of friends and colleagues in the community will serve to enrich the quality of the life you lead.
    • These students complete a rigorous training program that prepares them to serve for six weeks as Museum guides, thereby enriching the Museum experience for the thousands of children who visit it each summer.
    • An improved dissemination of law can increase efficiency, reduce costs and expand access to law, while also enriching the quality of justice obtained.
    • Their aim is to improve and enrich the education of children and to support the involvement of parents in their children's education.
    • All of these approaches are capable of enriching our understanding of accounting history.
    • A man of such fine qualities, he enriched the lives of so many.
    • You share your wisdom and experience with others and enrich the quality of your work and relationships.
    • For it has greatly enriched the quality of life of hundreds of thousands of young girls.
    • Promote efforts to increase the diversity of faculty members and students at colleges and universities as a means to improve and enrich the experience of higher education.
    • The goal would be to improve body composition, increase muscle strength and enrich the quality of life.
    • The teacher found that these techniques enriched learning for all members of the class.
    • Thus they need more accurate information about other groups and an understanding of the value of diversity in enriching a society.
    • She gave them from her maturity and freedom, a quality of life that enriched them with dignity, hope and courage.
    • There is great diversity of perspectives, and the debate between them enriches academic inquiry and improves the general knowledge base.
    • He's going away to some foreign country to enrich his knowledge of other cultures.
    • Sport enriches life's experience, physical exercise improves health, and in this country we need far more investment in both.
    • A new way to govern is required to enrich democracy while improving efficiency and effectiveness.
    • The listener will be enriched immeasurably by the experience.
    • Chapter Ten, ‘Action Research,’ is about the research you do on your own teaching with the purpose of enhancing and enriching your awareness and skills as a teacher.
    • It plays a very important part in Irish society and greatly enriches all our lives.
    Synonyms
    enhance, make richer, improve, add to, augment, supplement, complement, boost, upgrade, reinforce
    raise, lift, refine, polish, heighten, deepen, elevate, aggrandize, intensify, exalt
    make more nutritious, improve, vitaminize
    fertilize, add fertilizer to, make more fertile, improve
    compost, dung, manure, mulch, dress
    1. 1.1 Add to the nutritive value of (food) by adding vitamins or nutrients.
      porridge oats enriched with extra oat bran
      Example sentencesExamples
      • In order to compensate, 90 percent of American companies enrich white rice with powdered nutrients, in an attempt to replace some of what they took out.
      • Surface fires then are lit to kill off saplings, reduce fuel loads, enrich the soil with nutrients, and bring fire back to the forest.
      • To address the deficiency problem, food manufacturers enrich flour, maize, and rice and fortify breakfast cereals with iron.
      • One of the factories made malt syrup enriched with vitamins and minerals, which was for pregnant women.
      • Despite the fact that soils beneath shrubs were enriched in nutrients, soil fertility effects appear to be overshadowed by the effects of shade.
      • Breads and cereals can also be a decent source since most flour is enriched with calcium.
      • Some brands of eggs are also enriched with omega-3.
      • Most bread, pasta, and other grains are enriched with folic acid, too, and a multivitamin supplies a day's worth of this critical nutrient.
      • Japanese scientists have also succeeded in enriching the rice grain with iron.
      • Dahlias planted in soil enriched with compost rarely, if ever, need supplemental fertilizer.
    2. 1.2usually as adjective enriched Increase the proportion of a particular isotope in (an element), especially that of the fissile isotope U-235 in uranium, so as to make it more powerful or explosive.
      enriched uranium
      Example sentencesExamples
      • One is to use highly enriched uranium; the other is to use plutonium.
      • It is the metal that is left over after uranium is enriched for use in nuclear reactors.
      • Especially the part of their nuclear program that was dedicated to enrichment, to producing the highly enriched uranium needed for the fissile core of a nuclear device.
      • Conversion is the first step in making enriched uranium that can be nuclear reactor fuel or atom bomb material.
      • They concluded on Wednesday that the country is getting ready to produce enough enriched uranium for four nuclear weapons.
      • Uranium for the first atomic bomb and for nuclear reactors was enriched in the 235 isotope, as compared to the more abundant 238 isotope, by gaseous diffusion.
      • He says that several kilograms of highly enriched uranium recently changed hands in Prague.
      • It wants to produce enriched uranium to power nuclear reactors, not to build nuclear weapons.
      • If he has to develop fissile materials himself, like enriched uranium, they estimate it takes five to seven years to do that through the gas centrifuge process.
      • We had a highly enriched uranium, up to 90 % enriched uranium 235.
      • He urged the international community to adopt measures to control sensitive parts of the nuclear fuel cycle, which he listed as enriched uranium and the reprocessing of plutonium.
      • The development of nuclear weapons using enriched uranium began in 1999.
      • Uranium enriched to low grades is used for fuel in nuclear reactors, but further enrichment makes it suitable for atomic bombs.
      • As a general rule, however, the biggest hurdle for a would-be nuclear power is the acquisition of fissile material - enriched uranium or plutonium.
      • The major limiting step is acquisition of the fissile material either enriched uranium or plutonium.
      • Highly enriched uranium can be used to make weapons while uranium enriched to lower levels is used to produce energy.
      • Plutonium and highly enriched uranium and other heavy fissionable isotopes fall into this category, but tritium does not.
      • Uranium enriched to low levels can be used as fuel in nuclear reactors to generate electricity, but further enrichment makes it suitable for use in nuclear weapons.
      • It has also denied U.S. allegations that it possesses highly enriched uranium for nuclear arms.
      • They are expert in producing the highly enriched uranium and plutonium that provide the explosive power.
  • 2Make (someone) wealthy or wealthier.

    top party members had enriched themselves
    Example sentencesExamples
    • All that did was prop up the company that never made much commercial success anyway for a few more years, enriching a few people on the way.
    • Put it in stark terms and industrial workers, poorly paid, are asked to enrich young men who are already very wealthy.
    • The majority of people have experienced falling incomes and living standards while a relatively narrow layer of the upper classes have enriched themselves at the expense of others.
    • In such a situation no individual is any longer penalized and none is unjustly enriched.
    • The propensity for people enriched by capital gains to borrow and spend is gradually diminishing.
    • Tax policy must be stood on its head: from a means of plundering the people to enrich the millionaires and big business, it must become the instrument for a radical redistribution of wealth.
    • The probe centres on the 3,500 partnerships and other affiliates created by the company to hide debt, inflate profits, push up share values and enrich top executives.
    • Remember, he was an MP for a government who had passed the legislation with the express intention of enabling poorer people to become homeowners, not to further enrich millionaires.
    • But investment by many of our multinationals has not enriched its people but impoverished them.
    • I am not in the business of trying to enrich people who would like to sit in the middle as bureaucrats, as sort of quasi-political business people.

Origin

Late Middle English (in the sense 'make wealthy'): from Old French enrichir, from en- 'in' + riche 'rich'.

Rhymes

bewitch, bitch, ditch, fitch, flitch, glitch, hitch, itch, kitsch, Mitch, pitch, quitch, rich, snitch, stitch, switch, titch, twitch, which, witch
 
 

Definition of enrich in US English:

enrich

verb
[with object]
  • 1Improve or enhance the quality or value of.

    her exposure to museums enriched her life in France
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Sport enriches life's experience, physical exercise improves health, and in this country we need far more investment in both.
    • An improved dissemination of law can increase efficiency, reduce costs and expand access to law, while also enriching the quality of justice obtained.
    • He's going away to some foreign country to enrich his knowledge of other cultures.
    • There is great diversity of perspectives, and the debate between them enriches academic inquiry and improves the general knowledge base.
    • Although your career may ultimately lead you to different parts of world, your network of friends and colleagues in the community will serve to enrich the quality of the life you lead.
    • It plays a very important part in Irish society and greatly enriches all our lives.
    • A man of such fine qualities, he enriched the lives of so many.
    • These students complete a rigorous training program that prepares them to serve for six weeks as Museum guides, thereby enriching the Museum experience for the thousands of children who visit it each summer.
    • The teacher found that these techniques enriched learning for all members of the class.
    • For it has greatly enriched the quality of life of hundreds of thousands of young girls.
    • She gave them from her maturity and freedom, a quality of life that enriched them with dignity, hope and courage.
    • You share your wisdom and experience with others and enrich the quality of your work and relationships.
    • A new way to govern is required to enrich democracy while improving efficiency and effectiveness.
    • Thus they need more accurate information about other groups and an understanding of the value of diversity in enriching a society.
    • Chapter Ten, ‘Action Research,’ is about the research you do on your own teaching with the purpose of enhancing and enriching your awareness and skills as a teacher.
    • Promote efforts to increase the diversity of faculty members and students at colleges and universities as a means to improve and enrich the experience of higher education.
    • All of these approaches are capable of enriching our understanding of accounting history.
    • Their aim is to improve and enrich the education of children and to support the involvement of parents in their children's education.
    • The goal would be to improve body composition, increase muscle strength and enrich the quality of life.
    • The listener will be enriched immeasurably by the experience.
    Synonyms
    enhance, make richer, improve, add to, augment, supplement, complement, boost, upgrade, reinforce
    make more nutritious, improve, vitaminize
    fertilize, add fertilizer to, make more fertile, improve
    1. 1.1 Add to the nutritive value of (food) by adding vitamins or nutrients.
      cereal enriched with extra oat bran
      Example sentencesExamples
      • One of the factories made malt syrup enriched with vitamins and minerals, which was for pregnant women.
      • Japanese scientists have also succeeded in enriching the rice grain with iron.
      • In order to compensate, 90 percent of American companies enrich white rice with powdered nutrients, in an attempt to replace some of what they took out.
      • Despite the fact that soils beneath shrubs were enriched in nutrients, soil fertility effects appear to be overshadowed by the effects of shade.
      • To address the deficiency problem, food manufacturers enrich flour, maize, and rice and fortify breakfast cereals with iron.
      • Most bread, pasta, and other grains are enriched with folic acid, too, and a multivitamin supplies a day's worth of this critical nutrient.
      • Surface fires then are lit to kill off saplings, reduce fuel loads, enrich the soil with nutrients, and bring fire back to the forest.
      • Dahlias planted in soil enriched with compost rarely, if ever, need supplemental fertilizer.
      • Some brands of eggs are also enriched with omega-3.
      • Breads and cereals can also be a decent source since most flour is enriched with calcium.
    2. 1.2usually as adjective enriched Increase the proportion of a particular isotope in (an element), especially that of the fissile isotope U-235 in uranium, so as to make it more powerful or explosive.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • One is to use highly enriched uranium; the other is to use plutonium.
      • It has also denied U.S. allegations that it possesses highly enriched uranium for nuclear arms.
      • We had a highly enriched uranium, up to 90 % enriched uranium 235.
      • They are expert in producing the highly enriched uranium and plutonium that provide the explosive power.
      • They concluded on Wednesday that the country is getting ready to produce enough enriched uranium for four nuclear weapons.
      • Especially the part of their nuclear program that was dedicated to enrichment, to producing the highly enriched uranium needed for the fissile core of a nuclear device.
      • Plutonium and highly enriched uranium and other heavy fissionable isotopes fall into this category, but tritium does not.
      • Conversion is the first step in making enriched uranium that can be nuclear reactor fuel or atom bomb material.
      • He urged the international community to adopt measures to control sensitive parts of the nuclear fuel cycle, which he listed as enriched uranium and the reprocessing of plutonium.
      • Uranium for the first atomic bomb and for nuclear reactors was enriched in the 235 isotope, as compared to the more abundant 238 isotope, by gaseous diffusion.
      • It wants to produce enriched uranium to power nuclear reactors, not to build nuclear weapons.
      • Highly enriched uranium can be used to make weapons while uranium enriched to lower levels is used to produce energy.
      • The major limiting step is acquisition of the fissile material either enriched uranium or plutonium.
      • If he has to develop fissile materials himself, like enriched uranium, they estimate it takes five to seven years to do that through the gas centrifuge process.
      • Uranium enriched to low grades is used for fuel in nuclear reactors, but further enrichment makes it suitable for atomic bombs.
      • The development of nuclear weapons using enriched uranium began in 1999.
      • He says that several kilograms of highly enriched uranium recently changed hands in Prague.
      • Uranium enriched to low levels can be used as fuel in nuclear reactors to generate electricity, but further enrichment makes it suitable for use in nuclear weapons.
      • It is the metal that is left over after uranium is enriched for use in nuclear reactors.
      • As a general rule, however, the biggest hurdle for a would-be nuclear power is the acquisition of fissile material - enriched uranium or plutonium.
    3. 1.3Architecture Embellish a molding by carving or otherwise forming a sculpted, ornamental pattern, such as egg and dart.
      one may enrich the echinus of a Doric capital with the egg and dart motif
  • 2Make (someone) wealthy or wealthier.

    top party members had enriched themselves
    Example sentencesExamples
    • I am not in the business of trying to enrich people who would like to sit in the middle as bureaucrats, as sort of quasi-political business people.
    • Put it in stark terms and industrial workers, poorly paid, are asked to enrich young men who are already very wealthy.
    • All that did was prop up the company that never made much commercial success anyway for a few more years, enriching a few people on the way.
    • Remember, he was an MP for a government who had passed the legislation with the express intention of enabling poorer people to become homeowners, not to further enrich millionaires.
    • Tax policy must be stood on its head: from a means of plundering the people to enrich the millionaires and big business, it must become the instrument for a radical redistribution of wealth.
    • But investment by many of our multinationals has not enriched its people but impoverished them.
    • The majority of people have experienced falling incomes and living standards while a relatively narrow layer of the upper classes have enriched themselves at the expense of others.
    • The propensity for people enriched by capital gains to borrow and spend is gradually diminishing.
    • The probe centres on the 3,500 partnerships and other affiliates created by the company to hide debt, inflate profits, push up share values and enrich top executives.
    • In such a situation no individual is any longer penalized and none is unjustly enriched.

Origin

Late Middle English (in the sense ‘make wealthy’): from Old French enrichir, from en- ‘in’ + riche ‘rich’.

 
 
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