improve

英 [ɪm'pruːv] 美 [ɪm'pruːv]

• vt. 改善；改进；提高
• vi. 变得更好；改进

双解释义

v. (动词)

1. vi. & vt. 改善,改进,提高

   (cause to) become better

详尽释义

v. 动词

1. 增进，增加，提高，增高
2. 利用（价值），活用
3. 变得更好，改善，改良，改进，变好，使更好
4. 提高（土地，地产的）价值，升值
5. 改建
6. 抓紧（时间）

英英释义

Verb:

1. to make better;

   "The editor improved the manuscript with his changes"
   

2. get better;

   "The weather improved toward evening"
   

例句

用作及物动词 (vt.)

1. Your work will get by, but try to improve it.
   你的工作勉强通过了,但要设法改善它。
2. He offered a suggestion to improve the plan.
   他提出一个建议,以改进那项计划。
3. I want to improve my English.
   我想提高我的英语水平。

用作不及物动词 (vi.)

1. Wine improves with age.
   酒存放得越久越醇。
2. I hope the weather will improve before Friday.
   我希望星期五之前天气会好转。
3. His manners will improve with age.
   随着年龄的增长
4. This game is our baby so we want to constantly improve on it.
   这个游戏是我们的孩子,我们当然想持续改进它。

常见句型

用作动词 (v.)

用作不及物动词

S+～(+A)

1. I hope for the weather to improve soon.
   我希望天气会很快转好。
2. Wine improves with age.
   酒越陈越好。
3. Her spelling has improved.
   她的拼写能力已有长进。
4. Your mastery of the language has much improved.
   你对语言的掌握有很大的进步。
5. The situation has improved somewhat.
   情况已有所改善。
6. The patient has improved slightly since the operation.
   病人手术后已稍有好转。
7. A successful businessman is one who knows when to cut his losses, and when to hang on in the hope that things will improve.
   一个成功的生意人知道什么时候该削价出售,什么时候该掌握在手,以待情况好转。
8. It is unfair to criticize him so soon after he has started. After a week when he has got into his stride,I am sure his work will improve.
   他才开始工作就这么急于批评他是不公平的,当他一个星期以后熟悉了工作时,我相信他会做得大有起色的。
9. My health is improving.
   我的健康状况正在好转。
10. The demand for television sets is improving.
    对电视机的需求量正在增加。
11. Her English is improving this term.
    这一学期,她的英语有进步。

用作及物动词

S+～+ n./pron.

1. We would snatch at every chance to improve our work.
   我们应抓住每个机会来改进我们的工作。
2. He undertook to improve the working arrangements.
   他答应改善工作安排。
3. We must make massive efforts to improve our environment.
   我们一定要尽最大的努力来改善环境。
4. The three clubs joined up to improve the town's playground facilities.
   三家俱乐部联合起来共同改善镇上运动场的设施。
5. I integrated your suggestion into my plans and it improved them.
   我把你的建议纳入我的计划中,这些计划进一步完善了。
6. The machine improves the working conditions and raises efficiency five times.
   这台机器改善了劳动条件,并使工效提高了4倍。
7. It isn't quite good enough,I want to improve it.
   这还不够好,我要改进一下。
8. The workers made shift with what was on hand to improve the machine.
   工人们尽力设法利用现有材料来改进机器。
9. He decided to cut the plants back, in order to improve their growth later in the season.
   他决定进行剪枝,以便使作物在季节后期长得更好。
10. The doctor gave some advice on how to improve our health.
    医生就如何增进健康,向我们提了一些建议。
11. We'll try our best to improve the friendship between our two countries.
    我们将尽最大努力增进我们两国之间的友谊。
12. Never chuck up a chance to improve your French.
    千万不要错过任何一个提高你法语水平的机会。
13. I began to come along well in English after I improved my study methods.
    改进了学习方法以后,我的英语开始有所进步。
14. He invested a lot of time and effort in trying to improve his listening comprehension.
    他花了许多时间和精力努力提高他的听力理解能力。
15. You'll never improve your piano playing unless you keep at it.
    除非你坚持练习,否则,你的钢琴演奏水平就永远提高不了。
16. You will be helped to improve your English.
    有人将会帮助你提高英语水平。
17. Computer Aided Instruction is widely adopted to improve teaching effects.
    计算机辅助教学被广泛采用以提高教学效果。
18. The government is making every effort to improve the people's living standard.
    政府在尽一切努力提高人民的生活水平。
19. His whole energies are dedicated to improving the design.
    他的全部精力都放在改进这项设计上了。

其他

v -ed as Attrib.

1. Half of these plots is devoted to raising improved seeds.
   这些土地的一半被用来培育良种。

经典引文

• The Roman army improved the victory of their fleet by..marching to Egesta.

  出自： Bosworth Smith

• He..had been improving the time in prison by collecting examples..of other parodists.

  出自： E. P. Thompson

常用短语

用作动词 (v.)

improve in (v.+prep.)

在…有所提高 (cause to) become better with regard to
improve in sth
He's going to improve in his first book.

他打算把他的第一部书修改一下。
He has much improved in health.

他的健康状况大有改善。 improve oneself/sth in sth/v-ing
He tried his best to improve his marks in school.

他尽自己的最大努力来提高成绩。
They were working out a plan to improve themselves in the way of research.

他们正在制定一套计划以改进他们的研究方法。

improve on〔upon〕 (v.+prep.)

在…上加以提高 produce sth better than
improve on〔upon〕 sth
I am able to improve on this plan.

我能改进这个计划。
This singer will have to improve on the performance we have just heard if she is to be accepted by the company.

如果这位歌手想让公司雇用她的话,就必须拿出比我们刚才所听到的更好的节目来。
He has improved upon her poem.

他对他的诗做了改进。
The poem cannot be improved upon.

这首诗再好不过。

词汇搭配

用作动词 (v.)

～+名词

• improve conditions 改善条件
• improve English 提高英语水平
• improve every moment 珍惜每一刻光阴
• improve farm tool 改进农具
• improve health 增进健康
• improve image 提高形象
• improve intonation 改进语调
• improve leisure by studying 利用空闲时间学习
• improve living standard 提高生活水平
• improve occasion 利用机会
• improve opportunity 利用机会
• improve plan 改进计划
• improve pronunciation 改进发音
• improve properties 改进性能
• improve quality 提高质量
• improve scores 提高分数
• improve service 提高服务质量
• improve shining hour 利用机会
• improve situation 改善不利条件
• improve vocabulary 扩大词汇量

～+副词

• improve hardly 无可改进
• improve aggressively 盛气凌人地改进
• improve beneficently 有益地改进
• improve blindly 盲目地改进
• improve boldly 大胆改进
• improve bravely 勇敢地改进
• improve casually 非正式地改进
• improve cautiously 谨慎地改进
• improve completely 彻底改进
• improve consciously 有意识地改进
• improve constantly 不断地改进
• improve courteously 谦恭地改进
• improve creatively 创造性地改进
• improve educationally 教育改进
• improve erratically 不规律地改进
• improve eventually 最终改进
• improve greatly 大大地改进
• improve immediately 立即改进
• improve magnanimously 大度地改进
• improve provisionally 暂且改进
• improve quietly 悄悄地改进
• improve radically 激进地改进
• improve rapidly 迅速改进
• improve readily 欣然改进
• improve reasonably 明智地改进
• improve recklessly 轻率地改进
• improve reluctantly 勉强改进
• improve scarcely 很少改进
• improve simultaneously 同时改进
• improve sincerely 诚恳地改进
• improve skeptically 心存怀疑地改进
• improve slavishly 盲从地改进
• improve slightly 稍稍好转
• improve slowly 缓慢地改进
• improve speedily 加快速度改进
• improve steadily 不断提高
• improve temperately 适度地改进
• improve timidly 胆怯地改进
• improve unexpectedly 出乎意外地改进
• improve unhesitatingly 即刻改进
• improve universally 普遍改进
• improve unwisely 不明智地改进
• improve vigorously 有力改进
• improve warily 谨慎地改进
• improve wholly 完全改进

～+介词

• improve in 在…方面有起色,有进步
• improve in health 健康状况有所改善
• improve sth into an excuse 利用某事作为借口
• improve on〔upon〕 生产出
• improve on the first book 写出比第一本更好的书
• improve on the performance 表演出更好的节目

词语用法

1. improve跟improve upon的区别：前者指的的是“在好或不好的基础上进行修改，改进”，而后者则是指“在好的基础再更进一步”。

   This poem cannot be improved.
   这首诗太好或太坏，以致于不能修改了。

   This poem cannot be improved upon.
   这首诗好得不能再好了。

2. improve跟better的区别：前者指的是大方面的，或是人物内在的提高，以及比较抽象的事物的提高，如improve one's health。后者指的是人的地位，物质或经济条件上的提高，如better the conditions of the workers（工人生活条件的提高）；
3. 在使用improved同improving时要特别注意，避免误用improved而形成被动语态。

v. (动词)

1. improve的基本意思为“改善,提高”,可指健康状况、环境、形势等,也可指具体事物,还可间或指人。强调部分地或某种程度上对客体加以修补改正,以提高到较高水平或使其更受欢迎。本词不用于坏的事物变好,也不用于变得十分完美,无以复加。
2. improve用作及物动词时可接名词或代词作宾语,但不用于被动结构; 用作不及物动词时主动形式常含有被动意义。
3. improve后常接反身代词表示“在知识或学问上有进步”,其后常接介词in。
4. improve常和表示程度的副词连用。

词义辨析

v. (动词)

improve in, improve on〔upon〕

• 1.前者表示“本身在…方面有改进”,后者主要指“对…加以改进”。
• 2.improve on多接实物名词; 而improve in多接名词或动名词。
• 3.improve in多用进行时或完成时态,而improve on多用一般时态。

improve, improve on〔upon〕

• improve和improve on都可接宾语,意思是“使…有长进或提高”。improve指在原有的基础上加以改进。而improve on则用于另一事物,即创造新的,比原来更好的事物。试比较:
• I can improve this poem.
• 我可以把这首诗改得更好。
• I can improve on this poem.
• 我可以再写一首超过这首的另一首诗。
• I can improve upon her poem.
• 我能作一首比她好的诗。(用于另一事物)

improve, better

• improve与better意思相近,都指在原有基础上改进得更好。其区别是：
• 1.在提高的速度和水平上, improve比better更快更高。
• 2.better比improve更有生气和亲切感。
• 3.better和improve都可接反身代词再接介词in,前者指某人的社会经济地位向好的方面发展,后者指本身向更好的方面变化。例如:
• He has bettered himself in living condition.他的生活条件已大有改善。
• I wish to improve myself in drawing.但愿我在绘画方面有所长进。

improve，better，perfect，refine

• 这些动词均有“改进、改善”之意。
• improve最常用词，多指状态或性质上的深刻或重要改进，也可指自身能力的提高。
• better多用于口语，指适当地改善原来并非很差的状态或性质，也指社会地位、经济状况的改善。
• perfect语义强，通常指使方法、技术等达到完善美好的境地。
• refine侧重指使语言、仪态等变得文雅、优美，也可指技艺等的提高。

常见错误

v. (动词)

1. 我提不出比这更好的建议。

   误 I am unable to improve the suggestion.

   正 I am unable to improve on the suggestion.

   析 improve用作及物动词,表示“改善或改进”。如表示“作出比…更好的东西”,应该说 improve on〔upon〕…,此时, improve是不及物动词。

2. 我们希望改进我们的工作。

   误 We wish to improve our work better.

   正 We wish to improve our work.

   析 improve的意思是“改进,使更好(make better)”,已包含better之义,再加上个better,即属赘余。

词源解说

• ☆ 15世纪晚期进入英语，直接源自盎格鲁法语的emprouwer，意为使获利，使受益。

近反义词

【近义词】

• advance
• better
• reform

【反义词】

• decline
• diminish