1.磨,磨快
2.刺激,加强,助长(食欲,好奇心等)
1.研磨
2.开胃物,一杯酒;刺激物,激励
3.〈方〉一段(短)时间(的工作)
1.if you whet a blade, you make it sharper using a whetstone
1.I read a brief extract of his new novel on the train and it has rather whetted my appetite for it.
我在火车上读了他的新小说的一个简短摘录，它激起了我的强烈兴趣。
2.Such sentiments are helping to put the kibosh on the risk appetite whetted by the EU bailout announcement over the weekend.
此类气氛有助于彻底打消欧盟周末宣布的救助计划激发出来的冒险欲望。
3.Somehow all this anguish and excitement, all the grief and histrionics, only whetted my appetite.
不知怎么搞的，她所有这些痛苦和激动、所有的悲伤和做作只是激发了我的欲望。
4.The men hold huge cleavers, which are in a few strokes whetted to razor sharpness on nearby rocks.
这几个男人拿着大砍刀，把这些砍刀在附近的岩石上磨得象剃刀一样锋利。
5.One of my teachers lent me a book about climbing, and it really whetted my appetite.
我的一位教师借给我一本登山方面的书，引起了我极大的兴趣。
6.His unexpectedly decisive victory over the French at Agincourt in 1415 whetted his appetite for the crown of France as well.
1415年，亨利六世在阿让库尔攻打法国，取得出其不意的决定性胜利，刺激了他获得法国王冠的愿望。
7.he whetted her appetite to stay in the company by supplying high salary.
他通过给高薪使她乐意继续留在公司干。
8.When the bear saw this, his appetite was whetted and he wanted some nuts as well.
熊看着小裁缝吃核桃，也被激起食欲，他也想吃一些核桃。
9.Far from satiating voters' thirst for blood, the speaker's decapitation may have whetted it.
选民的嗜血心态远远未得到满足，议长的撤换只是进一步刺激了这一渴望。
10.As the stimulus forced down interest rates, it eventually whetted investors' appetite for riskier assets like stocks.
随着刺激措施迫使利率下降，投资者最终对像股票这样的风险较高的资产，产生了兴趣。