这属于词性转化现象:英语形容词转化为动词。
形容词也能转化为动词, 但不及名词转化为动词那样常见。语义也比较简单, 多半带有“使令意味”。一般可转换为:make + 宾语 + 同源形容词。
例如:
We must better our living conditions = We must make our living conditions better.
我们必须改善我们的生活条件。
He busies himself with writing a novel.
他忙于写一本小说。
Living in the countryside has narrowed him.
住在乡下使他的眼光变得短浅。
常见的这类形容词如下:
better (使更好; 变好),
cool (使冷确; 变冷),
dirty (弄脏; 变脏),
dry (使干燥; 变干),
empty (腾空; 倒空),
busy (使忙于),
narrow (变窄),
idle (混日子; 闲逛),
quiet (安慰; 静下来),
right (改正错误; 竖直),
slow (放慢;慢下来),
smooth (使平滑;变平),
warm (使暖和; 变温暖),
wet (使湿; 变湿)
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The app uses patterns as well as games to train the user 's brains to better process images.
更正下面句子
The app uses patterns as well as games to train the user 's brain to better process images.
以上属于“词的转化法”形容词转化为动词。
少数形容词可以转化为动词。
We will try our best to better our living conditions.
我们要尽力改善我们的生活状况。
better动词用法
(1)vt.超越;胜过;超出
He recorded a time of 4 minutes 23, bettering the old record of 4-24.
他用时4分23秒,刷新了4分24秒的原纪录。
As an account of adolescence it could hardly be bettered.
作为描写青春期的书,它已几臻完美。
(2)vt.提高;改善
He had dedicated his life to bettering the lot of the oppressed people of South Africa.
他毕生致力于改变南非受压迫人民的命运。
Our parents chose to come here with the hope of bettering themselves.
我们的父母选择来到这里,希望能够改善自己的生活。
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