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whetvt.
1.sharpen,make keen 磨快，使锋利。
△2H.IV.4.5.105(106): “Thou hidest a thousand daggers in thythoughts,/ Which thou hast whetted on thy stonyheart / To stab at half an hour of my life.”你的思想中藏着一千把刀子，在你那铁石的心上磨快，向着我这只剩半小时的生命刺杀。
△R.III.1.3.244 (243): “Fool. fool,thouwhet’st a knife to kill thyself.”蠢材，蠢材，你不过是把刀磨快杀你自己。
△Ham.3.4.109 (110):“This visitation /Is but to whet thy almost blunted purpose.”我这次来只是为了要磨砺你的几乎变钝的决心。
2. provoke,excite,incite,instigate 激发，使激动，煽动，挑唆。
△Tw.3.1.17 (105): “Madam. I come to whetyour gentle thoughts / On his behalf.”小姐，我正是为他挑逗你的情思而来的。
△ H. VIII.3.2.92 (91):“May be hehears the King / Does whet his anger to him.”也许他听说国王要对他发脾气了。
3. urge. stimulate 催促，激励。
△ R.III.1.3.332(331):“Now they believe it. and withal whet me / To be re-venged on Rivers. Dorset. Grey.”现在他们都相信了，而且还催促我向利佛斯、道尔赛特、葛雷报仇。(按： Dorset 又作Vaughan “伏根”，王后的另一亲信之名。)Phrase:
whet on: encourage,excite,stimulate,instigate 鼓励，激发，激励，挑唆。
△ 2H.VI.2.1.32: “I prithee peace.good queen,/ And whet not on these furious peers；”我请你不要开口，好王后，不要再挑动这两位正发火的贵族。
△ 3H.VI.1.2.36: “Brother. thou shalt to Londonpresently. / And whet on Warwick to this enter-prise.”兄弟，你立刻到伦敦去，激励沃里克进行此事。 |