keenness

1. ADJ-GRADED 渴望的；热切的；热衷的
   If you are keen on doing something, you very much want to do it. If you are keen that something should happen, you very much want it to happen.
   1. You're not keen on going, are you?...
      你不太想去，是吗？
   2. Both companies were keen on a merger...
      两家公司都很想合并。
   3. I'm very keen that the European Union should be as open as possible to trade from Russia...
      我热切地希望欧盟尽可能开放与俄罗斯的贸易。
   4. She's still keen to keep in touch...
      她仍旧很愿意保持联系。
   5. I am not keen for her to have a bicycle.
      我不太放心她有辆自行车。
2. ADJ-GRADED （对…）喜爱的，满怀热情的
   If you are keen on something, you like it a lot and are very enthusiastic about it.
   1. I got quite keen on the idea...
      我对这个想法燃起了极大的热情。
   2. I wasn't too keen on physics and chemistry.
      我对物理和化学不是太感喜爱。
3. ADJ-GRADED (对某一活动)热情的，热心的
   You use keen to indicate that someone has a lot of enthusiasm for a particular activity and spends a lot of time doing it.
   1. She was a keen amateur photographer.
      她是业余摄影爱好者。
4. ADJ-GRADED (人)生性热情的，兴趣广博的
   If you describe someone as keen, you mean that they have an enthusiastic nature and are interested in everything that they do.
   1. He's a very keen student and works very hard...
      他是个很好学的学生，学习非常努力。
   2. You're all very keen.
      你们都很热心。
5. ADJ-GRADED （兴趣或感情）浓厚的，强烈的
   A keen interest or emotion is one that is very intense.
   1. He had retained a keen interest in the progress of the work.
      他对那项工作的进展一直很关心。
   2. ...his keen sense of loyalty.
      他强烈的忠诚感
6. ADJ-GRADED （支持）热情的，积极的
   If you are a keen supporter of a cause, movement, or idea, you support it enthusiastically.
   1. He's been a keen supporter of the Labour Party all his life...
      他一生都是工党的热情拥护者。
   2. He is a keen advocate of park-and-ride schemes.
      他是“停车再换乘”计划的热情拥护者。
7. ADJ-GRADED 思维敏捷的；机灵的；机智的
   If you say that someone has a keen mind, you mean that they are very clever and aware of what is happening around them.
   1. They described him as a man of keen intellect...
      他们把他描述成一个才思敏捷的人。
   2. Mr Walsh has a keen appreciation of the priorities of the electorate...
      沃尔什先生深刻理解选民最为关注的事项。
   3. I can see you have a keen sense of humour.
      我能看出你极具幽默感。
8. ADJ-GRADED （目光或听觉）灵敏的，敏锐的
   If you have a keen eye or ear, you are able to notice things that are difficult to detect.
   1. ...an amateur artist with a keen eye for detail...
      对细节非常敏感的业余画家
   2. Brand's keen ear caught the trace of an accent.
      布兰德敏锐的耳朵听出了口音。
9. ADJ-GRADED （对某人）倾心的,迷恋的
   If you are keen on someone, you find them sexually attractive and want to get to know them better.
   1. Mick has always been very keen on Carla.
      米克一直迷恋卡拉。
10. ADJ-GRADED （战斗或竞争）激烈的，紧张的
    A keen fight or competition is one in which the competitors are all trying very hard to win, and it is not easy to predict who will win.
    1. There is expected to be a keen fight in the local elections.
       预计地方选举的竞争会非常激烈。
11. ADJ-GRADED （价格）低廉的，有竞争力的
    Keen prices are low and competitive.
    1. The company negotiates very keen prices with their suppliers.
       该公司通过讨价还价从供货商那里拿到了很低的价格。
12. VERB （为死者）恸哭，哀号
    If someone keens, they cry out or make sounds to express their sorrow at someone's death.
    1. He tossed back his head and keened...
       他仰天恸哭起来。
    2. Someone was making a low, keening noise.
       有人正在低声哀泣。
13. PHRASE 对…十分热衷；对…非常热情
    If you say that someone is mad keen on something, you are emphasizing that they are very enthusiastic about it.
    1. So you're not mad keen on science then?...
       那么你对科学并不是太感兴趣了？
    2. She was mad keen to go.
       她非常想去。
    3. ...a mad keen golfer.
       高尔夫发烧友

1. Her keenness for sport soon yieled place to an interest in music.
   她对音乐的兴趣很快替代了她对体育运动的热心。
2. A good teacher should be able to infect his students with his own keenness for his subject.
   一个好教师应能以自己对本学科的热爱来影响学生。
3. A few weeks'hard work should damp down his keenness.
   几星期的艰苦工作减弱了他的热情。
4. We should live each day with gentleness, vigor and a keenness of appreciation which are often lost when time stretches before us in the constant panorama of more days and months and years to come.
   但当时间以无休止的日月年在我们面前流逝时，我们却常常没有了这种感觉。
5. That complicates the job of publicity-hungry business owners, by dictating that a keenness to communicate is interpreted as a symptom of having nothing to say.
   这让那些喜欢曝光的企业老板感到难办，因为按照记者的逻辑，急于沟通是无话可说的症状。
6. He argued with great acuteness; I admired the keenness of his mind.
   那青年能言善辩，充分反映他思想敏锐。
7. Exhaustion that affects mental keenness.
   影响智力敏捷的疲惫。
8. The scabbard content to be dull when it protects the keenness of the sword.
   刀鞘在保护刀的锋利时，自己也满足于它的驽钝。
9. Keenness was a good start.
   激情是好的开始。
10. The scabbard is content to the dull when it protects the keenness of the word.
    剑鞘保护着剑的锋利，却满足于它自己的迟钝。
11. St John approved of my keenness to work, and promised to find me some paid employment.
    圣约翰赞同我对工作的迫切要求，答应帮我找份挣钱的工作。
12. I appreciate your search for truth and keenness to know and discover and I believe that this is the first step towards a firm faith and strong belief.
    很欣赏你这样探究真理、渴望求知的态度，我相信这是我们坚定信仰的第一步。
13. These adjectives mean having or showing mental keenness.
    这些形容词都表达具有或显示出思维的快捷性。
14. We should enjoy everyday with a gentleness, a vigor, and a keenness of appreciation.
    我们应该以优雅的风度、充沛的精力、和高度珍惜的心情去享受每一天。
15. A few weeks 'hard work should damp dawn his keenness. He has just received his fortnight's pay.
    几星期的繁重劳动能抑制他的热情。他刚收到两个星期的酬劳。
16. Kawabata Yasunari's keenness on writing the death theme was not able to separate him from his experience of life, outlook of life, aesthetic standards and his age as well.
    川端康成如此热衷于写死亡的主题，是与他的生活经历、人生观、美学观以及他生活的时代分不开的。
17. His keenness for sport soon yielded place to an interest in music.
    他对体育运动的爱好很快地被音乐的兴趣所取代了。
18. A chilly sensation crept up his spine and spread out until his face paled and his eyes lost the sheen of courage and keenness.
    于是一缕冷意从他背脊上扩散开来，直到他脸色发白，直到他的眼睛里消失了勇悍尖利的光彩。
19. Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight. a keen wit, intelligence
    敏锐，聪明判断或洞察力的快速，准确及敏捷
20. Keenness is the final key in working as a part of a team.
    在团队工作中，这是你必须具备的最后一个关键素质。
21. His headache has departed; his every sense seem to have gained keenness
    他头不疼了，於是他的每个感官又恢复了敏锐
22. They are men with self confidence and a keenness to look, behave and dress like men.
    他们很自信，并且热衷于通过言行、衣着塑造自己的男性形象。
23. The only thing I could see in him was a certain keenness for action.
    在他身上我所能见到的唯一特点是渴望行动。
24. His keenness to get the job done spilled over into lack of consideration for the workers.
    他急于完成这项任务，从而忽视了对工人的关心。
25. You'd better whip up some keenness if you're to win the game.
    你若是想赢得这场比赛，最好提高一些敏捷度。
26. Appetite is the keenness of living; it is one of the senses that tells you that you are still curious to exist, that you stillhave an edge on your longings and want to bite into the world and taste its multitudinous flavours and juices.
    食欲是对生存的强烈渴望；这一咸官告诉你，你对生存仍有好奇心，你和欲望和期待仍很旺盛，依然希望咀嚼这大千世界，品尝它五花八门的风味和甜汁儿。
27. Wit implies intellectual keenness and the ability to perceive and express in a diverting, often pointed way analogies between essentially dissimilar things;
    Wit暗指学术上的敏锐，和能够发现基本上不相似的事物之间的对比且能用一种令人发笑且通常尖锐的方式表达的能力；
28. These adjectives are synonymous when they refer to keenness and forcefulness of thought, expression, or intellect.
    这些形容词用以表示思想、表达或才智的尖锐有力时是同义词。
29. In a commercial society, advertisers and salesmen have a keenness for advertisement for it promotes the sale of merchants effectively.
    广告作为现代商业社会促销的一种极为有效的方式受到广告商和销售商的追捧。
30. This famous novel shows typical Mauriac ′ s brainchild characteristic, that he is good at revealing with boldness and keenness the bourgeoisie families ′ tragedy in modem western society, without any love and being full of spiritual loneliness and seclusion.
    它典型地体现出作家擅长从心理视角大胆、敏锐地揭示西方当代社会爱之匮乏、精神孤独隔绝的资产阶级家庭悲剧的创作特征。

noun

1. thinness of edge or fineness of point

   Synonym:    sharpness

2. a quick and penetrating intelligence
   1. he argued with great acuteness
   2. I admired the keenness of his mind

   Synonym:    acutenessacuitysharpness

3. a positive feeling of wanting to push ahead with something

   Synonym:    eagernessavidityavidness