sweeten

verb

1. 使变甜；加糖于
   to make food or drinks taste sweeter by adding sugar, etc.
2. 讨好；拉拢；哄；收买；恭维
   to try to make sb more willing to help you, agree to sth, etc. by giving them money, praising them, etc.
3. 使令人愉快；使更合心意；改善；缓和
   to make sth more pleasant or acceptable

1. VERB 使变甜;加糖于
   If you sweeten food or drink, you add sugar, honey, or another sweet substance to it.
   1. He liberally sweetened his coffee...
      他往咖啡里加了很多糖。
   2. The Australians fry their bananas and sweeten them with honey.
      澳大利亚人把香蕉炸了，然后再淋上蜂蜜吃。
2. VERB 改善;使更合心意;使更有诱惑力
   If you sweeten something such as an offer or a business deal, you try to make someone want it more by improving it or by increasing the amount you are willing to pay.
   1. Kalon Group has sweetened its takeover offer for Manders...
      卡龙集团已经向曼德斯公司开出更为优厚的收购条件。
   2. She had been careful to sweeten the deal with a rather generous cash payment.
      她一直甚为审慎，想要通过支付大量现金促成这笔交易。

1. Sweeten dishes sparingly with honey, or concentrated apple or pear juice.
   加一点蜂蜜或浓缩苹果汁或梨汁，让菜带点甜味。
2. He liberally sweetened his coffee
   他往咖啡里加了很多糖。
3. The Australians fry their bananas and sweeten them with honey.
   澳大利亚人把香蕉炸了，然后再淋上蜂蜜吃。
4. Kalon Group has sweetened its takeover offer for Manders
   卡龙集团已经向曼德斯公司开出更为优厚的收购条件。
5. She had been careful to sweeten the deal with a rather generous cash payment.
   她一直甚为审慎，想要通过支付大量现金促成这笔交易。
6. Remove the tea bags and add the lemon juice and sweeten, if you like.
   把茶袋拿走，加上柠檬汁和甜味剂（如果你喜欢）。
7. I'm not authorized to go any higher, but during the evening I'll check with my people and see if we can sweeten our offer a bit.
   我没有权限可以再提高价格，但晚上我会和内部的人谈谈，看看能不能再提出更好的价格。
8. That suggests bankers felt pressure to sweeten the deal for investors in the euro notes.
   这似乎表明银行家感受到压力，不得不让欧元债券的投资者得到更多甜头。
9. To sweeten the deal for China, Russia has offered Chinese oil companies the chance to invest directly in its upstream.
   为了增加协议对中国的吸引力，俄罗斯向中国石油企业提供了直接投资于上游业务的机会。
10. Speaking of salad ingredients, alfalfa sprouts also help cleanse your system and sweeten your breath.
    提到可以作为色拉配料的苜蓿芽，它也能帮助净化体内各系统、清新口气。
11. I always sweeten my tea with honey.
    我总是在茶里加点蜂蜜，让茶甜一点。
12. You can add fruit purees to the yogurt to create a range of flavours, but DO NOT SWEETEN YOGURT WITH HONEY ( see baby foods to avoid for more information).
    你可以在酸奶中加入水果浓汤来创造某种口味的酸奶，但千万不要在酸奶中加入蜂蜜来提高甜度。
13. We are learning to sweeten and expand our music to create a cycle of homecoming ahead.
    我们正在学会甜美化并扩展我们的音乐，来创造一个前方回家的周期。
14. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.
    只要你能抚平他人的伤痛，你的人生就不会毫无意义。
15. Apples sweeten in the dark.
    苹果甜在黑暗中。
16. The pears will sweeten as they ripen.
    梨子熟了就会变甜。
17. To sweeten up this disastrous night.
    给这个悲伤的夜晚一点甜蜜。
18. If you sweeten it, you are no longer tasting the tea, you are merely tasting the sugar; you could make similar drink by dissolving sugar in plain hot water.
    如果你在茶里加糖，使茶变甜，你就再也尝不到真正的茶之味，你喝到的也许只有甜味了，这跟在热水里加糖又有多大的区别呢？
19. Many Americans choose to add sugar to sweeten the drink, or lemon to add to the flavor.
    许多美国人会加些糖来增加甜甜的口感或者增加柠檬来加味。
20. Children sweeten labors; but they make misfortune more bitter.
    子女使辛劳变为甜蜜，使不幸更加苦涩。
21. It may also increase pressure on BHP to sweeten its current offer.
    中化的搅局，还可能会让必和必拓面临提高目前报价的压力。
22. Let her go and I'll sweeten the deal.
    让她走，我将使交易变甜。
23. And can add red pool in tea honey, used to sweeten food mm is easy to accept.
    而且可以在茶内加红塘和蜂蜜，习惯甜食的mm也很容易接受。
24. Although a natural alternative, such as honey, can be used to sweeten food if it is necessary, we can in fact do without it.
    如果必要的话，我们可以用像蜜糖之类的天然替代品来增加食物的甜度，然而事实上不用也行。
25. They were to cleanse and sweeten the world in which they lived, to keep it from decay, to give a new and more wholesome flavor to human existence.
    他们要净化和美化这个他们生存的世界，避免它陷入堕落的深渊，并给予人类的存在一个新的和更加完整的意义。
26. Study on the Biological Properties in the Fermentation of Sweeten Glutinous Rice Wine;
    系统研究了发酵法生产糯米饮料的生产工艺以及影响糯米饮料品质的因素。
27. I think you should try to sweeten him before you ask him for the loan.
    我想你在向他借钱之前应先哄他开心。
28. And sweeten the romance of love.
    爱情有了你，变得更加甜蜜、浪漫。
29. Sweeten one's child with the promise of a toy.
    以答应买玩具哄小孩。
30. Sweeten to taste with a drizzle of raw honey or pure maple syrup.
    另外还可加入少量生蜂蜜或纯枫糖浆增加甜度。

v.

sugar/sweeten the pill

• 药里加糖；缓和情况；缓解苦感
  to do sth that makes an unpleasant situation seem less unpleasant

verb

1. make sweeter, more pleasant, or more agreeable
   1. sweeten a deal

2. make sweeter in taste

   Synonym:    dulcifyedulcoratedulcorate