moisten

英 [ˈmɔɪsn]

美 [ˈmɔɪsn]

v.  (使)变得潮湿，变得湿润

过去式：moistened　现在分词：moistening　过去分词：moistened　第三人称单数：moistens　

TOEFL

BNC.20843 / COCA.15144

牛津词典

verb

• （使）变得潮湿，变得湿润
  to become or make sth slightly wet
  1. He moistened his lips before he spoke.
     他润了润嘴唇，接着就开始讲话。

柯林斯词典

• VERB 使湿润;弄湿
  Tomoistensomething means to make it slightly wet.
  1. She took a sip of water to moisten her dry throat.
     她抿了一口水，润一下发干的喉咙。
  2. ...a moistened flannel.
     沾湿的毛巾

英英释义

verb

• make moist
  1. The dew moistened the meadows
  Synonym:washdampen
• moisten with fine drops
  1. drizzle the meat with melted butter
  Synonym:drizzle

双语例句

• Moisten lung, relieve a cough and good for stomach.
  可止住咳嗽，对胃及肺有好处。
• She took a sip of water to moisten her dry throat.
  她抿了一口水，润一下发干的喉咙。
• The abundant mineral elements contained in bamboo salt can remarkably relieve skin dryness and moisten skin.
  竹盐中含有丰富的矿物成份能显著舒缓肌肤干燥，补充肌肤所需水份。
• Function: give skin new experience and maintain skin'elasticity, moisten and nurse dry skin, let skin be aqua-healthy and look more young and resume pearl white perfectly in the sleeping.
  功效：新护肤体验，持续维护肌肤弹力，滋润调养干性肌肤，使肌肤呈现水润健康，越来越年轻，让肌肤在熟睡中完美回复珍皙珠白。
• The environment wants to have the always mutually respectful and attentive sky, then can moisten my mind.
  环境要有相濡以沫的天空，才能滋润我心灵。
• Remove the foil wrapper and moisten the suppository with water.
  去掉箔纸，用水湿润药栓。
• He even tried getting passengers to spray saline up their noses to moisten the palate.
  他甚至还尝试让乘客向鼻子里喷盐水湿润鼻腔以获得更敏锐的感官。
• Simply because people seeding it, simply because it embraced the earth, the sun shines only because of its rain moisten it.
  仅仅是因为人们播种了它，仅仅是因为大地拥抱了它，仅仅是因为阳光照耀了它雨露滋润了它。
• You might find it easier to insert if you moisten the suppository with water before inserting it.
  将栓剂用水润湿后使用起来会比较容易。
• World economy on the cake so much, you moisten the Namasuo years, I saw other people all over, like cutting your meat, is accustomed to the Chumaobing.
  世界经济的蛋糕就那么大一点，你滋润了那么些年，看到人家过来切一点，就像切了你的肉，真是惯出毛病来了。