新东方-柯林斯雅思备考词典

acuteIELTS重点词汇

英 [əˈkjuːt]

[ADJ]

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ADJ. 形容词

1. 严峻的
You can use acute to indicate that an undesirable situation or feeling is very severe or intense.
近义词
severe
双语例句
例：
The war has aggravated an acute economic crisis.
这场战争加剧了一场严峻的经济危机。
例：
The report has caused acute embarrassment to the government.
这份报告使政府极其尴尬。
例：
The labour shortage is becoming acute.
劳动力短缺的问题变得严峻了。
2. 急性的
An acute illness is one that becomes severe very quickly but does not last very long. Compare chronic.
近义词
severe
反义词
mild
双语例句
例：
a patient with acute rheumatoid arthritis.
一位患急性风湿性关节炎的病人。
例：
an acute case of dysentery.
一个急性痢疾的病例。
3. 敏锐的
If a person's or animal's sight, hearing, or sense of smell is acute, it is sensitive and powerful.
近义词
keen
双语例句
例：
When she lost her sight, her other senses grew more acute.
失明以后，她的其他感官变得更加敏锐了。
4. 尖音符的（如café中e上的符号）
An acute accent is a symbol that is placed over vowels in some languages in order to indicate how that vowel is pronounced or over one letter in a word to indicate where it is stressed. You refer to a letter with this accent as, for example, e acute. For example, there is an acute accent over the letter 'e' in the French word 'café'.

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