音标:[ki:n] ; 柯林斯词典等级:3 级; 牛津三千核心词汇;
a. 锋利的, 敏锐的, 强烈的, 敏捷的, 热心的, 渴望的
n. 挽歌, 痛哭
v. 唱挽歌, 痛哭
n. a funeral lament sung with loud wailing
s. having a sharp cutting edge or point
词型变化:现在分词 : keening ; 过去式 : keened ; 第三人称单数 : keens ; 过去分词 : keened ; 名词复数形式 : keens ; 形容词比较级 : keener ; 形容词最高级 : keenest
考试类型:[四级/六级/考研/托福/IELTS]
词性分布:
形容词95%
动词5%

keen的用法和样例:

例句

用作形容词(adj.)
  1. The blind have a keen sense of touch.盲人有敏锐的触觉。
  2. Their keen eyes can penetrate the water to a depth of forty feet.他们锐利的眼睛能透过水面看到40 英尺的深处。
  3. Be brave, a fence between makes love more keen.勇敢点,受到阻隔的爱情会更强烈。
  4. The razor has a very keen edge.这把剃刀有锋利的口。
  5. They have a wide knowledge of everyday things, and a keen interest in their particular city and state.他们对日常事情所知甚广,对所在的城市和州深为关切。
  6. He's keen, but his youth is a minus factor.他非常精明, 但他的年轻却是个不利的因素。

常见句型

用作形容词(adj.)
用作定语~+ n.
  1. This flower has got a keen scent.这花有一种刺鼻的气味。
  2. Mary is a keen critic.玛丽是一个尖刻的批评家。
  3. She is a keen reader of my novels.她是我的小说的热心读者。
  4. She has a keen mind.她头脑机敏。
用作表语S+be+~
  1. This knife is very keen.这把小刀非常锋利。
  2. The north wind is keen and biting.北风刺骨。
  3. Her father wants her to go to university, but she is not keen.她父亲想让她上大学,但她并不想去。
  4. The competition for the first prize was keen.争夺第一名的竞争很激烈。
S+be+~+ prep .-phrase
  1. She is really keen about the trip.她渴望去旅行。
  2. He is so keen about his game as to forget everything else.他这么专心致志于做游戏,以至把其他一切都忘了。
  3. He is keen after moneymaking.他一心想赚钱。
  4. He is not very keen on jazz.他对爵士音乐不太感兴趣。
  5. My daughter is keen of hearing.我的女儿听觉灵敏。
S+be+~(for sb)+to- v
  1. The boy is keen to go to sea.这孩子很想去航海。
  2. He's keen to pass the examination.他热切希望能够通过考试。
  3. Father is keen for my brother to study law.父亲很希望我兄弟学法律。
S+be+~+that-clause
  1. The parents were keen that their daughter should become musician.父母渴望他们的女儿成为音乐家。

词汇搭配

用作形容词 (adj.)
~+名词
  • keen edge锋利的刀刃
  • keen interest强烈的兴趣
~+动词不定式
  • keen to pass the examination渴望通过考试
  • keen to visit that city很想去参观那个城市
~+介词
  • keen about going to the picnic希望去野餐
  • keen about〔on〕 music爱好音乐
  • keen of hearing听力敏锐

经典引文

  • I am contributing my funeral keen, my personal lament.

    出自:D. M. Davin
  • When the axe was..keen, he began to chop wood.

    出自:M. Shadbolt
  • It was a good knife with a keen blade.

    出自:M. Coney
  • Keens the dog up before a race.

    出自:R. Dahl
  • The very solitude of the wood..keened and sharpened his senses.

    出自:G. Seymour
  • The body of Johnny was taken by his own people who keened over him.

    出自:F. Forsyth
  • It was his turn to keen and cry.

    出自:A. Alvarez

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a gemini
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auxiliary firing
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bonibells
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bus duct work
bustiers
cancelled ballot ticket
chip shell
coalign
cotton gatherer
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cronje
cubango
cut-off interval
cycloses
depilators
dip coating process
distance correcting mechanism of range-finder
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filament emission
fine and microstructure of ocean
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good-times
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hyaline cell
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inferior carotid ganglia
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interface description language
invisible runners
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Koch's node
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line-sequential color-television
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long summer
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matako
mazurek
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monascus
multirelation
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night-creams
Nocardiophage
nomo-
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nonreconstructive inversion
nuplex
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Runamycin
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Szabo
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telc
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unchampioned
Uniloy
universal-joint journal
vaccary
Vsign
water-sop
Whitworth standard screw thread
young Turks