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• 國際音標^(幫助)：/ˈʃɑː(ɹ)pənə(ɹ)/

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1. 磨削器

   There was a pencil sharpener at the front of the classroom.

   教室前面有個削筆刀。

2. (比喻義) 使變明顯、加強的事物
   • 1795, Hannah More, The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain

     “Sir,” said the shepherd, “poverty is a great sharpener of the wits. […]

   • 1872, Chambers's miscellany of instructive & entertaining tracts

     The snuff-box, knife, and chicken-bones were again in requisition, and a pen was successfully formed. The ink, or at least its substitute, was rather more difficult, but necessity is always a sharpener of intellect, and even this was accomplished.

3. (非正式) 起床後或飯前喝的酒

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