enhance    |ɪnˈhɑːns|                       v、增强，提高

一、感受单词本质

1、英文释义

V-T To enhance something means to improve its value,quality,or attractiveness、提高

例句：The White House is eager to protect and enhance that reputation、

白宫急于保护并提高那声望。

2、常见搭配

①enhance relationship增进友谊

②enhance efficiency提高效率

3、近义词：improve提高，改善intensify加强heighten提高，升高

4、形近词：enchant使迷惑

5、单词感觉：“使变强”

二．记住单词含义

助记：en-hanc-e（en-表加强；hanc-提高）→增强，提高

联想记忆：hance汉子，汉子都很猛，很强壮，en-使更强→使强壮→提高，增强

三、学习单词应用

真题例句：Nor was there any evidence that those who self-enhance the most(that is,the participants who thought the most positively doctored picture were real)were doing so to make up for profound insecurities、（2014-阅读-text 2）

参考译文：也没有证据显示那些自我拔高最多的人（即那些认为经过修饰的显得最漂亮的图片就是真实自己的参与者）这样做是为了掩饰自己内心的不安。

真题例句：Since evolution has given rise to few,if any,purposeless physiological response,it is logical to assume that crying has one or more functions that enhance survival、（2014-阅读-text 2）

参考译文：鉴于进化导致了即使有也为数甚少的无目的的生理反应，那么认为哭泣对于强化生存有一种或多种作用是合乎情理的。