improve v. 改善；改进，提高
1.improve+宾语 对原事物本身加以改善
If he improved his IT skills, he'd easily get a job.
他如果提高了自己的信息技术技能，就会容易找到工作。
You must improve your spelling.
你得减少拼写错误。
We seek to improve relations between our two countries.
我们寻求改进我们两国间的关系。
The company needs to improve performance in all these areas.
公司需要在所有这些方面改善业绩。
The new management techniques aim to improve performance.
新的管理技术旨在提高效率。
The extra money will give us the scope to improve our facilities.
有了这笔额外资金，我们就能把设备加以改进了。
The company needs to improve its competitive edge.
公司必须提高它的竞争力。
It suddenly struck me how we could improve the situation.
我一下子明白我们如何能改善局面了。
The company needs to improve its training and retention of staff.
公司需要改进对员工的培训和留用工作。
The government aims to improve public services, especially education.
政府致力于改善公共服务事业，尤其是教育。
I need to improve my French.
我得提高我的法语水平。
Improve the soil by adding organic matter.
加入有机物以改良土壤。
They're researching into ways of improving people's diet.
他们在研究如何改进人们饮食。
I need to improve my English.
我需要提高我的英语水平。
We need to look to ways of improving our marketing.
我们得考虑改进营销方法。
I hope to improve myself by learning to master a number of crafts.
我希望学着掌握几门技术，使自己得到提高。
Improve yourself rather than banking/ counting on the defeat of your rivals.
要提高你自己而不是指望着对手失败。
He was always trying his best to improve himself.
他总是尽力提高自己。
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2.improve in 在……方面有改进或提高（强调整体性改善）
She’s improving in health.
她的健康状况有好转。
I try to improve in reading exercise.
我尝试通过练习提升阅读能力。
She improved in English.她的英有进步。
He has much improved in health.
他的健康状况大有改善。
Her health has improved in leaps and bounds.
她的健康已迅速好转。
Most of their products have considerably improved in quality.
他们的大部分产品在质量上有重大改善。
3. improve on/upon sth改进；做出比…更好的成绩;对……改善；超过；
He hopes to improve on his tally of three goals in the past nine games.
他希望提高在过去九场比赛中打进三球的纪录。
We've certainly improved on last year's figures.
我们的业绩的确超过了去年的数字。
They improved on his method.
他们对他的方法进行了改良。
Whatever is offered by the bank is unlikely to be improved on by any rival suitor.
其他竞争收购方不大可能开出比这家银行更高的价码。
We need to improve on our performance against France.
我们需要比对阵法国队时表现得更好。
Mary has never improved on her first book.
玛丽再也没有写出比她处女作更好的书来。
The second edition greatly improves on the first edition.
第二版比第一版好得多。
比较下面两组句子：
He has improved her poem.他已经修改了她的诗。
He has improved on her poem.他写的一首诗比她的诗更好。
The poem cannot be improved.这首诗没有什么可改的地方。
This poem cannot be improved on.这首诗已经够好了，再也写不出比这更好的了。