【求助】审稿意见中有关XRD解释的一个小问题

Maybe you should state your stence like that:
As the milling time increased, the diffraction peaks of the as-milled powders were weaker and broader, suggesting that the deformation of the crystals became much stronger.
I think it's not fit that you used the word"rougher" to express the broadening of peaks, and you can say the surface of the crystals became rougher.

感觉用As the milling time increased, the diffraction peaks of the as-milled powders became more and more rough更好，是不是？

我觉得没有说峰变得粗糙的，只能说峰尖锐或者宽化，可以说表面粗糙吧

不是！！
在下也认为weak/broadening/noisy比rough更贴切，针对审稿人的这条意见，楼主需要承认自己用词不当即可:
"We did not express our meaning correctly and the rougher has been corrected as weaker and broader. Sorry for this confusion."
不服可以请专业英语版的人来鉴定，哈哈

你好，谢谢你的回复。
我在我的帖子中写道：
Figure 2 depicts the XRD patterns of as-milled Cu-25 wt% Si3N4 at different stages of milling. It was confirmed that only two phases of Cu and Si3N4 were present in the as-milled powders.

It was also found that with increasing the milling time, the diffraction peaks of Cu and Si3N4 became broader. This change revealed a reduced grain size and an elevated strain energy stored inside particles, because of the severe plastic deformation introduced during ball milling.

As the milling time increased, the diffraction peaks of the as-milled powders were rougher, suggesting that the deformation of the crystals became much stronger. 图中(a)3 h, (b) 7 h, (c) 9 h, and (d) 12 h。

第二段我已经写了“It was also found that with increasing the milling time, the diffraction peaks of Cu and Si3N4 became broader”
那针对第三段中rougher的审稿意见，再改为weaker and broader，不是重复了啊，我应该怎么改，希望你给点意见，再次表示感谢:)

知道您的意思，但rougher确实不到位。
As the milling time increased, the diffraction peaks of the as-milled powder were much weaker, ...

//顺便说一下，
1、deformation变得更加stronger感觉别扭，使用more obvious是不是更好？
2、从峰的弱化判断存在塑变逻辑不通。为什么不可能是因为颗粒更细造成的呢？

你说的只是一部分，