词汇 | expanded |
释义 | expanded past simple and past participle ofexpand expand verb[ I or T ] uk /ɪkˈspænd/ us /ɪkˈspænd/ B2 to increase in size, number, or importance, or to make something increase in this way: (使)(尺寸、数量或重要性)扩大,增加;(使)膨胀 The air in the balloon expands when heated.气球里的空气加热后膨胀。 They expanded their retail operations during the 1980s.20世纪80年代他们扩大了零售业务。 to increase increaseWe need to increase production to meet demand. growThe number of people living alone grows each year. risePrices rose by 10 per cent. go upHouse prices keep going up. escalateCrime in the city has escalated in recent weeks. I don't think we should expand our business in the current economic climate.我认为在当前的经济形势下,我们不应该扩展业务。 In their second album, the band tried to expand their stylistic range.在他们的第二张专辑里,乐队尝试着拓展他们的风格。 The college is not able to expand because of restrictive planning laws.由于限制性规划法规,这所大学无法扩建。 Their economy has expanded enormously, while ours, by contrast, has declined. In their efforts to reduce crime the government expanded the police force.为了减少犯罪,政府扩大了警察的队伍。 Enlarging and inflating augmentation balloon bloat broaden build (someone/something) up bulk expand explosively flare fluff something up implacably inflatable inflation lengthen puff puffed pump someone up reinflate reinflation scale something up You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Increasing and intensifying Phrasal verbexpand on something Examples of expandedexpanded In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. As with all expanded lectures, it suffers from unevenness of extrapolation, or even over-elaboration. On each twig the second or third fully expanded leaf (numbered from apex to base) was selected. It has expanded through the profession and differentiated, so that it is not always recognizable as a distinct movement anymore. By and large, these therapeutic paradigms focused primarily on adults rather than children, although they expanded the possibilities for therapy with children. As residential use became ever more important, average house size expanded as well. The truth is that the use of both languages has expanded considerably, but as for standards falling or rising, there is no easy answer. This scene falls into a kind of modified double-aria form, in which the dramatically kinetic sections are greatly expanded. Non-state homes for the elderly expanded extremely rapidly. Aside from an expanded introduction by all three authors, the chapter headings remain virtually the same. Secondly, liberal economic policies initiated during this time expanded the use of social assistance, thereby increasing budgetary outlays. It is in this context that a small number of men have recently either begun or expanded high-end export vegetable trades. In fact, exterior walls became interior ones as the museum collection expanded. Such extraction is used in phasevocoder techniques, expanded to more complex methods extracting individual partials, noise and transients. First, the literature on ethnic politics is expanded by focusing on the grassroots level during periods of ' normal ' politics. Curme 1935, for example, recognises ' expanded ' verb forms, consisting of auxiliaries and main verbs, along with ' compound ' verbs, comprising verbs and separable particles. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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