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词汇 expanding
释义 expanding
present 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。
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

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。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

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

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Increasing and intensifying

Phrasal verb


expand on something

Examples of expanding


expanding

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.


These paths for the robot can be determined easily by expanding our analysis to more cases.
These studies suggest an expanding role for the practice nurse within primary care.
I intend my remarks as suggestions for expanding the argument - and perhaps the research - beyond the promising start made here.
Unlike the smooth expanding maps treated just above, such maps are in general not structurally or measure-theoretically stable with respect to deterministic perturbations.
Even in the 1920s, when demand was expanding, an excess continued to keep prices down in most salons.
Essentially, they are branched covering maps which are locally expanding at all regular points and locally expanding within wedges at singular points.
A singular-hyperbolic attractor for vector fields is a partially hyperbolic attractor with singularities (that are hyperbolic) and volume expanding central direction.
A singular-hyperbolic set is a partially hyperbolic set whose singularities are hyperbolic and whose central subbundle is volume expanding.
Thus, community studies provide an additional tool expanding our knowledge about the response of terrestrial bacteria to extraterrestrial conditions.
Accordingly, the endemic area was believed to be expanding to other islands.
We suspect that the condition open and expanding can be replaced by open and expansive in the relative sense.
Technology and second language learning: expanding methods and agendas.
Among them is what he calls an expanding conjunctura gesture with a descending fourth.
This process may be facilitated by the exponentially expanding branch surface area in ageing fallows.
A moment's consideration should be enough to see that a similar tree is induced by expanding any expression involving exponentiation and products.
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