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词汇 extend
释义 extend
verb
uk /ɪkˈstend/ us /ɪkˈstend/

extendverb (INCREASE)


B2[ T ]
to add to something in order to make it bigger or longer: 扩大;扩展;使增加长度
We have plans to extend our house (= to make it bigger).我们计划扩建房屋。
The government has produced a series of leaflets designed to extend (= increase) public awareness of the dangers of AIDS.政府印发了一系列传单,旨在加强公众对艾滋病危害的认识。
We're planning to extend our publishing of children's books (= increase it).我们正计划扩展儿童图书的出版业务。
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.
B2[ T ]
to make something last longer: 延长,使延期
The bar has recently extended its opening hours (= made them longer).酒吧最近延长了营业时间。
I need to extend my visa (= make it last longer).我的签证需要延期。
They planned to extend the car park, freeing existing parking spaces for visitors.他们计划扩建停车场,腾出现有的停车位给访客用。
We had to wait months for the council to approve our plans to extend the house.我们等了几个月才等到政务委员会批准我们扩建房屋的计划。
The company is hoping to extend its market still further.公司希望可以进一步拓展市场。
The deadline for applications is being extended, in part because of the postal strike.申请的最后期限延长了,部分原因是邮局发生了罢工。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Stretching the body
akimbo
crane
crane your neck
distend
distension
outstretched
reach
spread
spreadeagled
stretch
stretch (yourself) out

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Becoming bigger

extendverb (STRETCH)


[ T ]
to stretch something out: 伸,伸出,伸开;展开
We've extended a clothesline (= made it reach) between two trees in the garden.我们在花园里两棵树之间系了根晾衣绳。
He extended his hand as a greeting (= held out his hand for someone to shake it).他伸出手去表示欢迎。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Stretching the body
akimbo
crane
crane your neck
distend
distension
outstretched
reach
spread
spreadeagled
stretch
stretch (yourself) out

You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:


Becoming bigger

extendverb (REACH)


B2[ Iusually+ adv/prep ]
to reach, stretch, or continue: 伸展,延伸;延续
extend forThe Sahara Desert extends for miles.撒哈拉沙漠绵延数百英里。
extend beyondThe path extends beyond the end of the road.这条小路一直通到大路尽头很远的地方。
extend toRain is expected to extend to (= arrive in) all parts of the country by this evening.预计今天傍晚之前降雨范围会扩大到全国各个地区。
The effects of this legislation will extend (= reach) further than the government intends.这项立法所产生的影响将比政府预期的更为深远。
Our property extends as far as that line of trees over there.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Stretching the body
akimbo
crane
crane your neck
distend
distension
outstretched
reach
spread
spreadeagled
stretch
stretch (yourself) out

You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:


Becoming bigger

extendverb (OFFER)


[ T ]formal
to offer or give something to someone: 提供;给予
extend your thanks to someoneI should like to extend my thanks to you for your kindness.对您的好意我谨致以衷心感谢。
extend a welcome to someoneThe chairperson extended a warm welcome to the guest speaker.主席向特邀演讲人表示热烈欢迎。
The government is extending aid to people who have been affected by the earthquake.政府正在为地震受灾居民提供援助。
[ + two objects ]The bank has agreed to extend us money/extend money to us (= lend us money) to buy our house.银行已经同意向我们提供购房贷款。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Giving, providing and supplying
accommodate
accommodate someone with something
administer
administration
afford
arm someone with something
dish
hand off
hand something around
hand something back
hand something down
hand something in
outfit
provision
re-equip
re-equipment
reassign
reassignment
rebid
render

extendverb (INCLUDE)


[ I+ adv/prep ]
to include or affect someone or something: 包括;影响到;适用于
extend toParking restrictions do not extend to disabled people.停车限制不适用于残疾人士。
Her new-found tolerance does not extend to single mothers.她近来培养出一颗包容之心,可是对单身母亲仍然谈不上宽容。
The invitation did not extend to family members.受邀者不能带家属赴约。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Including and containing
absorptive capacity
accessibly
all in
assimilable
assimilate
carry
drag
draw
draw someone into something
EDI
EDIB
embody
embracingly
involve
number someone/something among someone/something
O, o
pack something in
pepper
plug
seat

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Affecting and influencing

extendverb (USE ABILITY)


[ T ]
to cause someone to use all their ability: 使发挥才干;使才尽其用;使竭尽全力
She feels that her job doesn't extend her enough.她觉得她的工作不能充分发挥她的才干。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Trying and making an effort
A game
all out
assault
attempt
attempted
commitment
go after someone
go all outidiom
go down swinging/fightingidiom
go for itidiom
go for someone
nose
shoot for the moonidiom
shoot the worksidiom
smarten (someone/something) up
smarten up your actidiom
spare
square the circleidiom
stretch
struggle

extend | American Dictionary


extend
verb
us/ɪkˈstend/

extendverb (REACH)


[ I/T ]
to reach, continue, or stretch:
[ I ]Farmland extends for miles in every direction.
[ I ]The meeting extended into the late hours of the night.
[ T ]He extended his hand to greet me.

extendverb (INCREASE)


[ T ]
to add to something in order to make it longer; increase:
The store has recently extended its hours.
I might have extended this essay to include more information.
[ T ]
To extend something is also to increase its range so that it includes more:
The proposed law would extend health insurance to all children.

extendverb (OFFER)


[ T ]
to offer or give:
I would like to extend my thanks to everybody for making this evening a success.
We’d like to extend our condolences to the family.

extend | Business English


extend
verb
uk /ɪkˈstend/us
[ I or T ]
to increase the period of time during which something is effective, or to last for a particular period of time:
At present they are only open four days a week but they plan to extend their hours.
extend an agreement/a contract/a deadline
extend sth from sth to sthUnder the proposal the presidential term would be extended from five to six years.
extend into sthIt looks as if the final talks will extend into June.
extend for sthDon't accept any loan that extends for more years than you plan to keep the car.
[ T ]
to give or offer something to someone:
extend benefits/coverageThe proposal would extend medical insurance coverage to 95% of the population, including every child.
extend creditBy buying and packaging mortgages, Wall Street enabled the lenders to extend credit even as the dangers grew in the housing market.
[ T ]
to increase the size or range of something:
The company's premises have been extended.
The company's own-label range has been extended to include a dining line.
The two educators are responsible for extending college business programs beyond the classroom.

Examples of extend


extend
We extended our model to include proxies for plan eligibility and vesting requirements for both plan types.
We also tested whether extending the model by including more variables would significantly improve the basic model.
In a fully extended specimen it may be as small as 1/9.
The present study adds to and extends that literature in two ways.
Nevertheless, this research extends the work of refs.
Sequentiality can be extended to the whole hierarchy of simple types using sequential algorithms (or more generally, strategies in games) or strongly stable functions.
Our work can be extended in a number of ways.
The processes extended at 25 + 3 m hour-1.
Of the 215 extended nurse prescribers in the study, 97% said prescribing was allowing them to improve patient care.
After this dictionary was extended with the tagged training corpus, it recognizes 96.14% of the words in the test set.
The next stage extends the syntactic context in which pure could be used.
However, although (1) will form the core of the specification, the model has to be extended before fitting it to data.
Type 3 involves those cases in which negative concord extends to the verb in a lower clause, as shown in (13).
We shall return to the problem of extending a valuation to a measure, but only to the generated algebra, not the generated -algebra.
Since the mapping is an isomorphism of abstract bases, it extends to an isomorphism of their sobrifications.
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