| 词汇 | inflating |
| 释义 | inflating present participle ofinflate inflate verb[ I or T ] uk /ɪnˈfleɪt/ us /ɪnˈfleɪt/ inflateverb[I or T] (FILL WITH AIR)to make something increase in size by filling it with air, or to increase in size when filled with air: （使）充气；（使）膨胀 He inflated the balloons with helium.他给气球充了氦气。 We watch the hot-air balloon slowly inflate.我们看着热气球慢慢胀大。 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 inflateverb[I or T] (MAKE LARGER)to become or to make something larger or more important: 抬高;夸大 They inflated their part in the rescue every time they told the story.他们每次讲这个故事时都要夸大自己在营救中的作用。 The star's ego has inflated to dangerous proportions. Exaggerating & playing down bloviate blow something out of proportionidiom cartoonish cartoonishly catastrophize fulsome go overboardidiom grandiloquent inflated make a mountain out of a molehillidiom make little of somethingidiom make much of somethingidiom make something of something/someone meal mildly minimization overrated protest too muchidiom underplay underrate inflateverb[I or T] (ECONOMY)finance & economics specialized to have or cause a general increase in prices and economic activity : There have been efforts to inflate the economy and prop up asset prices. There is a theory that you should borrow when your money can buy sound assets like gold and real estate and pay off that debt with cheaper money as an economy inflates. Price increases accrual added value anti-inflation anti-inflationary appreciate by something appreciate in value appreciation bull market dead cat bounce go through the roofidiom hyperinflation inflationary overcharge projected value put something up rack rack something up rebound reinflate roof You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Economics Examples of inflatinginflating In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Inflating at this percentage gave a perfect fit for 1929-1945 in which the two series overlap. In addition, teachers may be biased in their perceptions of children who are functioning poorly in the school setting, inflating their reporting of psychological problems. Firstly to remove year-to-year variation which, by inflating experimental variation, reduces the capacity of the experiment to detect treatment effects. To investigate the clinical significance of inflating one's selfviews, four inflation indices were computed and related to children's level of aggression. These figures are quite remarkable :onsidering their probable bias towards inflating the extent of non-use. Because young bats (born after the cyclone) were present during our counts, thereby inflating postcyclone numbers, actual cyclone-related mortality rate was probably underestimated. Whatever national, regional and local monetary factors are inflating cost aggregates should also be inflating receipts aggregates in nearly the same fashion. Similarly, the other bubbles in an eternally inflating spacetime are irrelevant. Overall, this will increase both the investors' awareness and the managers' risk of cosmetically inflating earnings. However, the methods applied had a slightly inflating effect. It seems the only way out of this dilemma is that men are inflating their conquests and women not (highly unlikely). However, they also affect the environmental and social responses produced by the individual, thereby inflating the chance of adverse outcome and maladaptive experience. This increased variance speeds the response to selection, sharpening clines and thus further inflating the variance. We treated each observation for an individual as independent, thus artificially inflating degrees of freedom in statistical tests. This could have resulted in inflating or deflating the rates of foetal deaths. 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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