释义 |
dilate on/upon something phrasal verb with dilateverb[ I or T ]uk /daɪˈleɪt/ us /ˈdaɪ.leɪt/ formal to write or speak about a subject for a long time: 详述;铺陈 He likes to dilate upon what he thinks is wrong with the world.他喜欢滔滔不绝地谈他所理解的世界的问题所在。 SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Elaborating, specifying and simplifying abstract anti-reductionism anti-reductionist broad brush broaden enlarge on/upon something expand expand on something expansively expansiveness overgeneralization overgeneralize oversimplification oversimplify particularization spec specification specificity specify split hairsidiom |