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基本释义

v.
扩大; 发展; 详细阐明

词性变化

实用例句

The new system expanded the role of family doctors.

新体制扩大了家庭医生的作用。

牛津词典

There are no plans to expand the local airport.

目前尚无扩建地方机场的方案。

牛津词典

We've expanded the business by opening two more stores.

我们增开了两个商店以扩展业务。

牛津词典

an expanding economy (= with more businesses starting and growing)

不断发展的经济

牛津词典

I repeated the question and waited for her to expand.

我把问题重复了一遍,等着她详细回答。

牛津词典

Could you expand on that point, please?

请你把这一点详细说明一下好吗?

牛津词典

In breathing the chest muscles expand the rib cage and allow air to be sucked into the lungs.

呼吸时胸部肌肉使胸廓扩大让空气吸入肺部。

牛津词典

The waist expands to fit all sizes.

腰围可松可紧适合任何尺码。

牛津词典

Metals expand when they are heated.

金属受热会膨胀。

牛津词典

Student numbers are expanding rapidly.

学生人数在迅速增加。

牛津词典

A child's vocabulary expands through reading.

孩子的词汇量通过阅读得到扩大。

牛津词典

Engineers noticed that the pipes were not expanding as expected...

工程师注意到管道并没有如预期那样膨胀。

The money supply expanded by 14.6 per cent in the year to September...

截至9月,当年的货币供应增加了14.6%。

The popular ceramics industry expanded towards the middle of the 19th century...

到19世纪中期,大众制陶业得到了发展。

The interest rate's coming down. I'll be able to expand or stay in business...

利率正在降低,我可以扩大公司或者维持经营。

In the course of development, gradually expand their own and development capabilities and and development institutions.

公司在发展过程中, 逐步壮大自身的研发能力和研发机构.

期刊摘选

Your prosperity can expand America's prosperity.

你们的繁荣能够扩大美国的繁荣.

期刊摘选

Rational and effective measures will be taken to expand education loans remarkably.

采取合理有效的措施,促进国家助学贷款大幅度增加.

期刊摘选

Click the plus sign to expand the list of templates, select a template, and click New.

单击加号展开模板列表, 选择一个模板, 然后单击“新建”.

期刊摘选

Plans to expand the ATC and CCTV systems to other new towns are continuing.

至于把区域交通控制系统和闭路电视摄影机系统扩展至其他新巿镇的计划,也会继续进行.

期刊摘选

That's inspired local businesses to expand and outsiders to look for weekend retreats.

这推动了本地企业的发展,也让外地游客得以周末来这里休闲.

期刊摘选

His success emboldened him to expand his business.

他有了成就因而激发他进一步扩展业务.

《简明英汉词典》

Metals expand when they are heated.

金属受了热就会膨胀.

《现代汉英综合大词典》

The petals of many flowers expand in the sunshine.

许多花瓣在阳光下开放.

《现代英汉综合大词典》

真题例句

Britons have cut their spending on itits prices have gone up over the yearsits quality has seen marked improvementBritons have developed the habit of savingIt will expand in time.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

What about supply? The three environmental trends—the shortage of fresh water, the loss of topsoil and the rising temperatures—are making it increasingly hard to expand the world's grain supply fast enough to keep up with demand.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

It gradually expands with age.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

Indeed, even before the steep climb in grain prices in 2008, the number of failing states was expanding.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

When a group of craftsmen expands to include more members, a small craft organization is formed.

出自-2016年12月听力原文

Unfortunately, that comfort can hinder the very learning that can expand your company and your career.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

It will help your company expand more rapidly.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

It wants to expand its storage of crude oil.

出自-2014年6月阅读原文

To expand its scope of business.

出自-2012年6月阅读原文

Learn: Expand your boundaries.

出自-2010年12月阅读原文

Houses built before 1939 use about 50% more energy per square foot than those built after 2000, mainly due to the tiny cracks and gaps that expand over time and let in more outside air.

出自-2010年6月阅读原文

When that restaurant became very busy, I decided to expand my business.

出自-2011年6月听力原文

As a result, the museum plans to expand the hall, as well as add to its ancient birds collection.

2019年12月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section A

That feeling echoes the beliefs of the Therapeutic Food Pantry program at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, which completed its pilot phase and is about to expand on an ongoing basis to five clinic sites throughout the city.

2018年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

The problem is growing as the population of the state continues to expand.

2018年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C

The three environmental trends—the shortage of fresh water, the loss of topsoil and the rising temperatures—are making it increasingly hard to expand the world's grain supply fast enough to keep up with demand.

2016年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

Travelling is a great way to expand your world view, although it can be expensive.

2019年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section C

Unfortunately, that comfort can hinder the very learning that can expand your company and your career.

2015年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C

Testing innovations do no good unless the good experiments are identified and expanded and the bad ones are dropped.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

Today's battery breakthroughs come as the world looks to expand modern energy access to the billion or so people without it, while also cutting back on fuels that warm the planet.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

The wireless age is expanding to include not just our phones, tablets, and laptops, but also our cars, homes, and even whole communities.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

Nations are also pressing ahead with space research and satellite projects to expand their global navigation abilities.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

Building on a Soviet-era foothold, Russia is expanding its monitoring stations for Glonass, its version of the Global Positioning System .

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

As some countries expand operations in Antarctica, the United States maintains three year-round stations on the continent with more than 1,000 people during the southern hemisphere's summer, including those at the Amundsen-Scott station, built in 1956 at an elevation of 9,301 feet on a plateau at the South Pole.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

It is highly important to expand the metropolitan areas.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

The space dreamers end up benefiting all of us—not just because of the way they expand human knowledge, or because of the spin-off technologies they produce, but because the two types of dreams feed off each other.

出自-2013年12月阅读原文

But Bowman's supporters argue that Monsanto is trying to expand the scope of patents in ways that would enrich big corporations and hurt small farmers

出自-2013年12月阅读原文

Expanding the three-year option may be difficult, but it may be less difficult than asking Congress for additional financial help, asking legislators for more state support, or asking students even higher tuition payments.

出自-2012年6月阅读原文

As Santiago de la Mora, head of Google Books for Europe, puts it: "By making it possible to search the millions of books that exist today, we hope to expand the frontiers of human knowledge.

出自-2011年12月阅读原文

Prices are good, crowds are fewer and the dividends like expanded worldview, lifelong memories, the satisfaction of boosting the global economy—can't be easily snatched away.

出自-2011年6月听力原文

As some countries expand operations in Antarctica, the United States maintains three year-round stations on the continent with more than 1,000 people during the southern hemisphere's summer, including those at the Amundsen-Scott station, built in 1956 at

2016年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B

But after General mills bought Epic in 2016, Collins and Forrest suddenly had the resources they needed to expand their supply chain.

2019年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B

By offering services to help expand the longevity of their products, they're promising quality and durability to consumers and receiving the reputational gains for being environmentally friendly.

2019年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

fish have a refuge in the streams and can expand into the lagoons when the lake is low and the lagoons are separate, Harper said All the lagoons join when the lake is high and fish must retreat to their stream refuges or die.

2017年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C

I look forward to seeing researchers expand our understanding of the issue so we can translate it into effective education and policy.

2018年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B

Soon, our current smartphone lifestyle will expand to create our own smart home lifestyle too.

2017年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C

Today's battery breakthroughs come as the world looks to expand modern energy access to the billion or so people without it, while also cutting back on fuels that warm the planet.

2016年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C

You then have more opportunities to expand your professional network than if you worked alone.

2019年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C

As their world expanded, she said, children compared themselves to others online in a way that was "hugely damaging in terms of their self-identity, in terms of their confidence, but also in terms of their ability to develop themselves".

2018年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

For example, people volunteer to express personal values related to unselfishness, to expand their range of experiences, and to strengthen social relationships.

2015年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

It could be expanded across the tube network in coming years.

2016年高考英语上海卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

Their expanding business became a large corporation in 1996, with three generations of Ans working together.

2015年高考英语安徽卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

But what will be the nature of that difference? Merely expanding the orchestra’s repertoire will not be enough.

出自-2011年考研阅读原文

Besides generating income, the presence of other marketers makes the site seem objective, gives companies opportunities to learn valuable information about the appeal of other companies’ marketing, and may help expand user traffic for all companies concerned.

出自-2011年考研阅读原文

But even as the number of English speakers expands further there are signs that the global predominance of the language may fade within the foreseeable future.

出自-2017年考研翻译原文

As the international education market expands, the recent slowdown in the number of international students studying in the main English-speaking countries is likely to continue, especially if there are no effective strategic policies to prevent such slippage.

出自-2017年考研翻译原文

Taxes on low-wage labor need to be cut, and wage subsidies such as the earned income tax credit should be expanded: This would boost incomes, encourage work, reward companies for job creation, and reduce inequality.

出自-2018年考研阅读原文

Besides generating income, the presence of other marketers makes the site seem objective, gives companies opportunities to learn valuable information about the appeal of other companies' marketing, and may help expand user traffic for all companies concer

2011年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

But in addition to those trusted coworkers, you should expand your horizons and find out about all the people around you.

2020年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

However, because these connections are made through effort and practice, scientists believe that intelligence can expand and fluctuate according to mental effort.

2014年考研真题(英语一)完形填空 Section Ⅰ

英英释义

Verb
  • 1. extend in one or more directions;

    "The dough expands"

  • 2. become larger in size or volume or quantity;

    "his business expanded rapidly"

  • 3. make bigger or wider in size, volume, or quantity;

    "expand the house by adding another wing"

  • 4. grow stronger;

    "The economy was booming"

  • 5. exaggerate or make bigger;

    "The charges were inflated"

  • 6. add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing;

    "She elaborated on the main ideas in her dissertation"

  • 7. expand the influence of;

    "The King extended his rule to the Eastern part of the continent"

同义词辨析

enlarge, amplify, expand, increase, magnify, multiply, augment

这些动词均有"增加,增大"或"扩大"之意。

  • enlarge: 主要指面积或体积等的扩大。
  • amplify: 在科技中常指声音的扩大或电磁波的增强。也指补充了细节、详述或扩大内容等。此词系正式用语。
  • expand: 指范围、程度、体积和尺寸等方面的扩大或增加。
  • increase: 指数量、强度和大小等方面的扩大或增加。
  • magnify: 可指用光学仪器使物体看上去显得变大;也指事实上把某物增大,有时用于夸张意味。
  • multiply: 通常指自然繁殖而产生的增长,有时也指同类事物数量的成倍增加。
  • augment: 较正式用词,一般指在原有的基础上增加含量而扩大。

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