Increase
[ɪn'kriːs] or ['ɪnkris]
解释:
(noun.) the act of increasing something; 'he gave me an increase in salary'.
(noun.) the amount by which something increases; 'they proposed an increase of 15 percent in the fare'.
(noun.) a change resulting in an increase; 'the increase is scheduled for next month'.
(noun.) a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important; 'the increase in unemployment'; 'the growth of population'.
(verb.) make bigger or more; 'The boss finally increased her salary'; 'The university increased the number of students it admitted'.
(verb.) become bigger or greater in amount; 'The amount of work increased'.
编辑:奥斯本--From WordNet
解释:
(v. i.) To become greater or more in size, quantity, number, degree, value, intensity, power, authority, reputation, wealth; to grow; to augment; to advance; -- opposed to decrease.
(v. i.) To multiply by the production of young; to be fertile, fruitful, or prolific.
(v. i.) To become more nearly full; to show more of the surface; to wax; as, the moon increases.
(v. t.) To augment or make greater in bulk, quantity, extent, value, or amount, etc.; to add to; to extend; to lengthen; to enhance; to aggravate; as, to increase one's possessions, influence.
(v. i.) Addition or enlargement in size, extent, quantity, number, intensity, value, substance, etc.; augmentation; growth.
(v. i.) That which is added to the original stock by augmentation or growth; produce; profit; interest.
(v. i.) Progeny; issue; offspring.
(v. i.) Generation.
(v. i.) The period of increasing light, or luminous phase; the waxing; -- said of the moon.
手打:维罗妮卡
同义词及近义词:
v. n. [1]. Grow, augment, be augmented, become greater or larger.[2]. Multiply, be fruitful.
v. a. [1]. Augment, enlarge, make greater, make larger.[2]. Enhance, raise, advance, heighten, add to.[3]. Extend, prolong.[4]. Aggravate, intensify.
n. [1]. Augmentation, enlargement, extension, expansion, growth, addition, accession, increment.[2]. Product, produce, gain, profit.[3]. Offspring, issue, progeny, descendants.
录入:赛斯
同义词及反义词:
SYN:acception, growth, extension,[See AUGMENTATION]
SYN:Advance, heighten, dilutenhance, aggregate, pile_up, raise, magnify, spread,[See DECREASE]
整理:纳撒尼尔
解释:
v.i. to grow in size: to become greater: to advance.—v.t. to make greater: to advance: to extend: to aggravate.—adj. Increas′able.—ns. Increas′ableness; In′crease growth: addition to the original stock: profit: produce: progeny.—adj. Increase′ful (Shak.) abundant of produce.—adv. Increas′ingly in the way of increase.
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娱乐性解释:
To dream of an increase in your family, may denote failure in some of your plans, and success to another. To dream of an increase in your business, signifies that you will overcome existing troubles.
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例句:
- A struggle for existence inevitably follows from the high rate at which all organic beings tend to increase. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- You will drive him to desperation, she said, and increase our dangers tenfold. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- This increase of evaporative power increased the speed the engine could attain. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- It cannot promote health nor ease pain; it makes no increase of merit in the person; it creates envy; it hastens misfortune. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
- The largest per capita increase since 1870 has been in malt liquors, and the next in coffee. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- From this beginning cutters gradually added additional facets to increase the brilliancy until there were thirty-four in all. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- If any thing could increase her delight, it was perceiving that the baby would soon have outgrown its first set of caps. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
- So there it was, in the haze yonder; and it increased and multiplied. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
- Move the lens so that its distance from the candle is increased, and then find the image on a piece of paper. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- Her surprise increased with her indifference: he almost fancied that she suspected him of being tainted with foreignness. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
- This increase of evaporative power increased the speed the engine could attain. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- In six years his royalties increased from $300 a year to over $200,000 a year. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- As we advanced the light increased until presently we emerged into well-lighted passageways. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
- This idea increased my melancholy, for I hate, and always did hate, anything like London in miniature. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- This foresight increases still further his natural disposition to save. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- It increases as fast as the means of the consumers increase for procuring it. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- With the growth of civilization, the gap between the original capacities of the immature and the standards and customs of the elders increases. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- We learned in Section 287 that the strength of a current increases when the electromotive force increases, and diminishes when the electromotive force diminishes. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- The quantity of money, on the contrary, must in every country naturally increase as the value of the annual produce increases. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- Their consumption must increase as their mass increases, or rather in a much greater proportion. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- It shows, besides, that you are mindful of what you owe; it makes you appear a careful as well as an honest man, and that still increases your credit. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
- He has many friends, and is at a time of life when friends and engagements are continually increasing. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
- But there are, and the demand is steadily increasing. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- It could only be imputed to increasing attachment. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
- Brotherhood through sorrow, sorrow for common sufferings and for irreparable mutual injuries, is spreading and increasing throughout the world. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- I have thought it over, and have decided on increasing the dose. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- Many of the foreigners were utterly destitute; and their increasing numbers at length forbade a recourse to the usual modes of relief. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- Now Dalton's master had taught that the atoms of matter in a gas (elastic fluid) repel one another by a force increasing in proport ion as their distance diminishes. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
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