Augment
[ɔːg'ment] or [ɔɡ'mɛnt]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) enlarge or increase; 'The recent speech of the president augmented tensions in the Near East'.
(verb.) grow or intensify; 'The pressure augmented'.
阿加莎手打--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To enlarge or increase in size, amount, or degree; to swell; to make bigger; as, to augment an army by reeforcements; rain augments a stream; impatience augments an evil.
(v. t.) To add an augment to.
(v. i.) To increase; to grow larger, stronger, or more intense; as, a stream augments by rain.
(n.) Enlargement by addition; increase.
(n.) A vowel prefixed, or a lengthening of the initial vowel, to mark past time, as in Greek and Sanskrit verbs.
手打:维罗妮卡
同義詞及近義詞：
v. a. Enlarge, increase, magnify, add to, make larger.
v. n. Increase, grow larger.
费利西亚編輯
同義詞及反義詞：
[See ENLARGE]
手打:柴门霍夫
解釋/意思:
v.t. to increase: to make larger.—v.i. to grow larger.—n. Aug′ment increase: (gram.) the prefixed vowel to the past tenses of the verb in Sanskrit and Greek. Sometimes applied also to such inflectional prefixes as the ge- of the German perfect participle.—adjs. Augment′able Augment′ative having the quality or power of augmenting.—n. (gram.) a word formed from another to express increase of its meaning.—ns. Augmentā′tion increase: addition: (her.) an additional charge in a coat-of-arms bestowed by the sovereign as a mark of honour: (mus.) the repetition of a melody in the course of the piece in notes of greater length than the original: (Scots law) an increase of stipend obtained by a parish minister by an action raised in the Court of Teinds against the titular and heritors; Augment′er.
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例句/造句/用法:
- Just as we come to know them better, intermediate forms flow in, and doubts as to specific limits augment. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- She was confident of having performed her duty, and to fret over unavoidable evils, or augment them by anxiety, was no part of her disposition. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- Mrs. Norris, whose attachment seemed to augment with the demerits of her niece, would have had her received at home and countenanced by them all. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- To augment our share of the colony trade beyond what it otherwise would be, is the avowed purpose of the monopoly. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Her present visit to London tended to augment her state of inquietude, by shewing in its utmost extent the ravages occasioned by pestilence. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- But even in the case of an inferiority, we still desire a greater distance, in order to augment, still more the idea of ourself. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- This operation could not augment, in the smallest degree, the quantity of money to be lent. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The capital of the country, though it might nominally be the same, would really be augmented. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Its agriculture, manufactures, and trade, on the contrary, the annual produce of its land and labour, have evidently been augmented. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- His original curiosity augmented every day, as he watched for her, saw or did not see her, and speculated about her. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- On the contrary, it would, in most cases, be augmented. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- This difference in the imagination has a suitable effect on the passions; and this effect is augmented by another circumstance. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- They had, before this, gradually augmented their dividend from about six to ten per cent. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- This greater abundance, as it must necessarily have increased their enjoyments, so it must likewise have augmented their industry. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- A like reflection on general rules keeps us from augmenting our belief upon every encrease of the force and vivacity of our ideas. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- The increase of their produce would increase the population of the country, by augmenting the revenue and consumption of the people. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The high price of lean cattle, by augmenting the value of uncultivated land, is like a bounty against improvement. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- And that this circumstance has a considerable effect in augmenting its influence, will appear afterwards in examining the nature of malice and envy. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- Here were two machines destined to be joined together, economizing space, enhancing economy, augmenting capacity, reducing investment, and increasing dividends. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- From mines, too, is drawn what is necessary for maintaining and augmenting that part of it which consists in money. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Comparison is in every case a sure method of augmenting our esteem of any thing. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- His pain, considered in itself, is painful to us, but augments the idea of our own happiness, and gives us pleasure. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- In the other, there is often a scarcity, which necessarily augments their value. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The monopoly, indeed, raises the rate of mercantile profit and thereby augments somewhat the gain of our merchants. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The last form neither augments nor diminishes visible objects; the concave diminishes them, the convex increases them, but both show them blurred and indistinct. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
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