Augmentation
[ɔːgmen'teɪʃ(ə)n] or [,ɔgmɛn'teʃən]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the act of augmenting.
(noun.) the statement of a theme in notes of greater duration (usually twice the length of the original).
(noun.) the amount by which something increases.
錄入:梅利特--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The act or process of augmenting, or making larger, by addition, expansion, or dilation; increase.
(n.) The state of being augmented; enlargement.
(n.) The thing added by way of enlargement.
(n.) A additional charge to a coat of arms, given as a mark of honor.
(n.) The stage of a disease in which the symptoms go on increasing.
(n.) In counterpoint and fugue, a repetition of the subject in tones of twice the original length.
手打:玛吉
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Increase, enlargement, extension, addition, accession.
手打:奥拉夫
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Increase, enlargement, amplification, enrichment, supply, enhancement,addition, acquisition, improvement
ANT:Deduction, detraction, diminution, contraction, withdrawal, reservation,expenditure, loss, waste, detriment, deterioration, impoverishment, reduction,curtailment
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例句/造句/用法:
- An augmentation of fortune is the means by which the greater part of men propose and wish to better their condition. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- When the lease comes to be renewed, however, the landlord commonly demands the same augmentation of rent as if they had been all made by his own. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Volumnia's pet little scream acquires a considerable augmentation of reality from this surprise, and the house is quickly in commotion. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- An augmentation, or a direct raising of the denomination of the coin, always is, and from its nature must be, an open and avowed operation. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- It was a great augmentation of my uneasiness to be bereaved, at this eventful crisis, of the inestimable services of Miss Mills. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- Both operations are unjuSt. But a simple augmentation is an injustice of open violence; whereas an adulteration is an injustice of treacherous fraud. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- She compromised on an augmentation of her territory, twenty million dollars' indemnity in money, and peace. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Mr. Weston was chatty and convivial, and no friend to early separations of any sort; but at last the drawing-room party did receive an augmentation. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- She, who so gloried in my fame, and so looked forward to its augmentation, well knew that I would labour on. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- This tax was afterwards repealed, and in the room of it was established the window-tax, which has undergone two several alterations and augmentations. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
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