Dilate
[daɪ'leɪt;dɪ-] or [daɪˈlet]
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To expand; to distend; to enlarge or extend in all directions; to swell; -- opposed to contract; as, the air dilates the lungs; air is dilated by increase of heat.
(v. t.) To enlarge upon; to relate at large; to tell copiously or diffusely.
(v. i.) To grow wide; to expand; to swell or extend in all directions.
(v. i.) To speak largely and copiously; to dwell in narration; to enlarge; -- with on or upon.
(a.) Extensive; expanded.
艾琳編輯
同義詞及近義詞:
v. a. Expand, extend, enlarge, widen, distend, swell.
v. n. [1]. Expand, widen, be distended.[2]. Expatiate, descant, enlarge, dwell, be diffuse, be prolix, launch out, branch out, spin a long yarn, beat about the bush.
手打:梅尔瓦
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Stretch, widen, expand, swell, distend, enlarge, descant, expatiate
ANT:Narrow, contract, restrict, constrict, particularize, dissect, anatomize,concentrate, epitomize, condense
杰克逊整理
解釋/意思:
v.t. to spread out in all directions: to enlarge: the opposite of contract.—v.i. to widen: to swell out: to speak at length.—ns. Dilātabil′ity Dilāt′ancy Dilatā′tion Dilā′tion expansion.—adjs. Dilāt′able that may be dilated or expanded; Dilā′tant.—ns. Dī′latātor Dilāt′or Dilāt′er.—adj. Dilāt′ive.
吉纳维芙校對
例句/造句/用法:
- That the pupil did not dilate and contract seems additional proof that the fish must have lived at a depth of probably fifteen hundred or two thousand feet, where there is little light. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- I do not care to dilate upon the exploded pretensions of Mr. and Mrs. Grundy. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Her dark blue eyes, in their wetness of tears, dilated as if she was startled in her very soul. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Her dark, dilated eyes rested on Birkin, as if she could conjure the truth of the future out of him, as out of some instrument of divination. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- She was watching him all the time with her dark, dilated, inchoate eyes. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- This dilated until it filled the room, and impelled me to take a candle and go in and look at my dreadful burden. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- Her eyes were bright, their pupils dilated, her cheeks seemed rosier, and fuller than usual. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- However, the intense darkness dilated the pupils of our eyes so as to make them very sensitive, and we could just see at times the outlines of the road. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- A pleasant glow dilated Archer's heart. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- Shirley leaned forwards on the table, her nostrils dilating a little, her taper fingers interlaced and compressing each other hard. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Dilating and dilating since the sun went down last night, it has gradually swelled until it fills every void in the place. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
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