Magnify
['mægnɪfaɪ] or ['mæɡnɪfaɪ]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) increase in size, volume or significance; 'Her terror was magnified in her mind'.
亚历山大校對--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To make great, or greater; to increase the dimensions of; to amplify; to enlarge, either in fact or in appearance; as, the microscope magnifies the object by a thousand diameters.
(v. t.) To increase the importance of; to augment the esteem or respect in which one is held.
(v. t.) To praise highly; to land; to extol.
(v. t.) To exaggerate; as, to magnify a loss or a difficulty.
(v. i.) To have the power of causing objects to appear larger than they really are; to increase the apparent dimensions of objects; as, some lenses magnify but little.
(v. i.) To have effect; to be of importance or significance.
埃尔韦拉錄入
同義詞及近義詞：
v. a. [1]. Enlarge, augment, amplify, exaggerate, make great, increase the size of (to the eye).[2]. Extol, exalt, elevate, celebrate, glorify, bless, laud, praise highly.
手打:莎伦
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Enlarge, amplify, increase, augment, exaggerate, laud, extol
ANT:Diminish, contract, curtail, palliate, extenuate, decry
整理:韦尔登
解釋/意思:
v.t. to make great or greater: to enlarge: to cause to appear greater: to exaggerate: to praise highly:—pa.p. mag′nified.—adjs. Mag′nifiable that may be magnified; Magnif′ic -al great: splendid: noble.—adv. Magnif′ically in a magnificent manner.—ns. Magnificā′tion act of magnifying: increase of visual power in penetration as well as enlargement; Mag′nifier one who or that which magnifies or enlarges: one who extols.—Magnify one's self show great pride—against oppose with pride; Magnifying glass in optics a convex lens objects seen through it having their apparent dimensions increased.
埃米莉錄入
例句/造句/用法:
- It is a pity but their office could magnify them; but it does nought o' t' soart. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Are not the tragic poets wise who magnify and exalt the tyrant, and say that he is wise by association with the wise? 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- You poor superficial Englishman, it is to magnify my own self-control. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- But Madame was before me; she had stepped out suddenly; she seemed to magnify her proportions and amplify her drapery; she eclipsed me; I was hid. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Fish globes magnify the fish that swim within. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- It only looked like a considerably magnified bedstead--nothing more. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- His lamp was pronounced a fake, a myth, possibly a momentary success magnified to the dignity of a permanent device by an overenthusiastic inventor. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- The image, magnified by the lenses of the electric lamp, could thus be distinctly seen without being too brilliant to dazzle the eyes. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- In the compound two or more lenses are so arranged that the image formed by one is magnified by the others, and viewed as if it were the object itself. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Every sound she magnified into the stealthy creeping of a sinuous and malignant body. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- In this process of transmission there is a certain loss of light, and to allow for that the image is magnified to about one-quarter above natural size. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- The disc of the full moon, however highly magnified, presents, as is well-known, the appearance of a flat surface, with the lights and shadows marked seemingly on a plane. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- This he opened and made a very careful examination of the sill with his powerful magnifying lens. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- Hearing that this was impossible, he next sent for a magnifying-glass, and tried how the smear looked, seen that way. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Reproductions were obtained in the same way, positive prints being observed through a magnifying glass. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Look at that with your magnifying glass, Mr. Holmes. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- They range from mere specks scarcely visible with a powerful magnifying glass, to large black spots or clusters of large or small black specks sometimes quite plain to the naked eye. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- As he held the waxen print close to the blood-stain, it did not take a magnifying glass to see that the two were undoubtedly from the same thumb. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- Somebody put a drop under a magnifying-glass and it was all semicolons and parentheses, said Mrs. Cadwallader. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Why is it that darkness so magnifies our dangers? 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- Soon he had greatly improved upon his model, and had an instrument, which, as he said, magnifies things as much as 50,000 times, so that one sees a fly as large as a hen. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
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