中英互译
inflate
英 /ɪnˈfleɪt/美 /ɪnˈfleɪt/
基本释义
- v.(使)充气,(使)膨胀;使(价格、成本等)上涨;夸大,吹嘘
第三人称单数inflates
现在分词inflating
过去式inflated
过去分词inflated
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词语例句
(使)充气,(使)膨胀vt.&vi.
Stuart jumped into the sea and inflated the liferaft.
斯图尔特跳进海里给救生筏充气。
The life jacket failed to inflate.
救生衣未能充气。
使(价格、成本等)上涨vt.&vi.
六级The promotion of a big release can inflate a film's final cost.
一部大片的发行宣传会抬高影片的最终成本。
Food prices are no longer inflating at the same rate as last year.
食物价格的上涨率已不再像去年那样高了。
Even when everything around it collapsed, the company kept on inflating.
即使当它周围的一切都崩溃了,公司还在继续膨胀。
夸大,吹嘘vt.
四级They inflated their clients' medical injuries and treatment to defraud insurance companies.
他们夸大了客户受伤及治疗的情况以欺骗保险公司。
Even that percentage is likely inflated by men thrust into their caretaker role by a downsizing.
即使是这个比例,也有可能因为被裁员而投身家庭的男性而被夸大。
- The life jacket failed to inflate.救生衣未能充气。来自《牛津词典》
- The promotion of a big release can inflate a film's final cost.一部大片的发行宣传会抬高影片的最终成本。来自《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
- The principal effect of the demand for new houses was to inflate prices.对新住宅需求的主要结果是促使价格上涨。来自《牛津词典》
相关短语
- inflate cost成本上涨
- inflate profits虚报盈利;虚怡利益;虚报获利
- to inflate充气;上涨;膨胀;打气
- super inflate超膨胀的粘胶纤维
- Inflate tool膨胀工具
- Inflate Cartoon充气卡通
词语扩展
vt.
使充气;使通货膨胀
vi.
膨胀;充气
adj.
v.
inflated膨胀(inflate的过去式和过去分词);使充气;抬高(物价)
- enlarge/extend/stretch/prolong/inflate/expand/increase/multiply/lengthen/add/augment/amplify
- enlarge放大(照片)
- extend使…(在空间或时间上)更大,更长;伸长,伸展,延展;舒展(肢体),extend sth
- stretchvt 拉长,撑大;绵延,延续
- prolong人为的延长时间
- inflate使(轮胎、气球等)充气,膨胀,inflate sth (with sth)
- expand使…变大,扩大,扩展,expand sth into sth
- increase增加,增大(数目、数量、体积等),increase sth from…to…
- multiply成倍的增加
- lengthen指自然的延长时间或空间
- add加,添加,add sth to sth
- augmentvt 增多,增大,augment sth
- amplify特指音量,电流等的扩大
- raise/extend/increase/expand/inflate/add
词义分布
膨胀
61.3%
充气
33.3%
虚增
5.3%
英英释义
- v.fill with gas or air
- v.exaggerate or make bigger
- v.cause prices to rise by increasing the available currency or credit
- v.increase the amount or availability of, creating a rise in value
- v.become inflated
- v.to fill something with air
给…充气- You should inflate tyres to the level recommended by the manufacturer.你得给轮胎充气充到制造商推荐的水平。
词源
- inflate充气,膨胀in-,进入,使,-flat,吹,鼓起,词源同blow,conflate.引申词义充气,膨胀。
- inflate使充气(于轮胎、气球等),(使)膨胀;(使)通货膨胀,物价上涨词根词缀: in-入,向内 + -flat-吹 + -e