单词	threefold
释义	threefold /ˈθriːfəʊld / adjective 1Three times as great or as numerous: a threefold increase in the number of stolen cars... Given that the rate of multiple births has risen by 1000 in the past decade, with a threefold increase in triplets alone, any woman contemplating pregnancy may appreciate the existence of their national support network. Most diabetes suffers are waiting 17 months to see a specialist and there has been a threefold increase in the number of patients referred to Beaumont Hospital, Dublin in the past seven years. There will be a threefold increase in the number of cases booked from now till the year end, if we look at the number of cases booked till now. 1.1Having three parts or elements: the differences are threefold... This is the traditional, threefold mystical way of purgation, illumination and union. Firstly, there is a threefold apostolic testimony. It is in relation to the threefold parental authorities that we can best understand Min's metamorphosis from a child-adult to a confused adolescent and then, unfortunately, to an unthinking adult-child. adverb By three times; to three times the number or amount: the aftershocks intensify threefold each time... So even if we do go up threefold this year, we're only talking about 18,000 people. In some areas of the world, rates of obesity have risen threefold or more since 1980. Turnover during the same period rose threefold, from £20.3 million in 1999 to £60.8 million for the nine months to December 2000.
随便看	unpalatably unpaled unpalliated unpalpable unpalsied unpampered unpanelled unpanniered unpanoplied unpanting unpaper unpapered unpapering unparadise unparadox unparagoned unparallel unparallelable unparalleled unparalysed unparboiled unparcelled unparched unpardon unpardonable

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