| 单词 | expand |
| 释义 | ex·pand transitive verb 1. < expanded his thick underlip and stared … with distended eyes — Liam O'Flaherty > 2. < expanded this regiment into a brigade — B.I.Wiley > < we need to expand our factual information concerning the behavior of the economy — L.V.Chandler > < business is expanding its interest in the liberal arts — C.C.Brown > 3. a. < these views he announced and expanded in three monographs — J.S.Bassett > b. < contractions have been expanded and spellings modernized — J.L.Clifford > c. mathematics intransitive verb 1. < each stalk expanding at the top into a … flower head — C.S.Forester > 2. < measure how rapidly the water warmed up and expanded while it was warming — K.K.Darrow > < this trend toward conformity will expand and accelerate — P.H.Odegard > < his mind never expanded; his emotions never deepened — Kenneth Clark > 3. < I propose … to expand on three of these common problems — W.R.Bascom > 4. < the subtle flattery … made the eminent Victorian expand and glow — Osbert Sitwell > Synonyms: < the captain established a tavern here, expanding it after 10 years into an elaborate stone structure — American Guide Series: Pennsylvania > < gradually psalm singing expanded into oratorios and concerts of sacred music — American Guide Series: New Jersey > < she hungered for a full environment in which to expand her new powers — Havelock Ellis > amplify often applies to extending by magnifying the volume or scope or adding details < a pipe organ and an amplifying system over which programs can be sent to the entire town — American Guide Series: Michigan > < it is on the main argument that the book is to be judged, and I must amplify a summary of it — Julian Huxley > swell sometimes applies to an abnormal expanding, puffing up or out, or increasing in intensity or volume < now the trickle continued throughout the war, and swelled to a flood soon after the war ended — William Clark > < Servia's ambitions had been swollen enormously by her successes — A.D.H.Smith > < when at anchor here I ride, my bosom swells with pride — W.S.Gilbert > < a great determination swelled in him — A.J.Cronin > distend applies to an extending out or a swelling out, often brought about by internal pressures, or to an appearance of swelling or protruding < sails distended by the wind > < a stomach distended by gas > < her eyes were black with terror, and so distended that the white showed all the way round them — Edith Sitwell > < when a piece of oratory intended for a public occasion impresses us as distended, which is to say, filled up with repetition, periphrasis, long grammatical forms, and other impediments to directness — R.M.Weaver > inflate usually implies distention or puffing up by or as if by an air or gas or something else relatively insubstantial < inflate a balloon > < inflated currency > < poems inflated with fine language > < the psychological problems of inflated national ego, heroic delusions of grandeur, and theories of historical inevitability — R.A.Newhall > dilate is likely to refer to a swelling or widening of something known or viewed as circular or spherical < arteries dilated by the drug > < the pupils of his eyes were dilated > < some stirring experience, the drastic stimulus given by some masterpiece in an art or by some personal emotion, may swiftly dilate your field of consciousness — C.E.Montague > |
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