单词 | proliferate | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
释义 | proliferatepro‧lif‧e‧rate /prəˈlɪfəreɪt/ verb [intransitive] ![]() ![]() WORD ORIGINproliferate Verb TableOrigin: 1800-1900 proliferationVERB TABLE proliferate
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Longman Language Activatorto increase a lot► multiply Collocations to increase greatly in number: · Since they started borrowing money, their problems have multiplied.· The number of settlements multiplied enormously.· The insects multiply rapidly during hot, dry summers. ► double to become twice as much or twice as many: · Welfare spending will nearly double by the year 2002.double to: · The number of female bank managers doubled from 104 to 208.double in size/value: · In those thirty years, San Francisco doubled in size. ► triple also treble British to become three times as much or three times as many: · The number of senior citizens living in poverty has trebled in the last three years. · The party's majority in Congress tripled as a result of the election.triple in size/value: · The shares have trebled in value since trading resumed on Wednesday. ► quadruple to become four times as much or four times as many: · In ten years, homicide rates tripled and suicide rates quadrupled.quadruple to: · By the end of 1973, the price of oil had quadrupled to $11.65 a gallon. ► proliferate formal if something proliferates , it increases very quickly, and becomes more common: · The HIV virus is able to proliferate at an astonishing rate.· Child pornography is proliferating due to the increased use of computer chat rooms. ► snowball to increase in number, at first slowly and then faster and faster: · Unemployment snowballed at the beginning of the 1980s.· Things hadn't exactly been going our way, but after the first defeat, everything sort of snowballed. COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSVERB► continue if something proliferates, it increases quickly and spreads to many different places: · Yet the idea of a post-apocalyptic city captivates the contemporary mind and its images continue to proliferate.· Such cultures retain viability and continue to proliferate for approximately I week but changing the medium may extend this period.· Since then, the work has continued to proliferate.· These broader, qualitative questions must be raised and examined as courses for unemployed people continue to proliferate. ![]() |
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