| 正面 | 7675.escalate 英 ['eskəleɪt]美 ['ɛskəlet]     |
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| 背面 |     释义： 1. 音：墨客，古时的文人墨客经常写文章嘲弄现实,针砭时弊。2. 谐音“模客”-----模仿客-----模仿客人、模仿的客人、模仿的人。3. monkey 猴子经常模仿人，比喻嘲笑。vi. 逐步增强；逐步升高vt. 使逐步上升 例句： 1. Costs can escalate terrifyingly.成本的上涨速度会很惊人。 escalate 加剧，恶化e-, 缓音字母。-scala, 梯子，词源同ascend, echelon.比喻义加剧，恶化。 escalateescalate: [20] Escalate is a back-formation from escalator [20], which was originally a tradename for a moving staircase first made in the USA around 1900 by the Otis Elevator Company. This in turn seems to have been coined (probably on the model of elevator) from escalade [16], a term in medieval warfare signifying the scaling of a fortified wall, which came via French and Spanish from medieval Latin scalāre, source of English scale ‘climb’. Escalate originally meant simply ‘ascend on an escalator’; the metaphorical sense ‘increase’ developed at the end of the 1950s.escalate (v.)1922, "to use an escalator," back-formation from escalator, replacing earlier verb escalade (1801), from the noun escalade. Escalate came into general use with a figurative sense of "raise" from 1959 (intrans.), originally in reference to scenarios for possible nuclear war. Related: Escalated; escalating. Transitive figurative sense is by 1962." |