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exacerbate vt.加重(使 ... 恶化；激怒) (1) 皮疹搔後会恶化。(2) 她母亲从中干预使他们的婚姻雪上加霜。(3) 中国陈旧的空中交通控制系统更是雪上加霜。 Exacerbate is related to the adjective acrid, often used to describe sharp-smelling smoke. Think of exacerbate then as a sharp or bitter thing that makes something worse. A drought will exacerbate a country's food shortage. Worsen, intensify, aggravate and compound are similar, but exacerbate has the sense of an irritant being added in to make something bad even worse.

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英 [ɪɡ'zæsəbeɪt] 美 [ɪɡ'zæsərbeɪt] (1) Scratching exacerbates a skin rash.(2) Her mother's interference exacerbated the difficulties in their marriage.(3) China's older air-traffic-control systems exacerbate the delays. For a formal-sounding verb that means to make worse, try exacerbate. If you're in trouble, complaining about it will only exacerbate the problem. 1[VERB 动词]使恶化；使加剧 If something exacerbates a problem or bad situation, it makes it worse.   [V n]  [FORMAL 正式]Mr Powell-Taylor says that depopulation exacerbates the problem...鲍威尔-泰勒先生说人口的急剧减少使得该问题更加严重。Longstanding poverty has been exacerbated by racial divisions.种族分化已经加剧了长期的贫困问题。exacerbation...the exacerbation of global problems.全球问题的加剧

英语单词	exacerbate
英美音标	英 [ɪɡ'zæsəbeɪt] 美 [ɪɡ'zæsərbeɪt]
中文释义	vt.加重(使 ... 恶化；激怒)
英语例句	(1) Scratching exacerbates a skin rash. (2) Her mother's interference exacerbated the difficulties in their marriage. (3) China's older air-traffic-control systems exacerbate the delays.
中文例句	(1) 皮疹搔後会恶化。 (2) 她母亲从中干预使他们的婚姻雪上加霜。 (3) 中国陈旧的空中交通控制系统更是雪上加霜。
vocabulary简明	For a formal-sounding verb that means to make worse, try exacerbate. If you're in trouble, complaining about it will only exacerbate the problem.
vocabulary扩展	Exacerbate is related to the adjective acrid, often used to describe sharp-smelling smoke. Think of exacerbate then as a sharp or bitter thing that makes something worse. A drought will exacerbate a country's food shortage. Worsen, intensify, aggravate and compound are similar, but exacerbate has the sense of an irritant being added in to make something bad even worse.
柯林斯解释	1 [VERB 动词]使恶化；使加剧 If something exacerbates a problem or bad situation, it makes it worse. [V n] [FORMAL 正式] Mr Powell-Taylor says that depopulation exacerbates the problem... 鲍威尔-泰勒先生说人口的急剧减少使得该问题更加严重。 Longstanding poverty has been exacerbated by racial divisions. 种族分化已经加剧了长期的贫困问题。 exacerbation ...the exacerbation of global problems. 全球问题的加剧

Exacerbate Worse Make Bad Exacerbation 英 ɪɡ'Zæsəbeɪt] 美 ɪɡ'Zæsərbeɪt