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Proliferate Nuclear Weapons Quickly Proliferating Growth Proliferation 英

英语单词 proliferate
英美音标 英 [prə'lɪfəreɪt] 美 [prə'lɪfəreɪt]
中文释义 v.繁殖;增生;使 ... 激增;使 ... 扩散
英语例句 (1) Microbes proliferate rapidly.
(2) Health food shops proliferate in this region.
(3) Dishonest vendors proliferate, forcing true entrepreneurs out of the industry.
(4) There is a fear that nuclear weapons might proliferate.
中文例句 (1) 微生物繁殖迅速。
(2) 保健食品店在这个地区增加了。
(3) 无信用的小商贩激增,将好企业从行业中驱赶出来。
(4) 对核武器扩散有恐慌。
vocabulary简明 When something proliferates, it's growing, spreading or multiplying really quickly. Bunny rabbits have a habit of proliferating, as do dandelions in untended gardens and funny YouTube videos on the internet.
vocabulary扩展 Proliferate was originally a biological term used to describe the growth of cells and producing offspring. It wasn’t until 1961 that we started to use proliferate more generally to talk about everything from the spread of nuclear weapons to the wide growth of Walmart. Other similar words include expand, reproduce, snowball, and spawn.
柯林斯解释
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[VERB 动词]激增;剧增 If things proliferate, they increase in number very quickly.
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  [FORMAL 正式]
  • Computerized data bases are proliferating fast...

    计算机化的数据库正在激增。

  • In recent years commercial, cultural, travel and other contacts have proliferated between Europe and China.

    近年来,欧洲和中国之间的商业、文化、旅游及其他交往发展迅猛。

proliferation
  • ...the proliferation of nuclear weapons...

    核武器的扩散

  • Smoking triggers off cell proliferation.

    吸烟会引起细胞增生。

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