同近义词辨析

enlarge, magnify, increase, expand, multiply, augment, amplify

这组词都有“增加，增大”的意思，其区别是：

enlarge

主要指面积或体积等的扩大。

magnify

可指用光学仪器使物体看上去显得变大；也指事实上把某物增大，有时用于夸张意味。

increase

指数量、强度和大小等方面的扩大或增加。

expand

指范围、程度、体积和尺寸等方面的扩大或增加。

multiply

通常指自然繁殖而产生的增长，有时也指同类事物数量的成倍增加。

augment

较正式用词，一般指在原有的基础上增加含量而扩大。

amplify

在科技中常指声音的扩大或电磁波的增强。也指补充了细节、详述或扩大内容等。此词系正式用语。

enlarge, extend, stretch, prolong, inflate, expand, increase, multiply, lengthen, add, augment, amplify

enlarge

放大（照片）

extend

使…（在空间或时间上）更大，更长；伸长，伸展，延展；舒展（肢体），extend sth

stretch

vt 拉长，撑大；绵延，延续

prolong

人为的延长时间

inflate

使（轮胎、气球等）充气，膨胀，inflate sth (with sth)

expand

使…变大，扩大，扩展，expand sth into sth

increase

增加，增大（数目、数量、体积等），increase sth from…to…

multiply

成倍的增加

lengthen

指自然的延长时间或空间

add

加，添加，add sth to sth

augment

vt 增多，增大，augment sth

amplify

特指音量，电流等的扩大

双语例句

用作及物动词(vt.)

They hit upon another idea to augment their income.
他们又想出一个增加收入的办法。
Hotel workers depend on tips to augment their usually small salaries.
饭店的工作人员主要靠小费来增加他平时微薄的收入。
He augments his income by teaching in the evenings.
他晚上去教书以增加收入。

用作名词(n.)

They hit upon another idea to augment their income.
他们又想出一个增加收入的办法。
It served, however, to augment Carrie's dissatisfaction with her state.
然而，这却增加了嘉莉对自己处境的不满。

权威例句

Tidal ventilation at low airway pressures can augment lung injury.

Antibodies to Tp67 and Tp44 augment and sustain proliferative responses of activated T cells

Thalidomide and immunomodulatory derivatives augment natural killer cell cytotoxicity in multiple myeloma

Transplanted cord blood–derived endothelial precursor cells augment postnatal neovascularization

Bacterial lipopolysaccharide and inflammatory mediators augment IL-6 secretion by human endothelial cells.

Parkinson's disease-associated mutations in leucine-rich repeat kinase 2 augment kinase activity

Modified low density lipoprotein and its constituents augment cytokine-activated vascular cell adhesion molecule-1 gene expression i...

Influenza virus hemagglutinin HA-2 N-terminal fusogenic peptides augment gene transfer by transferrin-polylysine-DNA complexes: towa...

Murohara, T. et al. Transplanted cord blood-derived endothelial precursor cells augment postnatal neovascularization. J. Clin. Inves...

Unique palindromic sequences in synthetic oligonucleotides are required to induce IFN [correction of INF] and augment IFN-mediated [...