inflates

英 [ɪnˈfleɪts]

美 [ɪnˈfleɪts]

v.  使充气; 膨胀; 鼓吹; 吹捧; (使)涨价
inflate的第三人称单数

柯林斯词典

• V-ERG (使)充气;(使)膨胀;(使)胀大
  If youinflatesomething such as a balloon or tyre, or if itinflates, it becomes bigger as it is filled with air or a gas.
  1. Stuart jumped into the sea and inflated the liferaft...
     斯图尔特跳到海里给救生艇充气。
  2. Don's lifejacket had failed to inflate.
     唐的救生衣未能充气膨胀。
• V-ERG 抬高(物价);(使)(物价)涨高
  If you say that someoneinflatesthe price of something, or that the priceinflates, you mean that the price increases.
  1. The promotion of a big release can inflate a film's final cost...
     大规模发行所需的广告宣传会增加一部电影的最终成本。
  2. Clothing prices have not inflated as much as automobiles.
     服装价格的涨幅不及汽车那么高。
• VERB 夸张;夸大;吹嘘
  If someoneinflatesthe amount or effect of something, they say it is bigger, better, or more important than it really is, usually so that they can profit from it.
  1. They inflated clients' medical treatment to defraud insurance companies...
     他们夸大客户伤势的严重性和治疗情形以欺骗保险公司。
  2. Even his war record was fraudulently inflated.
     甚至他的参战履历也是夸大其词，充满谎言。

双语例句

• That's because customers would be adding the water, which is heavy and inflates transportation costs.
  这是因为消费者会自己加水，而水很重，（如果像原来一样由公司负责加水）会增加运输成本。
• When the consumer price index inflates, to due money, there are no places to hide.
  当消费者物价指数上涨带来货币贬值，他们同样无处可藏。
• It not only increases the platforms of content transmission, but also spreads the channels of content transmission, which inflates the capability of media content transmission.
  它不仅增加了内容传输的平台，还拓展了内容传输的渠道，从而使媒介的内容传输能力空前膨胀。
• The author thought that this is after "the simplification-inflation-simplifies again-inflates again" tries wrong many times, seeks for the new breach.
  笔者以为这是在精简膨胀再精简再膨胀多次试错之后。寻找新的突破口的必然选择。
• Along with the PACS memory request rapidly inflates, we set a higher request for reliability, backup and fault-tolerant of system.
  随着PACS的存储要求迅速膨胀，对系统的可靠性、备份和容载提出了更高的要求。
• Most intelligent algorithms carry out global searching in the entire search space. When the problem scale becomes large, the search space inflates rapidly.
  大部分智能优化算法属于全局搜索算法，都是在问题的全空间上进行搜索，当问题规模变大时，搜索空间迅速膨胀。
• The Chemical Pipeline Inflates the Festival Corrosion Mechanism and the Protection Engineering Research
  化工管道膨胀节腐蚀机理与防护技术研究
• Large African viper that inflates its body when alarmed.
  发怒时身体膨胀的大型非洲蝰蛇。
• Within the third dimension, the balloon has a center, and its surface expands into the surrounding air as it inflates.
  在三维空间中，气球确实有个中心，而在它膨胀的时候，表面也是向周围的空间扩张出去的。
• Is an expert to good expert today which the political power inflates day by day, the right safeguard and the authority restriction are the modern government by law pursue goals.
  在行政权日益膨胀的今天，权利保障和权力制约是现代法治追求的目标。