aggrandize

英 [əˈgrændaɪz]

美 [əˈgrænˌdaɪz]

v.  吹捧，夸大(财富、权力或地位); 使(建筑)更宏伟

现在分词：aggrandizing　过去式：aggrandized　第三人称单数：aggrandizes　过去分词：aggrandized　

GRE

COCA.38797

柯林斯词典

in BRIT, also use 英国英语亦用 aggrandise


• VERB 吹捧;抬高（地位）；使…更辉煌
  Toaggrandizesomeone means to make them seem richer, more powerful, and more important than they really are. Toaggrandizea building means to make it more impressive.
  1. At the dinner table, my father would go on and on, showing off, aggrandising himself...
     我父亲在餐桌上总是滔滔不绝地炫耀并吹嘘自己。
  2. ...plans to aggrandise the building.
     扩充该大楼的计划

英英释义

verb

• add details to
  Synonym:embroiderpadlardembellishaggrandiseblow updramatizedramatise

双语例句

• Our new enforcement system comprise the chaos and twist of nature of power, it aggrandize the executive enforcement power and debase the judicial enforcement power.
  我国的新执行体制中隐藏着两种执行权的混乱和扭曲，它彰显了执行权的行政性，却实际忽略了司法性。
• If the control systems of peripherals is reconstructed into central control operation, it would aggrandize the automation level of a power plant.
  改造外围设备的控制系统，使原来分散就地控制的外围设备实现集控运行，将大大提高火电厂自动化水平。
• The novelty and importance of ITS make people aggrandize the devotion to study it by a long way.
  ITS的新颖性和重要性使得人们对其研究的投入大大增加。
• The countermeasures and suggestions of reforming the football league are put forward, which are to establish Chinese football league committee, build the player union, improve the system of league and aggrandize the strength of judicial construction.
  提出了中国足球职业联赛体制改革的对策和建议，即成立中国足球职业联赛委员会，明确中国足球协会权限，规范职业俱乐部，建立球员工会，完善联赛赛制以及加强联赛的法制建设等。
• Aggrandize the degree to mete out punishment to corruption and strengthen the construction of cadre troops;
  加大惩治腐败的力度，加强干部队伍建设；
• In order to aggrandize afresh their power, the powerful countries started aforethought aggression time and again.
  为了重新扩大他们的势力，强大的国家一次又一次发动预谋的侵略。
• The Jews were kind of caught, therefore, on the border, so Judea at this time was on the border between these two empires and they were constantly fighting trying to aggrandize their own kingdoms.
  犹太人几乎是正好处在边境，朱迪亚当时就在两国的边境上，而这两个国家间常常发生战争，企图扩大各自的领土。
• Indeed, it should be pointed out that although women status were greatly improved, we can not aggrandize the improvement.
  当然，应该指出的是，妇女的地位尽管在罗马后期有了很大的提高，但我们不能夸大这种提高。
• The king sought to aggrandize himself.
  国王企图增强自己的势力。
• With the increment of exterior load, the largest displacement of silty surface and the obliquity of cylinder both increase in the two models, and the elastic-plastic model makes those aggrandize more quickly.
  两种模型中，随着外部荷载的增加，泥面最大水平位移和圆筒转角均增加，并且弹塑性模型增加的更快。