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

• The tough tofu quickly inflates in the heat of charcoal fire. It reminds people of fermented flour.
  炭火的热力，让坚硬的豆腐迅速膨胀，这很容易让人联想到发酵的面团。
• If the child inflates a balloon, it becomes bigger as it is filled with air.
  如果儿童充气气球，它就成为更大，因为这是充满空气。
• The video you send me is showing how the glider inflates while you are in training of the forward launch.
  您发给我的视频显示您在起飞培训中伞打开的情形。
• 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
• Within less than a second, however, the shell inflates into a full-fledged airplane with a six-foot wingspan.
  不过还不到一秒钟，炮弹就膨胀成翼展两公尺的完整飞机。
• After political power withdrawal, the civil society and the market had ability to take over control; our country administrative machinery might jump out "the simplification-inflation-simplified again-inflates again" the strange circle.
  当行政权力退出之后，市民社会和市场有能力接管了，我国行政机构就可以跳出精简膨胀再精简再膨胀的怪圈。
• 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。
• What if the bag accidentally inflates while you are driving down the highway, thus causing an accident that would never have occurred otherwise?
  万一你正在高速公路行车时，保险气囊突然意外充气膨胀，从而导致了本来绝不会发生的事故，那么又该如何是好？
• In the real economy, prices changing constantly with price level inflates is a constant source of concern.
  在现实的经济体制当中，随着物价上涨而不断变化的市场价格一直是人们关注的方面。