exacerbating

英 [ɪɡˈzæsəbeɪtɪŋ]

美 [ɪɡˈzæsərbeɪtɪŋ]

v.  使恶化; 使加剧; 使加重
exacerbate的现在分词

柯林斯词典

• VERB 使恶化;使加剧
  If somethingexacerbatesa problem or bad situation, it makes it worse.
  1. Mr Powell-Taylor says that depopulation exacerbates the problem...
     鲍威尔-泰勒先生说人口的急剧减少使得该问题更加严重。
  2. Longstanding poverty has been exacerbated by racial divisions.
     种族分化已经加剧了长期的贫困问题。

英英释义

adj

• making worse
  Synonym:aggravatingexasperating

双语例句

• The emissions from heavy-duty vehicles significantly degrade urban and regional air quality, while exacerbating global climate change.
  载重汽车排放在加剧全球气候变化的同时，将严重降低城市和地区空气质量。
• That would force Greece to make even larger cuts in government spending, further exacerbating its economic woes.
  这将使希腊削减更多政府开支，进一步加剧经济形势恶化。
• The importance of trade in exacerbating inequality is often overstated.
  贸易在加剧不平等方面的重要性常常被夸大。
• Turkish dam projects have also played a role in drying out Iraqi wetlands downstream and exacerbating tensions in Syria.
  土耳其的一些水坝项目也在一定程度上导致处在下游的伊拉克湿地干涸，并加剧了叙利亚的紧张局势。
• Second, further exacerbating the social gap between rich and poor.
  第二，进一步加剧了社会贫富差距。
• Commodity analysts and traders blame the export restrictions for exacerbating the 2007-08 food crisis that triggered panic buying among importers.
  大宗商品分析师与交易商认为，这些出口限制措施加剧了2007-08年的粮食危机，引发了进口国家的恐慌购买。
• Exacerbating these internal fault lines within western economies are those in the world economy.
  世界经济的内在断层又加剧了西方经济体的内在断层。
• The Asia financial crisis and the SARS epidemic were devastating blows to the territory in 1998 and 2002 respectively, but public policy controlling the supply of land and the provision of public housing was widely blamed for exacerbating and prolonging the property market decline.
  亚洲金融危机和非典（sars）疫情分别在1998年和2002年对香港造成了毁灭性打击，但人们普遍将控制土地供应和公屋供应的公共政策归咎为加剧并延长房地产市场滑坡的罪魁祸首。
• Former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan said climate change is exacerbating the problems faced by poor nations.
  前联合国秘书长安南说，气候变化加剧了贫穷国家所面临的问题。
• That increased the spread between the rates for Treasuries and mortgages, exacerbating the crisis that officials had been trying to resolve.
  这扩大了美国国债与按揭利率之间的息差，从而进一步加剧了政府官员努力想解决的危机。