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

• Large African viper that inflates its body when alarmed.
  发怒时身体膨胀的大型非洲蝰蛇。
• That is a bad approach, because it inflates the denominator.
  那是不好的手段，因为无形中扩大了分母。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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？
• If the passenger sits too close to the dashboard, when the front seat air bag inflates, the passenger could be injured.
  乘客谁坐在太近，仪表板也可能受到损害，如果前面气囊膨胀。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。