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 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。
• 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 air bag inflates, a proper sitting position can reduce the risk of injury, and allows you to get the best protection.
  虽然气囊可以拯救生命，这可能导致严重或致命伤害的居民谁太靠近它们，或者没有适当的限制。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• There is a new China active in the currency markets, according to analysts, as Switzerland's battle to weaken the franc inflates its stockpile of foreign currency reserves.
  在分析师看来，现在外汇市场上活跃着第二个中国，瑞士为压低瑞郎汇率而作出的举措，使其外汇储备规模大幅增长。
• 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
• 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。