augment
augment 英 [ɔ:gˈment] 美 [ɔɡˈmɛnt]
v. 增加；提高 n. 增加；提高
进行时:augmenting 过去式:augmented 过去分词:augmented 第三人称单数:augments
- Do you need to make something bigger, better, or stronger? Then you need to augment it. To augment is to increase the amount or strength of something.
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- v. 增加；提高
- n. 增加；提高
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1. At first this did but augment her grief!
起初,这只增添了她的悲伤!
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2. Furthermore, I will augment the sum to one million.
还有, 我要把金额扩大到一百万元.
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3. While searching for a way to augment the family income, she began making dolls.
为了想法子增加家庭收入，她开始制作洋娃娃。
- augment (v.) late 14c., "become more severe;" c. 1400, "to make larger; become larger," from Old French augmenter "increase, enhance" (14c.), from Late Latin augmentare "to increase," from Latin augmentum "an increase, growth," from augere "to increase, make big, enlarge, enrich," from PIE root *aug- (1) "to increase." Related: Augmented; augmenting. As a noun from early 15c.
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