escalate
escalate 英 [ˈeskəleɪt] 美 [ˈɛskəˌlet]
v. 加剧，上升
进行时:escalating 过去式:escalated 过去分词:escalated 第三人称单数:escalates
- If an argument between you and your brother progresses from mean looks to a fist fight, you could say that the tension between the two of you escalated. To escalate is intensify or increase quickly.
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- v. 加剧，上升
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1. The fighting escalated into a full-scale war.
这场交战逐步扩大为全面战争。
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2. the escalating costsof health care
逐渐增加的保健费用
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3. We do not want to escalate the war.
我们不想让战争升级。
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4. an escalation in food prices
食品价格的不断上涨
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5. further escalation of the conflict
冲突的进一步加剧
- escalate (v.) 1922, "to use an escalator," back-formation from escalator, replacing earlier verb escalade (1801), from the noun escalade. Escalate came into general use with a figurative sense of "raise" from 1959 (intrans.), originally in reference to scenarios for possible nuclear war. Related: Escalated; escalating. Transitive figurative sense is by 1962.
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