expand
expand 英 [ɪkˈspænd] 美 [ɪkˈspænd]
vt. 扩张；扩大，扩展
进行时:expanding 过去式:expanded 过去分词:expanded 第三人称单数:expands
- The verb expand means to make something bigger or wider. It might refer to something concrete, as when you blow into a balloon and make it expand, or something more abstract, as when you study to expand your mind.
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- vt. 扩张；扩大，扩展
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1. Metals expand when they are heated.
金属受热会膨胀。
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2. Student numbers are expanding rapidly.
学生人数在迅速增加。
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3. The waist expands to fit all sizes.
腰部可松可紧，适合任何尺码。
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4. an expanding economy
不断发展的经济
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5. We've expanded the business by opening two more stores.
我们增开了两家商店以扩展业务。
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6. I repeated the question and waited for her to expand.
我把问题重复了一遍，等着她详细回答。
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7. Could you expand on that point, please?
请你把那一点详细说明一下好吗？
- expand (v) early 15c., "spread out, open out, spread flat, extend widely;" also transitive, "cause to grow larger;" from Anglo-French espaundre, Old French espandre "spread, spread out, be spilled," and directly from Latin expandere "to spread out, unfold, expand," from ex "out" (see ex-) + pandere "to spread, stretch" (from nasalized form of PIE root *pete- "to spread"). Related: Expanded; expanding.
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