amplify

英 [ˈæmplɪfaɪ]

美 [ˈæmplɪfaɪ]

v.  放大，增强(声音等); 阐发，充实(故事、事情、陈述等)

过去分词：amplified　过去式：amplified　现在分词：amplifying　第三人称单数：amplifies　

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同义词辨析

amplifyenlargeexpandincrease【导航词义：扩大，增加】

牛津词典

verb

• 放大，增强（声音等）
  to increase sth in strength, especially sound
  1. to amplify a guitar/an electric current/a signal
     放大吉他声音 / 电流 / 信号
• 阐发，充实（故事、事情、陈述等）
  to add details to a story, statement, etc.
  1. She refused to amplify further.
     她拒绝提供详情。
  2. You may need to amplify this point.
     你可能需要对这一点进一步予以说明。

柯林斯词典

• VERB （通常用电子设备）放大，扩大（声音）
  If youamplifya sound, you make it louder, usually by using electronic equipment.
  1. This landscape seemed to trap and amplify sounds...
     这种地貌好像可以笼住并放大声音。
  2. The music was amplified with microphones...
     音乐声通过麦克风被放大。
  3. 'This is the police,' came the amplified voice from the helicopter.
     “我们是警察，”直升机上传来扩音器中的声音。
• VERB 增强；加强
  Toamplifysomething means to increase its strength or intensity.
  1. The mist had been replaced by a kind of haze that seemed to amplify the heat...
     薄雾散了，取而代之的是一种似乎更添酷热的烟霭。
  2. Her anxiety about the world was amplifying her personal fears about her future.
     她对世界的忧虑加剧了她对自己未来的恐惧。

英英释义

verb

• increase the volume of
  1. amplify sound
• exaggerate or make bigger
  1. The charges were inflated
  Synonym:inflateblow upexpand
• increase in size, volume or significance
  1. Her terror was magnified in her mind
  Synonym:magnify
• to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth
  1. tended to romanticize and exaggerate this `gracious Old South' imagery
  Synonym:overstateexaggerateoverdrawhyperbolizehyperbolisemagnify

双语例句

• This landscape seemed to trap and amplify sounds
  这种地貌好像可以笼住并放大声音。
• By advertising widely, a manufacturer can amplify the demand for a product.
  一个厂主能用广泛地做广告的办法来扩大产品的需求量。
• The closure, even temporarily, of payment systems and cash machines would amplify the problems.
  支付系统和ATM机的关闭（即便只是暂时的）可能放大问题。
• I therefore propose to amplify them somewhat before beginning my survey of the drama itself.
  因此，我建议他们稍微放大，然后再开始调查，我的戏剧本身。
• The stimulated signals amplify themselves within the magnetic fields reducing the need for signal regeneration.
  被刺激的信号放大自己在减少对信号再生的磁场之内需要。
• A tube or circuit designed to amplify both voltage and current.
  为放大电压和电流两者而设计的一种电子管或电路。
• A tube or a transistor can amplify an incoming signal.
  电子管和晶体管能放大输入的信号。
• By turning this knob to the right you can amplify the sound from this radio.
  把这个旋扭向右转你就可以增大收音机的音量。
• Introduces a good way that capitalizes power transistors of PNP pattern to amplify output current.
  提出了利用PNP型功率晶体管来扩展集成电源器件输出电流的方法。
• The mist had been replaced by a kind of haze that seemed to amplify the heat
  薄雾散了，取而代之的是一种似乎更添酷热的烟霭。