-fold

短语

乘以；…倍；由…部分组成

发音

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释义与例句

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  1. 1.

    Used to make adjectives meaning times.

    倍

    There has been a threefold increase in inflation ( = inflation is three times what it was before)

    The cancer tissue in two of the ... specimens ... exhibited a dramatic 23-fold increase in the laminin-receptor-mRNA levels.

  2. 2.

    Used to make adverbs meaning times.

    Inflation has increased threefold ( = inflation is three times what it was before)

词源

From Middle English -fold, -fald, -fauld, from Old English -feald (“-fold”), from Proto-West Germanic *-falþ, from Proto-Germanic *-falþaz (“-fold”), from Proto-Indo-European *-poltos (“-fold”), from *pel- (“to fold”). Cognate with Dutch -voud, Swedish -faldig (“-fold”), Latin -plus, -plex, Ancient Greek -παλτος (-paltos), -πλος (-plos), -πλόος (-plóos). More at fold.

来源：wiktionary