inflation

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n. 胀大, 夸张, 通货膨胀 [化] 充气吹胀; 膨胀

发音

US /ɪnˈfleɪ.ʃən/
其它
UK /ɪnˈfleɪ.ʃn̩/

词形变化

inflations 复数 inflations

别名

infl.

教材释义与例句

名词

膨胀；通货膨胀；夸张；自命不凡

释义与例句

n. B2 Oxf 5000
  1. 1.

    An act, instance of, or state of expansion or increase in size, especially by injection of a gas or liquid.

    可数 不可数

    The inflation of the balloon took five hours.

  2. 2.

    An increase in the quantity of money, leading to a devaluation of existing money, adjusted for by way of higher nominal values.

    通货膨胀

    通胀

    可数 不可数 金融

    Due to inflation, the monthly gym fee is rising by 10% from January.

  3. 3.

    Undue expansion or increase, as of academic grades.

    可数 不可数
  4. 4.

    An extremely rapid expansion of the universe, theorized to have occurred very shortly after the Big Bang.

    可数 不可数 天文

词汇关系

名词

同义词 7

ostentation ostentatiousness pomposity pompousness pretentiousness puffiness splashiness

反义词 2

deflation disinflation

上位词 6

explosion expansion detonation blow-up enlargement inelegance

下位词 4

demand-pull inflation reflation slumpflation stagflation

相关短语

white inflation theory core inflation 核心通货膨胀 taxonomic inflation grade inflation 分数贬值；分数通胀(指因评分过高, 导致得高分者激增而使教学质量下降)；(为提高质量的)标准改变 wage-push inflation cost-push inflation [经] 成本促成通货膨胀 demand-pull inflation [经] 需求促成通货膨胀 credential inflation bottleneck inflation 瓶颈式通货膨胀 bottle neck inflation size inflation lifestyle inflation headline inflation

词源

From Middle English, borrowed from Old French inflation (“swelling”), from Latin īnflātiō (“expansion", "blowing up”), from īnflātus, the perfect passive participle of īnflō (“blow into, expand”), from in (“into”) + flō (“blow”). By surface analysis, inflate + -ion.

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