proliferate

英 [prəˈlɪfəreɪt]

美 [prəˈlɪfəreɪt]

v.  迅速繁殖(或增殖); 猛增

过去式：proliferated　过去分词：proliferated　现在分词：proliferating　第三人称单数：proliferates　复数：proliferates　

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Collins.2 / BNC.14314 / COCA.12185

牛津词典

verb

• 迅速繁殖（或增殖）；猛增
  to increase rapidly in number or amount
  1. Books and articles on the subject have proliferated over the last year.
     过去一年以来，论及这一问题的书和文章大量涌现。

柯林斯词典

• VERB 激增；剧增
  If thingsproliferate, they increase in number very quickly.
  1. Computerized data bases are proliferating fast...
     计算机化的数据库正在激增。
  2. In recent years commercial, cultural, travel and other contacts have proliferated between Europe and China.
     近年来，欧洲和中国之间的商业、文化、旅游及其他交往发展迅猛。

英英释义

verb

• cause to grow or increase rapidly
  1. We must not proliferate nuclear arms
• grow rapidly
  1. Pizza parlors proliferate in this area

双语例句

• Even for the bacteria that cause tuberculosis, which grow extremely slowly, resistant bacteria can emerge and proliferate within several weeks.
  即使是导致肺结核的细菌，其生长速度非常缓慢，但抗药菌仍可在数周内出现并扩散。
• We continue to pursue our policy of disrupting those who proliferate weapons of mass destruction.
  我们继续执行组织部分人散播大规模杀伤性武器的政策。
• Computerized data bases are proliferating fast
  计算机数据库正在迅速激增。
• Health food shops proliferate in this region.
  保健食品店在这个地区增加了。
• Cancers originally develop from normal cells that gain the ability to proliferate aberrantly and eventually turn malignant.
  癌症源自那些获得增殖异常能力的正常的细胞，并最终发生恶性转化。
• Magazines, books and CD-ROMs proliferate.
  杂志、书籍和光盘只读存储器的数量也激增。
• Research has suggested coffee may in fact cause cells to proliferate or prevent them from being repaired.
  甚至有研究称咖啡将导致细胞增殖或防止修复，因此其具有促进癌症发生的可能性。
• In recent years commercial, cultural, travel and other contacts have proliferated between Europe and China.
  近年来，欧洲和中国之间的商业、文化、旅游及其他交往发展迅猛。
• But the predators vanish when developers chop woodlands into subdivisions, and the mice and their ticks proliferate unnaturally.
  但是，当郊区开发者将大片林地砍伐成小片林地时，老鼠的天敌随之消失，结果老鼠和其身上的虱子就泛滥成灾。
• It's a familiar situation that's only getting worse as electronics proliferate in our lives.
  这是一个熟悉情况的情况却越来越差的电子在我们的生活繁衍。