expands

英 [ɪkˈspændz]

美 [ɪkˈspændz]

v.  扩大，增加，增强(尺码、数量或重要性); 扩展，发展(业务); 细谈; 详述; 详细阐明
expand的第三人称单数

柯林斯词典

• V-ERG 扩充;扩大;增加
  If somethingexpandsoris expanded, it becomes larger.
  1. Engineers noticed that the pipes were not expanding as expected...
     工程师注意到管道并没有如预期那样膨胀。
  2. The money supply expanded by 14.6 per cent in the year to September...
     截至9月，当年的货币供应增加了14.6％。
  3. We have to expand the size of the image.
     我们不得不放大图像的尺寸。
  4. ...a rapidly expanding universe.
     迅速扩张的宇宙
  5. ...strips of expanded polystyrene.
     聚苯乙烯泡沫条
• V-ERG 扩大；发展；扩展
  If something such as a business, organization, or serviceexpands, or if youexpandit, it becomes bigger and includes more people, goods, or activities.
  1. The popular ceramics industry expanded towards the middle of the 19th century...
     到19世纪中期，大众制陶业得到了发展。
  2. The interest rate's coming down. I'll be able to expand or stay in business...
     利率正在降低，我可以扩大公司或者维持经营。
  3. I owned a bookshop and desired to expand the business...
     我拥有一家书店，想要扩大业务。
  4. Health officials are proposing to expand their services by organising counselling.
     卫生官员计划通过组织咨询来扩展他们的服务。

双语例句

• If a company gets bigger, it expands.
  公司变大了是指公司的营业扩大了。
• So it reduces the cost of project and expands the range of application.
  这样，不仅大大降低了系统的成本，还扩大了系统的应用场合。
• The REST Gateway expands the range of clients that can utilize elastic caching technology.
  RESTGateway扩展了可以利用弹性缓存技术的客户端的范围。
• Iron expands when it is heated.
  铁遇热就膨胀。
• The timber expands as it absorbs moisture from the atmosphere.
  木材吸收大气中的潮气后会膨胀。
• It all expands and collapses as expected in firebug.
  这一切都为扩大和崩溃在Firebug预期。
• In AIX, virtual I/ O ( VIO) expands on this idea.
  在AIX中，虚拟I/O（VIO）扩展了此概念。
• This factory expands to the riverside.
  这个工厂的地界扩展到河边。
• Seam adds to EJB3 annotations and expands the annotation-based programming model to the entire web application.
  Seam加入了EJB3的注解，为整个web应用拓展了基于注解的编程模型。
• When matter is heated, it expands.
  物体受热则膨胀。