1 VERB 添加；增加；掺加 If you add one thing to another, you put it in or on the other thing, to increase, complete, or improve it. 添加；增加；掺加 [Also VERB n]
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Add the grated cheese to the sauce. [VERB noun + to]
把磨碎的干酪加到调味汁里。
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Since 1908, chlorine has been added to drinking water. [be VERB-ed + to]
自1908年以来氯就被添加进饮用水当中。
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He wants to add a huge sports complex to Binfield Manor. [VERB noun + to]
他想给宾菲尔德庄园加盖一个大型综合体育场。
SYN include, attach, supplement, increase by
2 VERB 加 If you add numbers or amounts together, you calculate their total. 加
SYN count up, total, reckon, sum up
Add up means the same as
add .
add up同add -
More than a quarter of seven year-olds cannot add up properly.
7岁的孩子中1/4以上都不会正确地做加法运算。
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We just added all the numbers up and divided one by the other.
我们只是将所有的数字相加并用一个除以另一个。
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He said the numbers simply did not add up.
他说这些数字根本对不上。
3 VERB 增添；增加 If one thing adds to another, it makes the other thing greater in degree or amount. 增添；增加
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This latest incident will add to the pressure on the government. [VERB + to]
最近的这次事件将会给政府增加压力。
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Smiles, nods, and cheerful faces added to the general gaiety. [VERB to noun]
微笑、点头和喜洋洋的脸庞使喜庆的气氛变得更浓了。
4 VERB 增加，增添（特色） To add a particular quality to something means to cause it to have that quality. 增加，增添（特色）
5 VERB 补充说;进一步说 If you add something when you are speaking, you say something more. 补充说;进一步说
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'You can tell that he is extremely embarrassed,' Mr Brigden added. [VERB with quote]
“你能看出他尴尬极了，”布里格登先生补充道。
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The President agreed, adding that he hoped for a peaceful solution. [VERB that]
总统表示赞同并补充说他希望和平解决。
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Hunt added his congratulations, saying 'Nigel has made a cracking job of it'. [VERB noun]
亨特在致完贺词后又补了一句：“奈杰尔干得棒极了。”
SYN continue to speak, go on, carry on, persist
6 PHRASE [VERB inflects] 另外；再者 You use added to this or added to that to introduce a fact that supports or widens what you are saying. 另外；再者
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More than 750 commercial airliners were involved in fatal accidents last year. Added to that were the 1,550 smaller aircraft.
去年750多家商业航空公司遭遇过人员死亡的事故。另外还有1,550架小型飞机也出过同样的事故。
7 to add insult to injury→see: insult
Phrasal verbs: - add inadd onadd upadd up to
| Thesaurus | add Also look up: |
| VERB. | put on, throw in 1 calculate, tally, total; (ant.) reduce, subtract 2 augment, increase; (ant.) lessen, reduce 3 |
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