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单词 aggrandizement
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ag·gran·dize·ment

noun
/əˈɡrændɪzmənt/
/əˈɡrændɪzmənt/
(British English also aggrandisement)
[uncountable] (formal, disapproving)
  1. an increase in the power or importance of a person or country(个人、国家权力或重要性的)扩大,增加,提高
    • Her sole aim is personal aggrandizement.她唯一的目的就是扩大个人权势。
    • He was a strong and greedy monarch who pursued a course of military aggrandizement from the beginning of his reign.他是一位强大而贪婪的君主,从统治之初就追求军事扩张。
    see also self-aggrandizement
    Word Originmid 17th cent. (in the general sense ‘increase, magnify’): from French agrandiss-, lengthened stem of agrandir, probably from Italian aggrandire, from Latin grandis ‘large’. The ending was changed by association with verbs ending in -ize + -ment.
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