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单词 escalate
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escalate

/ˈeskəleɪt/
verb
no obj.
1
increase rapidly
迅速增加, 迅速增长:

the price of tickets escalated

票价飞涨

as adj. escalating the escalating cost of health care.

迅速增加的保健费用。

1.1
become or cause to become more intense or serious
(使)增强; (使)变得严重; (使)升级:

no obj. the disturbance escalated into a full-scale riot

骚乱演变成了全面的暴乱

with obj. we do not want to escalate the war.

我们不想使战争升级。

派生词

escalation

noun
词源
1920s (in the sense 'travel on an escalator'): back-formation from ESCALATOR.
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