inflates

英 [ɪnˈfleɪts]

美 [ɪnˈfleɪts]

v.  使充气; 膨胀; 鼓吹; 吹捧; (使)涨价
inflate的第三人称单数

柯林斯词典

• V-ERG (使)充气;(使)膨胀;(使)胀大
  If youinflatesomething such as a balloon or tyre, or if itinflates, it becomes bigger as it is filled with air or a gas.
  1. Stuart jumped into the sea and inflated the liferaft...
     斯图尔特跳到海里给救生艇充气。
  2. Don's lifejacket had failed to inflate.
     唐的救生衣未能充气膨胀。
• V-ERG 抬高(物价);(使)(物价)涨高
  If you say that someoneinflatesthe price of something, or that the priceinflates, you mean that the price increases.
  1. The promotion of a big release can inflate a film's final cost...
     大规模发行所需的广告宣传会增加一部电影的最终成本。
  2. Clothing prices have not inflated as much as automobiles.
     服装价格的涨幅不及汽车那么高。
• VERB 夸张;夸大;吹嘘
  If someoneinflatesthe amount or effect of something, they say it is bigger, better, or more important than it really is, usually so that they can profit from it.
  1. They inflated clients' medical treatment to defraud insurance companies...
     他们夸大客户伤势的严重性和治疗情形以欺骗保险公司。
  2. Even his war record was fraudulently inflated.
     甚至他的参战履历也是夸大其词，充满谎言。

双语例句

• What if the bag accidentally inflates while you are driving down the highway, thus causing an accident that would never have occurred otherwise?
  万一你正在高速公路行车时，保险气囊突然意外充气膨胀，从而导致了本来绝不会发生的事故，那么又该如何是好？
• When biological information inflates and is displaced, it is also unavailable to assist the body in ascending.
  当生物信息被膨胀和转移时，它们也就无法获得来支持身体的提升。
• Most intelligent algorithms carry out global searching in the entire search space. When the problem scale becomes large, the search space inflates rapidly.
  大部分智能优化算法属于全局搜索算法，都是在问题的全空间上进行搜索，当问题规模变大时，搜索空间迅速膨胀。
• That is a bad approach, because it inflates the denominator.
  那是不好的手段，因为无形中扩大了分母。
• That's because customers would be adding the water, which is heavy and inflates transportation costs.
  这是因为消费者会自己加水，而水很重，（如果像原来一样由公司负责加水）会增加运输成本。
• When the consumer price index inflates, to due money, there are no places to hide.
  当消费者物价指数上涨带来货币贬值，他们同样无处可藏。
• Content: With the rapid development of internet today, network information inflates day by day, facing this numerous information resource, the majority of internet users are increasingly felt themselves to be required information has become more difficult.
  内容摘要：在互联网快速发展的今天，网络上的信息日益膨胀，面对这众多的信息资源，广大网民发现越来越难以获得自己想要的信息。
• If the passenger sits too close to the dashboard, when the front seat air bag inflates, the passenger could be injured.
  乘客谁坐在太近，仪表板也可能受到损害，如果前面气囊膨胀。
• After political power withdrawal, the civil society and the market had ability to take over control; our country administrative machinery might jump out "the simplification-inflation-simplified again-inflates again" the strange circle.
  当行政权力退出之后，市民社会和市场有能力接管了，我国行政机构就可以跳出精简膨胀再精简再膨胀的怪圈。
• The tough tofu quickly inflates in the heat of charcoal fire. It reminds people of fermented flour.
  炭火的热力，让坚硬的豆腐迅速膨胀，这很容易让人联想到发酵的面团。