aggrandize

英 [əˈgrændaɪz]

美 [əˈgrænˌdaɪz]

v.  吹捧，夸大(财富、权力或地位); 使(建筑)更宏伟

现在分词：aggrandizing　过去式：aggrandized　第三人称单数：aggrandizes　过去分词：aggrandized　

GRE

COCA.38797

柯林斯词典

in BRIT, also use 英国英语亦用 aggrandise


• VERB 吹捧;抬高（地位）；使…更辉煌
  Toaggrandizesomeone means to make them seem richer, more powerful, and more important than they really are. Toaggrandizea building means to make it more impressive.
  1. At the dinner table, my father would go on and on, showing off, aggrandising himself...
     我父亲在餐桌上总是滔滔不绝地炫耀并吹嘘自己。
  2. ...plans to aggrandise the building.
     扩充该大楼的计划

英英释义

verb

• add details to
  Synonym:embroiderpadlardembellishaggrandiseblow updramatizedramatise

双语例句

• Fire protection of buildings safety evacuation equipment ( 3) aggrandize establishment for;
  强化安全疏散设施建设和管理；
• We should aggrandize investment in agriculture, accelerate adjustment of agriculture structure, improve culture degree of agriculture laborers and carry forward management of agriculture industrialization.
  这就需要我们采取加大农业投入、加速农业结构优化调整、提高农业劳动者素质以及推进农业产业化经营等各种措施。
• In either process, the link of psychological motivation plays a key role. Finally, this thesis points out that the application of deviated rhetoric will aggrandize the communicative effects by means of cognitive foregrounding, cognitive prominence and violating the conventional expressions.
  在产生和理解变异修辞过程中，心理动机环节起到了至关重要的作用。文章最后指出：变异修辞的运用将强化交际效果，具体表现在三方面：认知前景化，认知突显和偏离常规。
• The novelty and importance of ITS make people aggrandize the devotion to study it by a long way.
  ITS的新颖性和重要性使得人们对其研究的投入大大增加。
• Indeed, it should be pointed out that although women status were greatly improved, we can not aggrandize the improvement.
  当然，应该指出的是，妇女的地位尽管在罗马后期有了很大的提高，但我们不能夸大这种提高。
• The king sought to aggrandize himself.
  国王企图增强自己的势力。
• Daidzein can encourage animal growth, improve the immunity of animal, aggrandize milk yield of milch cow, improve the quantity, quality and weight of eggs and enhance the function of breed.
  大豆黄酮具有促进动物生长、增强动物机体免疫力、增加奶牛泌乳量，增加家禽产蛋量、蛋重和品质及提高繁殖机能等生理功能。
• My desired was to aggrandize my estate.
  我所希望的是扩充我的家业。
• With the increment of exterior load, the largest displacement of silty surface and the obliquity of cylinder both increase in the two models, and the elastic-plastic model makes those aggrandize more quickly.
  两种模型中，随着外部荷载的增加，泥面最大水平位移和圆筒转角均增加，并且弹塑性模型增加的更快。
• In order to aggrandize afresh their power, the powerful countries started aforethought aggression time and again.
  为了重新扩大他们的势力，强大的国家一次又一次发动预谋的侵略。