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

• The king sought to aggrandize himself at the expense of his people.
  国王以牺牲百姓为代价来扩大自己的权势。
• 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。
• Furthermore, the second part probes into the reason of the situation, including objective reasons and subjective reasons. Indeed, it should be pointed out that although women status were greatly improved, we can not aggrandize the improvement.
  第二部分探讨产生这种表现的原因，包括客观原因和主观原因。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。
• 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。
• Our new enforcement system comprise the chaos and twist of nature of power, it aggrandize the executive enforcement power and debase the judicial enforcement power.
  我国的新执行体制中隐藏着两种执行权的混乱和扭曲，它彰显了执行权的行政性，却实际忽略了司法性。
• As an important part of electric power system stabilization, voltage stabilization and its content aggrandize the connotation of power system stabilization.
  电压稳定作为电力系统稳定的一个重要部分，其内容和研究方法大大丰富了电力系统稳定的内涵。电压稳定研究的历史已有二二十多年，成果不断涌现。
• The Jews were kind of caught, therefore, on the border, so Judea at this time was on the border between these two empires and they were constantly fighting trying to aggrandize their own kingdoms.
  犹太人几乎是正好处在边境，朱迪亚当时就在两国的边境上，而这两个国家间常常发生战争，企图扩大各自的领土。
• The results show that low temperature is benefit to InP nucleation and the filling ratios of InP aggrandize with PH3 flux increasing.
  结果表明低温有利于InP成核，而InP在空隙内的填充率随成核阶段PH3流量的增加而增加。
• However, there is a degree of fuzziness. People should not aggrandize it.
  然而，模糊是有一个度的，人们不能夸大它。
• Aggrandize the degree to mete out punishment to corruption and strengthen the construction of cadre troops;
  加大惩治腐败的力度，加强干部队伍建设；