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单词 magnify
释义
magnify
verb[T]
uk
/ˈmæɡ.nɪ.faɪ/us
/ˈmæɡ.nə.faɪ/
to make somethinglooklargerthan it is,especiallybylookingat it through alens:
放大，扩大
Althoughourskinlookssmooth, when magnified it isfullofbumpsandholes.我们的皮肤看上去很光滑，但放大后看却是坑坑洼洼的。
to make aproblembiggeror moreimportant:
加强，使（问题）更严重
Thehotsummermagnified theracialtensions in thecommunity.炎热的夏日加深了社区的种族矛盾。
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Enlarging and inflating
Increasing and intensifying
(Definition ofmagnifyfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

magnify| American Dictionary

magnify
verb[T]
us
/ˈmæɡ·nəˌfɑɪ/
to make somethinglooklargerthan it is,esp. bylookingat it through aspecialpieceofglass:
Althoughyourskinlookssmooth, when magnified you canseea lot of littlebumpsandholes.
fig.To magnify something is also to make itseemmoreimportantor moreseriousthan it really is:
He always magnifies theproblemsandinconveniencesoftravel.
(Definition ofmagnifyfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofmagnify

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When blame, castigation, branding as deficient and dangerous, and exclusion from society's mainstream are added to the equation, the odds against rehabilitation are considerably magnified.
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Part (lower, magnified) and counterpart (upper) showing prominent broad digits.
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The perennial problems over labour, fidelity and resource use within households were magnified by this.
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In turn, these photographs were magnified and then used to effect a comparison between experimentally observed and theoretically predicted streamlines.
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Do computers have a lensing effect that magnifies these issues, or do wholly new issues arise?
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In this regard, selection and deselection issues not only persisted, but were magnified.
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However, as shown by our results, this strategy magnifies their error rates.
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I can only imagine in this context how these effects would be magnified by nineteenth-century performance conditions, with the orchestra not in a lowered pit.
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Once again, the air's stability magnifies the impact of the preceding uncertainties of the recitative.
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Also, any explanation of an increase associated with appreciably older husbands magnifies the differences found for women married to younger men.
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The problem is magnified once one realizes that pre-electoral coalitions have rarely been the focus of scholarly attention in these studies.
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The economic decline in this period is magnified if the increase in population is taken into account.
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The seriousness of the problem is magnified by the frequent prevalence of repeats among all word occurrences.
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The difficulty is magnified when uncertainty in economic or political systems raises questions about the continued availability of resources into the future.
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The concern for air embolism is magnified in children for two reasons.
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