escalate
英 [ˈeskəleɪt]
美 [ˈeskəleɪt]
v. (使)逐步扩大,不断恶化,加剧
过去分词:escalated 第三人称单数:escalates 过去式:escalated 现在分词:escalating
Collins.2 / BNC.11155 / COCA.7542
牛津词典
verb
- (使)逐步扩大,不断恶化,加剧
to become or make sth greater, worse, more serious, etc.- The fighting escalated into a full-scale war.
这场交战逐步扩大为全面战争。 - the escalating costs of health care
逐渐增加的医疗费用 - We do not want to escalate the war.
我们不想让战争升级。
- The fighting escalated into a full-scale war.
柯林斯词典
- V-ERG (使)扩大;(使)恶化;(使)升级
If a bad situationescalatesor if someone or somethingescalatesit, it becomes greater in size, seriousness, or intensity.- Both unions and management fear the dispute could escalate...
工会和管理层都担心争端会恶化。 - The protests escalated into five days of rioting...
抗议升级为为期5天的骚乱。 - Defeat could cause one side or other to escalate the conflict.
失败可能会导致其中一方将冲突升级。
- Both unions and management fear the dispute could escalate...
英英释义
verb
双语例句
- But the upheavals can escalate quickly and become scarier and even cataclysmic.
但是这些骚乱能快速升级,变得非常可怕,甚至变成大灾难。 - Top international economic leaders said continuing disputes over currencies and trade could escalate and hurt the fragile economic recovery.
国际高级经济领导人称,对货币和贸易的持续争议逐步增强,这会影响脆弱的经济复苏。 - The Taliban seized the moment to escalate their attacks.
塔利班抓住了将进攻升级的时机。 - Tensions escalate and wars erupt over the last remaining habitable land.
在最后的一块居住地上,紧张局面加剧,战争爆发了。 - Concerns continued to mount, meanwhile, that the military confrontation between Russia and Ukraine could escalate beyond Crimea.
与此同时,人们越来越担忧,俄罗斯和乌克兰之间的军事冲突可能升级到克里米亚以外的地方。 - Unfortunately, plague can be difficult to detect and can quickly escalate in severity.
不幸的是,瘟疫可能很难检测和可以快速升级的严重性。 - He also helped to escalate the Afghan war, if with a longer-term vision that is harder to discern.
也许是出于人们更难以认清的长期愿景,他还帮助了阿富汗战争的升级。 - These actions often backfire and escalate tensions.
这些举动常常适得其反,导致紧张关系升级。 - This helps catch problems as early as possible, before they escalate and possibly destroy data.
这有助于在问题升级并可能破坏数据之前,尽可能早地捕捉问题。 - His job was to set policy and to escalate issues that were reported to him.
他的工作是制定政策以及将报告给他的问题升级扩大。