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    escalation查询结果如下:

    音标:[ˌeskə'leɪʃn]
    名词复数:escalation 词频:低频词
    基本释义/说明:n.逐步扩大;增加
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    n.
    逐步扩大;增加
    For example, in 1966 and 1967 military expenditures increased with the escalation of the Vietnam war
    例如1966年初到1967年,由于越南战争的升级,军事开支增加。
    The Southern Poverty Law Center also notes that that is a huge escalation in black-on-white violence from nearly none at the beginning of the 1990s
    南部助贫法律中心也指出,黑人针对白人的暴力犯罪事件正在大幅度增加,而在20世纪90年代初上述情况还少见。
    -扩展释义
    n. 【化学】
    逐步升级,提高,逐步上升
    n.
    1. 逐步上升;逐步扩大[U][C]
    n. 【水利】
    自动调整,不断增加,逐步升级
    -同义词和反义词

    词性:noun

    例句1. an escalation in oil prices’

    反义词系列1
    -escalation的不同词性形态

    形容词 变体/同根词

    escalate的过去式和过去分词
    “For a time, there was an escalated interest in the historical figure following the release of the blockbuster biography.”
    Involving or relating to escalation.
    “The escalatory ladder is far more terrifying than it was on the eve of the millennium.”
    “Yet if he retaliates with more economic sanctions or some military move, Pyongyang might start climbing the escalatory ladder.”
    “Nor can we rely on escalatory steps such as economic sanctions to pressure it as it employs dilatory and diversionary tactics to complete its final solution.”

    名词 变体/同根词

    escalation的复数形式
    “The bank has lifted its official interest rate in a move that could be the start of a series of interest rate escalations.”
    “Owners maintain they are only trying to keep ahead of their costs even though critics say certain escalations could be profit centers.”
    “When looking at outright sale or sale leaseback, investors want credit, lease term, market rents with escalations.”

    动词 变体/同根词

    (transitive) To increase (something) in extent or intensity; to intensify or step up. || (transitive) In technical support, to transfer a customer, a problem, etc. to the next higher level of authority
    “Defeat could cause one side or the other to escalate the conflict.”
    “The cost of the Games has risen to at least 6 billion euros, and many observers expect the costs to escalate even more.”
    “Therefore there is the possibility that a relatively small problem may rapidly escalate into a crisis.”
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