proliferate

英 [prəˈlɪfəreɪt]

美 [prəˈlɪfəreɪt]

v.  迅速繁殖(或增殖); 猛增

过去式：proliferated　过去分词：proliferated　现在分词：proliferating　第三人称单数：proliferates　复数：proliferates　

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Collins.2 / BNC.14314 / COCA.12185

牛津词典

verb

• 迅速繁殖（或增殖）；猛增
  to increase rapidly in number or amount
  1. Books and articles on the subject have proliferated over the last year.
     过去一年以来，论及这一问题的书和文章大量涌现。

柯林斯词典

• VERB 激增；剧增
  If thingsproliferate, they increase in number very quickly.
  1. Computerized data bases are proliferating fast...
     计算机化的数据库正在激增。
  2. In recent years commercial, cultural, travel and other contacts have proliferated between Europe and China.
     近年来，欧洲和中国之间的商业、文化、旅游及其他交往发展迅猛。

英英释义

verb

• cause to grow or increase rapidly
  1. We must not proliferate nuclear arms
• grow rapidly
  1. Pizza parlors proliferate in this area

双语例句

• Helper T cells induce B cells stimulated by the presence of antigen to proliferate into antibody-secreting cells, or plasma cells.
  助手T细胞把受抗体出现而遭到刺激并增殖的B细胞变为分泌抗体的细胞，也就是浆细胞。
• Using various cell and molecular techniques, the researchers discovered that insulin stimulates human keratinocytes in culture to proliferate and migrate.
  通过各种细胞分子技术，研究者发现胰岛素对培养的人角质化细胞有促进增殖和扩散的作用。
• But the predators vanish when developers chop woodlands into subdivisions, and the mice and their ticks proliferate unnaturally.
  但是，当郊区开发者将大片林地砍伐成小片林地时，老鼠的天敌随之消失，结果老鼠和其身上的虱子就泛滥成灾。
• Cancers originally develop from normal cells that gain the ability to proliferate aberrantly and eventually turn malignant.
  癌症源自那些获得增殖异常能力的正常的细胞，并最终发生恶性转化。
• In recent years, these two teams have used engineering and science skills to analyse what they call socio-technical risks, or the dangers that occur whenever complex technological systems proliferate, creating systems of systems that nobody understands.
  最近几年，这两个团队利用工程学和科学技能，对他们所称的社会-技术风险（即每当复杂的技术系统增多、创造出无人理解的系统的系统时出现的危险）进行了分析。
• Results The neurospheres isolated from embryonic human hippocampus possess the ability to proliferate, self renew and passage.
  利用流式细胞仪和细胞生长曲线检测神经干细胞的增殖能力。
• Then, the immune system soldiers can proliferate with impunity, hopefully killing even more cancer cells, he explains.
  然后，免疫系统的士兵就可以无限增殖，有希望杀死更多癌细胞，他解释说。
• Magazines, books and CD-ROMs proliferate.
  杂志、书籍和光盘只读存储器的数量也激增。
• That means that indices become more important, and they proliferate.
  这意味着指数变得更重要，其数量也在激增。
• The cultured cells showed a declined tendency to proliferate by MTT test.
  MTT所反映的细胞生长状态呈下降趋势。