每日壹词:magnify - 碎片时间学英语,桌面背单词

→magni-,巨大的，-fy,做，使。即使巨大。

vt.放大,扩大,夸大,夸张A loudspeaker magnifies the human voice.扬声器扩大人的声音.

verbtransitive
■to make something look larger than it is, especially by looking at it through a specially cut piece of glass放大，扩大

•Although our skin looks smooth, whenmagnifiedit is full of bumps and holes.我们的皮肤看上去很光滑，但放大后却满是坑坑洼洼。

■disapproving
■to make a problem bigger and more important than it really is夸大（问题）

•The hot summermagnifiedthe racial tensions in the community.炎热的夏日加深了社区的种族矛盾。

enlarge, magnify, increase, expand, multiply, augment, amplify

这组词都有“增加，增大”的意思，其区别是：
enlarge: 主要指面积或体积等的扩大。
magnify: 可指用光学仪器使物体看上去显得变大；也指事实上把某物增大，有时用于夸张意味。
increase: 指数量、强度和大小等方面的扩大或增加。
expand: 指范围、程度、体积和尺寸等方面的扩大或增加。
multiply: 通常指自然繁殖而产生的增长，有时也指同类事物数量的成倍增加。
augment: 较正式用词，一般指在原有的基础上增加含量而扩大。
amplify: 在科技中常指声音的扩大或电磁波的增强。也指补充了细节、详述或扩大内容等。此词系正式用语。

exaggerate, magnify

这组词都有“夸大，夸张”的意思，其区别是：
exaggerate: 指有意或无意地夸张或夸大，含强烈“过火”意味。
magnify: 本义为“放大或扩大”，引申用与exaggerate含义类似，但不如exaggerate常用。

magnify, strengthen

magnify: 放大，扩大
strengthen: 加强，强化

enlarge, stretch, expand, reinforce, magnify, amplify

enlarge: v.扩大，多指具体物品如相片的放大。
•enlarge photograph放大照片enlarge a house扩建房屋
stretch: v. (有弹性地)伸展，延伸，并有可能超过限度；伸长、伸出(身体某部位)并绷紧肌肉(尤指在放松后或为了够着某物)。
•The pullover stretched after I had worn it a few times.这件套头毛衣我穿了几次之后就撑大了。
•Having finished their morning work, the clerks stood up behind their desks, stretching themselves.完成了早间工作之后，职员们站到桌子后面伸伸懒腰。
expand: v.指范围、体积的扩大、增大，也可以指内容或细节的充实。
•The balloon expanded, then exploded.气球先是膨胀，然后就爆破了。
reinforce: v.增援，加固。
magnify: v.放大，指用透镜或显微镜使物体看上去大一些。
•His eyeglasses magnify words so he can read them.他借助眼睛把字放大以便能够阅读。
amplify: v.扩大，增加，尤其指通过增强电压或电流使声音扩大；补充叙述(故事、事件等)。
•We must ask you to amplify your statement.我们得请你对你的说法作进一步的说明。

magnifyincrease in size, volume or significance

Tomagnifyis to make something bigger, whether in size or in significance.

A magnifying glass makes things look bigger and when anything is magnified, it gets larger in some way. If your hunger is magnified, you've gotten hungrier. Wearing a heavy coat on a hot day will magnify the heat: you're feeling hotter and hotter. Also, non-physical things get magnified. The press could magnify a story by discussing it over and over, making it a bigger story than it was originally. All types of magnifying make things bigger.