widening

英 [ˈwaɪdnɪŋ]

美 [ˈwaɪdnɪŋ]

v.  (使)变宽; 加宽; 拓宽; 放宽; (使)扩展，程度加深，范围扩大
widen的现在分词

现在分词：widening　复数：widenings　

计算机

BNC.13896 / COCA.14378

柯林斯词典

• V-ERG （使）变宽;（把…）加宽
  If youwidensomething or if itwidens, it becomes greater in measurement from one side or edge to the other.
  1. He had an operation last year to widen a heart artery...
     去年他接受了一个扩张心脏动脉的手术。
  2. The river widens considerably as it begins to turn east.
     河流转向东流时河道大幅度变宽。
• V-ERG (使)扩大;(使)扩展;(使)增加
  If youwidensomething or if itwidens, it becomes greater in range or it affects a larger number of people or things.
  1. U.S. prosecutors have widened a securities-fraud investigation...
     美国检察官扩大了对一起证券欺诈案的调查范围。
  2. The search for my brother widened...
     对我弟弟的搜索范围扩大了。
  3. Newspapers enjoyed a widening circle of readers.
     报纸拥有越来越广泛的读者群。
• VERB (眼睛)睁大
  If your eyeswiden, they open more.
  1. His eyes widened as he spoke the words.
     他说这番话时眼睛瞪大了。
• V-ERG (使)(差距)拉大
  If a difference or gapwidensor if somethingwidensit, it becomes greater.
  1. Wage differences in the two areas are widening...
     两个地区的工资差距正在拉大。
  2. The US trade deficit widened to $7.59 billion in November.
     11月美国的贸易赤字扩大到75.9亿美元。
  3. ...policies that widen the gap between the rich and the poor.
     拉大贫富差距的政策

英英释义

noun

• the act of making something wider
  Synonym:broadening
• a part of a road that has been widened to allow cars to pass or park
  Synonym:turnout
• an increase in width
  Synonym:broadening

双语例句

• Newspapers enjoyed a widening circle of readers.
  报纸拥有越来越广泛的读者群。
• Define conversion operators to simplify narrowing and widening conversions between numeric types.
  ·定义转换操作符来简化数字类型之间的缩小和放大转换。
• Yet these great deals come at the expense of our jobs and wages, and widening inequality.
  然而，这些划算买卖的代价是我们的就业和薪酬，以及日益扩大的社会不平等。
• Whatever its cause, the fear and suspicion are fierce, and have fed a widening loathing of foreigners.
  无论原因何在，恐惧和猜疑都是很强烈的，并且激起了对外国人的日益增加的嫌恶。
• The gap in potential growth between the industrialised countries and the emerging market countries is widening.
  工业化国家与新兴市场国家之间潜在增长率的差距正在扩大。
• These negative effects, in the common in the country rich and poor widening gap has reached unheard-of levels.
  这些负面效应是，在普遍的国家内贫富差距越拉越大，已经达到了前所未有的程度。
• The widening gap between the rich and poor has become the most burning social issue in China.
  贫富差距的拉大已经成为中国社会一个最严重的问题。
• Widening inequities in health outcome within and between countries;
  在国家之内和国家之间存在且又不断扩大的健康结果不公平现象；
• He stresses that a further widening of the urban-rural income gap, already 3.3:1, would be explosive.
  他强调，城乡收入差距（目前为3.3：1）的进一步扩大将是爆炸性的。
• The study may be useful to the selection, design and construction of subgrade treatments in highway widening engineering.
  研究成果对路基拓宽工程中处治措施的选择、设计和施工具有重要的借鉴和指导意义。