amplify

verb

1. 放大，增强（声音等）
   to increase sth in strength, especially sound
   1. to amplify a guitar/an electric current/a signal
      放大吉他声音 / 电流 / 信号
2. 阐发，充实（故事、事情、陈述等）
   to add details to a story, statement, etc.
   1. She refused to amplify further.
      她拒绝提供详情。
   2. You may need to amplify this point.
      你可能需要对这一点进一步予以说明。

1. VERB （通常用电子设备）放大，扩大（声音）
   If you amplify a sound, you make it louder, usually by using electronic equipment.
   1. This landscape seemed to trap and amplify sounds...
      这种地貌好像可以笼住并放大声音。
   2. The music was amplified with microphones...
      音乐声通过麦克风被放大。
   3. 'This is the police,' came the amplified voice from the helicopter.
      “我们是警察，”直升机上传来扩音器中的声音。
2. VERB 增强；加强
   To amplify something means to increase its strength or intensity.
   1. The mist had been replaced by a kind of haze that seemed to amplify the heat...
      薄雾散了，取而代之的是一种似乎更添酷热的烟霭。
   2. Her anxiety about the world was amplifying her personal fears about her future.
      她对世界的忧虑加剧了她对自己未来的恐惧。

1. This landscape seemed to trap and amplify sounds
   这种地貌好像可以笼住并放大声音。
2. The music was amplified with microphones
   音乐声通过麦克风被放大。
3. 'This is the police,' came the amplified voice from the helicopter.
   “我们是警察，”直升机上传来扩音器中的声音。
4. The mist had been replaced by a kind of haze that seemed to amplify the heat
   薄雾散了，取而代之的是一种似乎更添酷热的烟霭。
5. Her anxiety about the world was amplifying her personal fears about her future.
   她对世界的忧虑加剧了她对自己未来的恐惧。
6. The new manager wants to amplify the company.
   新经理想要扩大公司。
7. If you constantly think and talk about your partner's flaws it can amplify your discontent.
   如果你不停地考虑并谈论你伴侣的缺点，这会放大你的不满。
8. The encoder electronics amplify these signals and convert them into different output levels.
   入码器电子学放大这些向而且作信号把他们转换成不同的输出层次。
9. By advertising widely, a manufacturer can amplify the demand for a product.
   一个厂主能用广泛地做广告的办法来扩大产品的需求量。
10. Introduces a good way that capitalizes power transistors of PNP pattern to amplify output current.
    提出了利用PNP型功率晶体管来扩展集成电源器件输出电流的方法。
11. Multiple factors will amplify the effects of global warming on agriculture and forestry.
    多种因素将会增加大全球暖化对农业和林业的影响。
12. Excessive use of leverage, derivatives or short-selling have all helped amplify market chaos in the past year.
    对杠杆、衍生品或卖空的过度运用在过去一年中都加大了市场的动荡。
13. A pair of primers derived from this fragment can specifically amplify Yersinia pestis templates.
    根据这段序列设计的引物对可以特异性地扩增鼠疫耶尔森菌的模板。
14. A tube or circuit designed to amplify both voltage and current.
    为放大电压和电流两者而设计的一种电子管或电路。
15. The stimulated signals amplify themselves within the magnetic fields reducing the need for signal regeneration.
    被刺激的信号放大自己在减少对信号再生的磁场之内需要。
16. The closure, even temporarily, of payment systems and cash machines would amplify the problems.
    支付系统和ATM机的关闭（即便只是暂时的）可能放大问题。
17. This will amplify the impact of our activities and our resources.
    这将扩大我们各项活动和资源的影响。
18. An audio-system that can reproduce and amplify signals to produce sound.
    声频信号中频放大器能复制、放大声音形成声音的音频系统。
19. That serves to amplify the transmission of signals from one nerve cell to another.
    它负责放大神经信号的传输从一个神经元细胞到另一个。
20. We are using this transistor to amplify a telephone signal.
    我们正在使用这种晶体管来放大电话信号。
21. A photomultiplier can amplify the signal to detectable levels.
    光电倍增管可将此讯号放大到可侦测的程度。
22. A strain gauge is used as a pressure sensor and an integrated instrument amplifier is used as amplify signals.
    采用应变计作为压力敏感元件，采用集成仪表放大器对微信号进行放大。
23. A tube or a transistor can amplify an incoming signal.
    电子管和晶体管能放大输入的信号。
24. The researchers used a technique called polymerase chain reaction to rapidly amplify tiny pieces of bacterial DNA.
    研究人员使用了一种被称作聚合酶链式反应的方法可以快速扩增细菌DNA的微小片断。
25. By turning this knob to the right you can amplify the sound from this radio.
    把这个旋扭向右转你就可以增大收音机的音量。
26. I therefore propose to amplify them somewhat before beginning my survey of the drama itself.
    因此，我建议他们稍微放大，然后再开始调查，我的戏剧本身。
27. Can you amplify the sound so we can hear it better?
    你能把声音放大点吗？这样我们可以听的更爽？
28. Any repetitive motion involving the fingers can amplify the effects of naturally occurring cartilagedecay.
    包括手指在内的任何一个重复性的动作都会比自然发生的软骨衰退效果严重。
29. We must ask you to amplify your statement.
    我们得请你对你的说法作进一步的表示。

  amplify enlarge expand increase【导航词义：扩大，增加】

  amplify v. 放大

〔辨析〕指放大声音等，尤指音乐声。

  enlarge v. 扩大

〔辨析〕指放大尺寸、面积、容量等。

  expand v. （使）扩大，膨胀

〔辨析〕强调向外扩张。

  increase v. 增加

〔辨析〕指增加数目或数量。

verb

1. increase the volume of
   1. amplify sound

2. exaggerate or make bigger
   1. The charges were inflated

   Synonym:    inflateblow upexpand

3. increase in size, volume or significance
   1. Her terror was magnified in her mind

   Synonym:    magnify

4. to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth
   1. tended to romanticize and exaggerate this `gracious Old South' imagery

   Synonym:    overstateexaggerateoverdrawhyperbolizehyperbolisemagnify