widening

1. V-ERG （使）变宽;（把…）加宽
   If you widen something or if it widens, 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。
2. V-ERG (使)扩大;(使)扩展;(使)增加
   If you widen something or if it widens, 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。
3. VERB (眼睛)睁大
   If your eyes widen, they open more.
   1. His eyes widened as he spoke the words.
      他说这番话时眼睛瞪大了。
4. V-ERG (使)(差距)拉大
   If a difference or gap widens or if something widens it, 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

1. Long-mothballed projects like widening the Suez Canal are being dusted off.
   诸如拓宽苏伊士运河等长期束之高阁的计划正被重新采用。
2. Newspapers enjoyed a widening circle of readers.
   报纸拥有越来越广泛的读者群。
3. Wage differences in the two areas are widening
   两个地区的工资差距正在拉大。
4. We must promote fairness in income distribution and gradually narrow the widening income gap.
   我们不仅要实现收入分配的公平，逐步减少分配收入差距扩大的现象。
5. He was, at first, astonished at this sudden widening.
   开始他感到惊讶，阴渠忽然扩大了。
6. 9. These days we often hear about the widening gap between the rich and poor.
   最近，我们经常听到贫富差距扩大了的说法。
7. 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。
8. The gap between the blue-chip investment wines and the rest is widening all the time.
   优质的“投资级”葡萄酒和其它品种之间的价格差距一直都在扩大。
9. 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。
10. Important though these effects are, they do at least reflect positive-sum developments: rising prosperity and widening opportunity.
    这些影响固然重要，但它们至少反映出一些正和的进展：繁荣程度的提高和机遇的扩大。
11. 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。
12. The North-South gap is widening.
    南北差距进一步扩大。
13. In this paper, the gauge widening and rail overturning under the different parameters of track structure are discussed.
    本文从理论上讨论了在不同轨道刚度条件下的轨距扩大和钢轨侧翻问题。
14. The widening gap between rich and poor is resulting in social tensions.
    中国的贫富差距日趋扩大，正在造成社会紧张。
15. The gap between rich and poor is still widening.
    贫富之间的差距仍在继续扩大。
16. 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。
17. The development gap between the world's rich and poor is widening.
    世界上富国和穷国之间的发展差距正在扩大。
18. The Study on the Widening of the Income Gap's Influence on the Consumption Inadequate of Chinese Resident
    收入差距扩大对我国居民消费不足的影响研究
19. 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；
20. Finally, some important techniques for widening frequency range and improving control voltage of VCO are also proposed too.
    最后，还提出了有关扩展压控振荡器的频率范围和改善其控制电压的关键技术。
21. The margin of the superpowers over non-nuclear states had been widening.
    超级大国和非核国家之间的差距逐渐扩大了。
22. 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。
23. 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。
24. 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。
25. European integration will now take place within the euro zone, widening the gap between ins and outs.
    在欧元区内欧洲融合是不大可能会发生的，加宽内欧洲国家和外欧洲国家的缺口。
26. The urban areas of our country face the dual problems of widening income gap and continued consumption slump.
    我国城镇内部面临收入差距的不断扩大和消费一直不振的双重问题。
27. The gap has been widening.
    这里的贫富差距在日益扩大。
28. 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。
29. A widening gap between the electorate and the elites threatens the fragile compact at the heart of free societies.
    选民和精英阶层之间日渐扩大的鸿沟，威胁着处于自由社会中心的脆弱契约。
30. It has to address its widening income inequality, environmental degradation and aging population.
    包括大范围的收入不均，环境问题和年龄问题。

noun

1. the act of making something wider

   Synonym:    broadening

2. a part of a road that has been widened to allow cars to pass or park

   Synonym:    turnout

3. an increase in width

   Synonym:    broadening