expansion

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  • n.扩张；膨胀；扩展；扩大
  • Web扩充；发展；展开
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Expansion
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扩张；扩展；扩大；膨胀an act of increasing or making sth increase in size, amount or importance
a period of rapid economic expansion
经济迅猛发展期
Despite the recession the company is confident of further expansion.
尽管经济衰退，公司对进一步扩展仍充满信心。
The book is an expansion of a series of lectures given last year.
本书是去年举行的系列讲座的扩充。

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As for the beef supply, she adds that "cattle herds are in contraction worldwide and with feed prices like this, don't expect expansion" .
至于牛肉供应，她补充表示：“世界各地的生牛存栏数量都在减少，像这样的饲料价格，就别指望数量会增加了。”
zhì yú niú ròu gōng yìng , tā bǔ chōng biǎo shì : " shì jiè gè dì de shēng niú cún lán shù liàng dōu zài jiǎn shǎo , xiàng zhè yàng de sì liào jià gé , jiù bié zhǐ wàng shù liàng huì zēng jiā le 。 "
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Economic development is of course a euphemism for an expansion of political influence and a state-endorsed land grab.
当然，发展经济即是扩张政治影响力的托辞，还是占有土地的全民认可的形式。
dāng rán , fā zhǎn jīng jì jí shì kuò zhāng zhèng zhì yǐng xiǎng lì de tuō cí , hái shì zhàn yǒu tǔ dì de quán mín rèn kě de xíng shì 。
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Aliases are a simple mechanism that enable you to provide an expansion for a given sequence.
别名是一种简单的机制，允许您为给定的序列提供展开形式。
bié míng shì yī zhǒng jiǎn dān de jī zhì , yǔn xǔ nín wèi gěi dìng de xù liè tí gōng zhǎn kāi xíng shì 。
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Bernanke's plan seems to be to devalue the dollar against gold with huge monetary expansion, causing nominal equity values to rise.
伯南克的计划似乎是用巨大的货币扩张来相对黄金地贬值美元，导致名义上的股价将上升。
bó nán kè de jì huà sì hū shì yòng jù dà de huò bì kuò zhāng lái xiāng duì huáng jīn de biǎn zhí měi yuán , dǎo zhì míng yì shàng de gǔ jià jiāng shàng shēng 。
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We now have rules for sub games. Of course, only Shahrazad, from the Arabian Nights expansion, takes advantage of these rules at the moment.
我们对子游戏现在也有了规定。当然，只有阿拉伯之夜系列的“撒哈拉萨德”才能在那个时候拥有规则上的优势。
wǒ men duì zi yóu xì xiàn zài yě yǒu liǎo guī dìng 。 dāng rán , zhǐ yǒu ā lā bó zhī yè xì liè de " sā hā lā sà dé " cái néng zài nà ge shí hou yōng yǒu guī zé shàng de yōu shì 。
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Rapid maxillary expansion is a method which is often being used to treat the transverse discrepancy of widths of maxilla.
快速上颌扩展是一种常用的矫治上颌横向宽度不调的方法。
kuài sù shàng hé kuò zhǎn shì yī zhǒng cháng yòng de jiǎo zhì shàng hé héng xiàng kuān dù bù tiáo de fāng fǎ 。
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He said, "However, in light of Jason Jiang's style and with the current speed of expansion of Focus Media, this day is coming soon. "
他说，“不过以江南春的风格与分众现在的扩张速度，这一天很快就会到来。”
tā shuō , " bú guò yǐ jiāng nán chūn de fēng gé yǔ fēn zhòng xiàn zài de kuò zhāng sù dù , zhè yī tiān hěn kuài jiù huì dào lái 。 "
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Between them, African Minerals and expansion at Casa de Pedra will add almost as much iron ore to global supply as India now exports.
这其中，单只非洲矿业及卡萨德佩德拉铁矿的扩产，增加的铁矿石供应就相当于印度目前出口的总量。
zhè qí zhōng , dān zhī fēi zhōu kuàng yè jí kǎ sà dé pèi dé lā tiě kuàng de kuò chǎn , zēng jiā de tiě kuàng shí gōng yìng jiù xiāng dāng yú yìn dù mù qián chū kǒu de zǒng liàng 。
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Credit expansion was one of the "unexpected difficulties" China had encountered in dealing with the worst crisis in decades, Wen said.
温总理说，信用扩张是中国在应对几十年来最严重的危机时所遇到的“没有预料到的困难”之一。
wēn zǒng lǐ shuō , xìn yòng kuò zhāng shì zhōng guó zài yìng duì jǐ shí nián lái zuì yán zhòng de wēi jī shí suǒ yù dào de " méi yǒu yù liào dào de kùn nan " zhī yī 。
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Trying to establish some sort of brand name is an important part of the expansion plans of many textiles companies, for example.
比如，对于许多纺织企业，努力打造品牌都是其扩张计划的重要组成部分。
bǐ rú , duì yú xǔ duō fǎng zhī qǐ yè , nǔ lì dǎ zào pǐn pái dōu shì qí kuò zhāng jì huà de zhòng yào zǔ chéng bù fen 。
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