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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Newspapers enjoyed a widening circle of readers.
  报纸拥有越来越广泛的读者群。
• 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。
• The gap has been widening.
  这里的贫富差距在日益扩大。
• 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。
• 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。