ballooned

英 [bəˈluːnd]

美 [bəˈluːnd]

v.  (突然)膨胀，涨大; 乘热气球飞行
balloon的过去分词和过去式

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 气球
  Aballoonis a small, thin, rubber bag that you blow air into so that it becomes larger and rounder or longer. Balloons are used as toys or decorations.
  1. She popped a balloon with her fork.
     她用叉子戳破了一个气球。
• N-COUNT 热气球
  Aballoonis a large, strong bag filled with gas or hot air, which can carry passengers in a container that hangs underneath it.
  1. They are to attempt to be the first to circle the Earth non-stop by balloon.
     他们试图完成乘热气球不间断环球飞行的创举。
• VERB （数量）激增，猛涨，快速膨胀
  When somethingballoons, it increases rapidly in amount.
  1. In London, the use of the Tube has ballooned...
     在伦敦，坐地铁的人激增。
  2. The budget deficit has ballooned to $25 billion...
     预算赤字已经猛增到250亿美元。

双语例句

• The rumours soon ballooned into a full-grown scandal.
  流言很快膨胀为丑闻。
• New Delhi's failure to reduce the country's dependence on costly oil imports has ballooned the current-account deficit.
  由于新德里未能降低印度对价格高昂的进口石油的依赖，印度的经常项目赤字大幅增加。
• In Germany, the crisis has ballooned into the worst recession in postwar history.
  在德国，危机已升级为战后最严重的经济衰退。
• Hong Kong's property prices have ballooned 90% since 2009, spurred by a lack of new supply, as well as heady demand from mainland buyers.
  自2009年以来，香港的房地产价格已大幅上涨了90%，这既是因为新增楼盘的缺乏，也是因为来自内地买家的旺盛需求。
• Current account deficits ballooned, with capital inflows accelerating up to the eve of the crisis.
  由于直到危机发生的前夜，资本流入加速，经常账盈余迅速扩大。
• Costs were simply omitted-and eventually ballooned to well over twice the original appropriation.
  建筑成本只是被疏忽了-最终资金的耗费竟然剧增到最初计划拨款的两倍。
• Overhead has ballooned, leaving the company less efficient and productive than it needs to be.
  此外，日常管理费用激增使得公司的效率和生产力都低于应有的水平。
• Over the past 20 years, many countries 'trade with China has ballooned.
  在过去20年间，许多国家的对华贸易大幅增长。
• The things we wanted to keep an eye on have ballooned out of control.
  我们所要关注的事情已经膨胀失控。
• Russian arms sales were only$ 4.3 billion in2003, and ballooned as the economies of their two biggest customers ( India and China) grew larger.
  俄罗斯武器销售额2003年仅为4.3亿美元，作为它的两个最大客户（印度和中国）的经济较大膨胀增长。