托福词汇同义词解析“accelerate”和“increase”
2017-06-07 | 阅1286
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词汇,每日一词,今天要跟大家分享的是“accelerate”和“increase”。
“increase”应该是非常的熟悉了,这个词最晚初中就应该接触了。既然已经是很熟悉的词汇了,那么“accelerate”和“increase”之间有什么样的关系呢?
Increase: if something increases or you increase it, it becomes greater in number, level, or amount.
常见的词组有 increase by;increase to;on the increase不断增长,特指出现的频率
Japan’s industrial output increased by 2%.
日本工业产量增长了2%。
mugging is on the increase.
抢劫犯罪呈上升趋势。
Smoking can increase the risk of developing heart disease.
吸烟会增加得心脏病的危险。
Accelerate:if the process or rate if something accelerates or if something accelerates it, it gets faster and faster.
Our country should accelerate the economic growth.
我国应加快经济增长。
We should accelerate our research in anomic power generation and speed up the building of atomic power plants.
我们应该加快原子能发电的研究,加速原子能电站的建设。
不难看出,accelerate更偏向于速度方面的增加,而increase更加偏向于数量方面的增加,两者的不同还是很容易分辨的。希望大家在以后的使用中,更加的得心应手喽。