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To amplify something is to make it bigger, louder, or stronger. Most literally, it means making sound louder — a speaker amplifies music. But it's used just as often for ideas and feelings: social media can amplify a small rumor into major news, and a good speech can amplify people's excitement about a cause.
放大、增強；擴大(聲音、影響力、感受等)
組成ampli- (from Latin 'amplus', meaning large or spacious) + -fy (to make or cause to become)
同家族的字
- ampleboth come from the Latin word amplus, meaning large or spacious
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
amplifyverb/ˈæm.plə.faɪ/
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To render larger, more extended, or more intense.
- amplify the loudspeaker
- amplify a telescope
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To enlarge by addition or commenting; to treat copiously by adding particulars, illustrations, etc.; to expand.
- Troilus and Cressida was written by a Lombard author, but much amplified by our English translator.
- GCN asked Gill just who this law was aimed at. "Child abusers" he responded. He would not amplify on what he meant by child abusers.
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To increase the amplitude of something, especially of an electric current.
- amplify a signal. It's amplified so you can hear the audio.
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human-scienceslinguisticssciencesTo add content that is not present in the source text to the target text, usually to improve the fluency of the translation.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。