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To escalate means to become bigger, more serious, or more intense - usually used for problems, conflicts, or bad situations getting worse. It can also mean to make something increase step by step, like a price or a demand. It's rarely used for good things getting better; it usually points toward trouble growing.
（衝突、情勢）升高、惡化
組成This word actually came from 'escalator' (the moving staircase), which itself was built from 'scale' (a ladder) - so 'escalate' means to go up, step by step, like an escalator.
同家族的字
- escalatorescalate was formed from this word, both about going up step by step
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。
escalateverb/ˈɛs.kə.leɪt/
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To increase (something) in extent or intensity; to intensify or step up.
- Violence escalated during the election.
- The shooting escalated the existing hostility.
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In technical support, to transfer a customer, a problem, etc. to the next higher level of authority
- The tech 1 escalated the caller to a tech 2.
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To climb.
- Thus, actually a prior uncounselled misdemeanor conviction may often prove to be a boon to one escalating the ladder of crime to the point where he has been convicted of a major aggravated offense.
- They escalated upstairs to the Mall coffee tables.
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rareTo move by escalator.
- Escalator after escalator flowed up to the heights above, […] Dov escalated up beside me, scowling.
- There were people just about everywhere, packing the garish fluorescent-lit corridors, riding in humming golf carts, escalating up and down escalators, floating along on those George Jetson moving sidewalk thingies.
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。