- 1迅速擴散、大量增生（細胞多用「增生」，武器、店家多用「擴散／激增」）
If something proliferates, it increases quickly and spreads to many different places. It does not just grow a little; it multiplies and turns up everywhere. Cells in the body can proliferate — that is why doctors watch a . Weapons proliferate when more countries get them. Coffee shops proliferate when a new one opens on every corner. It is a slightly formal verb: you read it in news and science more than you hear it in the market. Though actually, people sometimes use it as a fancy for become popular, but a song can be popular without proliferating. The word is about number and spread — more of the thing itself, in more places.
組成A back-formation from the noun proliferation: people took that noun and cut a verb from it.
同家族的字
- proliferationthe noun this verb was cut from
- prolificsame Latin idea of bringing forth a lot; now “producing much”
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
proliferateverb/pɹəˈlɪf.əɹ.eɪt/
- 1
To increase in number or spread rapidly; to multiply.
- The flowers proliferated rapidly all spring.
- When no certain cure exists, quack remedies tend to proliferate and the history of quackery and secret cures is full of extraordinary forms of treatment for the various arthritic disorders.
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