- 1激增、擴散
Proliferation means a fast increase in the number of something - things multiplying quickly. You'll often meet this word in serious topics: the proliferation of nuclear weapons (more and more countries getting them), or the proliferation of smartphones (how quickly everyone started owning one). It's a formal word that usually points at growth some people are a little worried about, not just any ordinary increase.
From the word’s history
Borrowed from French prolifération.
借自法文 prolifération。
組成It comes from the verb 'proliferate', which itself comes from Latin roots meaning roughly 'to produce offspring' - the idea of things multiplying like living things reproducing.
同家族的字
- proliferateproliferation is the noun form of 'proliferate' - the act of rapidly increasing
原始詞典資料4 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。
proliferationnoun/pɹəˌlɪf.əˈɹeɪ.ʃən/
- 1
The process by which an organism produces others of its kind; breeding, propagation, procreation, reproduction.
- 2
The act of increasing, rising, or proliferating; augmentation, amplification, enlargement, escalation, aggrandizement.
- One particularly damaging, but often ignored, effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks on schools[…]as children, teachers or school buildings become the targets of attacks. Parents fear sending their children to school. Girls are particularly vulnerable to sexual violence.
- But unlike the flow of capital, this virus seeks proliferation, not profit, and has, therefore, inadvertently, to some extent, reversed the direction of the flow.
- 3
The act of increasing, rising, or proliferating; augmentation, amplification, enlargement, escalation, aggrandizement.
- ... to combat proliferation by assisting them in gaining and assuring greater control over their dual-use equipment and technology. States that gain weapons of mass destruction are able to pose a significant military threat to the[…]
- [Efforts] to fight proliferation will require more than just new targets for collection; intelligence analysis will also have to change. In particular, to support policymakers looking for opportunities to disrupt, slow, or stop a[…]
- 4
The result of building up; buildup, accretion.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。