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To make something go up step by step — pressure, prices, tension — where each step stays and nothing comes back down. A ratchet is a tool that turns one way only, and that is exactly the picture. A news and business word more than a chat word. Can split: 'ratchet up the pressure' or 'ratchet the pressure up'; things can also ratchet up by themselves.
逐步升高、不斷加碼
原始詞典資料1 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。
ratchet upverb
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To increase; especially, to increase by degrees in a way that only gets worse, never experiencing any reprieves.
- Near-synonyms: dial up, hike up
- After all, nations are pouring massive resources into military applications of AI, and many citizens don’t know or don’t care. Yet that quiescent attitude may change over time, as the domestic use of AI surveillance ratchets up, and that technology is increasingly identified with shadowy apparatuses of control, rather than democratically accountable local powers.
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。