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inflation

英 [ɪn'fleɪʃ(ə)n] 美[ɪn'fleʃən]
  • n. 膨胀;通货膨胀;夸张;自命不凡

英英释意


1. a general and progressive increase in prices;
"in inflation everything gets more valuable except money"
2. (cosmology) a brief exponential expansion of the universe (faster than the speed of light) postulated to have occurred shortly after the big bang
3. lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity
4. the act of filling something with air