escalate

• vi. 逐步增强；逐步升高
• vt. 使逐步上升

e-, 缓音字母。-scala, 梯子，词源同ascend, echelon.比喻义加剧，恶化。

1. increase in extent or intensity;

"The Allies escalated the bombing"

escalate

escalate: [20] Escalate is a back-formation from escalator [20], which was originally a tradename for a moving staircase first made in the USA around 1900 by the Otis Elevator Company. This in turn seems to have been coined (probably on the model of elevator) from escalade [16], a term in medieval warfare signifying the scaling of a fortified wall, which came via French and Spanish from medieval Latin scalāre, source of English scale ‘climb’. Escalate originally meant simply ‘ascend on an escalator’; the metaphorical sense ‘increase’ developed at the end of the 1950s.

escalate (v.)

1922, "to use an escalator," back-formation from escalator, replacing earlier verb escalade (1801), from the noun escalade. Escalate came into general use with a figurative sense of "raise" from 1959 (intrans.), originally in reference to scenarios for possible nuclear war. Related: Escalated; escalating. Transitive figurative sense is by 1962.

Facing water shortages and escalating fertilizer costs, farmers in developing countries are using raw sewage ( ' , 下 水道污水) to irrigate and fertilize nearly 49 million acres of cropland, according to a new report—and it may not be a bad thing.

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The fighting escalated into a full-scale war.

这场交战逐步扩大为全面战争。

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the escalating costs of health care

逐渐增加的医疗费用

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We do not want to escalate the war.

我们不想让战争升级。

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[可数名词, 不可数名词]an escalation in food prices

食品价格的不断上涨

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further escalation of the conflict

冲突的进一步加剧

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The protests escalated into five days of rioting...

抗议升级为为期5天的骚乱。

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Both unions and management fear the dispute could escalate...

工会和管理层都担心争端会恶化。

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Shouting may seem necessary, but it tends to escalate conflicts.

大喊大叫也许比较容易, 但是它容易导致使冲突升级.

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A conventional skirmish would escalate into a nuclear exchange.

传统的小规模战斗更有可能逐步升级为核战争.

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So a skirmish could escalate into a war of mutual survival.

所以一场小小冲突也可能激化为双方余下的人员之间的战争.

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Eswar Prasad, professor of trade economics at Cornell University , warned that the disagreement could escalate.

康奈尔大学(CornellUniversity)贸易经济学教授埃斯瓦尔?普拉萨德(EswarPrasad)警告称,这一分歧有可能升级.

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Log trouble tickets and escalate to Level 2 support as required.

登陆问题以及水平2要求的支持.

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The Taliban seized the moment to escalate their attacks.

塔利班抓住了将进攻升级的时机.

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Key accounts servicing in identified region, communicate with department stores to identify, escalate, and resolve issues.

在管辖区域内的重点客户关系建立及维护, 与百货商场主要负责人协调沟通, 确立提升公司形象并解决相关业务问题.

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It would tempt Israel's neighbors to escalate their demands.

它将诱使以色列的邻国不断把他们的要求升级.

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It does not want problems with Japan to escalate.

中国并不希望中日间的磨擦升级.

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But if anyone conceals or fails to escalate a problem, they must be held accountable immediately.

但如果因为某人的隐瞒或失败导致问题升级, 那么他们必须立即承担责任.

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It even has the potential to escalate into a nuclear war.

甚至有可能会演变成另一场核子战争.

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Thursday share market continues to adjust slightly, and warrant market is hot market continue to escalate.

周四A股市场继续小幅调整, 而权证市场的火爆行情则继续升级.

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The indirect effects escalate exponentially as minimum reflux is approached.

间接影响升级指数为最低回流是接触.

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The war continues to escalate.

战争还在升级.

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Fortunately both China and Japan realise that they cannot afford to let these quarrels escalate.

庆幸的是,中日双方认识到他们都承担不起纠纷升级引起的后果.

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Her first album burned up the charts and her fame began to escalate quickly.

她的第一张专辑在排行榜中成绩娇人,其名气也迅速往上窜.

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Even a limited confrontation can escalate into a major war.

即使是局部的对抗也可能扩大成一场大战.

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Accompanying the escalate that uses FDI scale, transfer of technology also obtained enormous result.

伴随着利用FDI规模的逐步扩大, 技术引进也取得了巨大的成效.

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