multiply
英 [ˈmʌltɪplaɪ]
美 [ˈmʌltɪplaɪ]
v. 乘; 乘以; 成倍增加; 迅速增加; (使)繁殖，增殖
过去分词：multiplied 现在分词：multiplying 过去式：multiplied 第三人称单数：multiplies
高考CET4CET6考研TOEFLIELTSGRETEM4TEM8计算机
Oxford 3000 / Collins.2 / BNC.5028 / COCA.6148
同义词辨析
breedmultiplyprocreate【导航词义：繁殖】
breedv. 繁殖
〔辨析〕
只限于指动物交配繁殖；也可指饲养、培育动植物。
〔例证〕
Some animals breed very fast.
一些动物繁殖速度非常快。
Many families in the town become rich after they began to breed cattle and pigs.
饲养牛和猪以后，镇上的很多家庭都致富了。
一些动物繁殖速度非常快。
Many families in the town become rich after they began to breed cattle and pigs.
饲养牛和猪以后，镇上的很多家庭都致富了。
multiplyv. （使）繁殖
〔辨析〕
通常指动植物或微生物繁殖。
〔例证〕
Long-time exposure to the damp environment multiplies the bacteria in food rapidly.
长时间放置在潮湿的环境中使食物中的细菌迅速繁殖。
Rabbits multiply very fast.
兔子繁殖非常迅速。
长时间放置在潮湿的环境中使食物中的细菌迅速繁殖。
Rabbits multiply very fast.
兔子繁殖非常迅速。
procreatev. 〈正式〉生育，生殖
〔辨析〕
指人或动物繁育后代。
〔例证〕
They care about nothing except procreating.
他们关心的只是传宗接代。
Experts are doing research on animals' power to procreate their species.
专家正在研究动物繁衍后代的能力。
他们关心的只是传宗接代。
Experts are doing research on animals' power to procreate their species.
专家正在研究动物繁衍后代的能力。
牛津词典
verb
- 乘；乘以
to add a number to itself a particular number of times- The children are already learning to multiply and divide.
孩子们已经开始学习乘法和除法了。 - 2 multiplied by 4 is/equals/makes 8 (2×4 = 8) .
2乘以4等于8。 - Multiply 2 and 6 together and you get 12.
2和6相乘得12。
- The children are already learning to multiply and divide.
- 成倍增加；迅速增加
to increase or make sth increase very much in number or amount- Our problems have multiplied since last year.
自去年以来，我们的问题成倍增加。 - Cigarette smoking multiplies the risk of cancer.
抽烟会大大增加得癌症的风险。
- Our problems have multiplied since last year.
- （使）繁殖，增殖
to reproduce in large numbers; to make sth do this- Rabbits multiply rapidly.
兔子繁殖迅速。 - It is possible to multiply these bacteria in the laboratory.
在实验室里繁殖这些细菌是可能的。
- Rabbits multiply rapidly.
柯林斯词典
- V-ERG (使)成倍地增加;(使)大量地增加
When somethingmultipliesor when youmultiplyit, it increases greatly in number or amount.- Such disputes multiplied in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries...
这类纠纷在18和19世纪大量增多。 - Her husband multiplied his demands on her time.
她丈夫需要她的时间大大增加。
- Such disputes multiplied in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries...
- VERB 繁殖;滋生
When animals and insectsmultiply, they increase in number by giving birth to large numbers of young.- These creatures can multiply quickly.
这些动物能迅速繁殖。
- These creatures can multiply quickly.
- VERB 乘;使相乘
If youmultiplyone number by another, you add the first number to itself as many times as is indicated by the second number. For example 2 multiplied by 3 is equal to 6.- What do you get if you multiply six by nine?
9乘以6得多少？ - ...the remarkable ability to multiply huge numbers correctly without pen or paper.
不借助纸笔而能正确计算大数字乘积的非凡能力
- What do you get if you multiply six by nine?
英英释义
verb
- have offspring or produce more individuals of a given animal or plant
- The Bible tells people to procreate
- have young (animals) or reproduce (organisms)
- pandas rarely breed in captivity
- These bacteria reproduce
- combine or increase by multiplication
- He managed to multiply his profits
- combine by multiplication
- multiply 10 by 15
adv
- in several ways
- they were multiply checked for errors
双语例句
- This is one of the matrix multiply algorithm, we want to help!
这是一个关于距阵相乘的算法，希望对大家有用！ - OK, now we know how to multiply matrices.
好，现在我们知道怎么把两个矩阵相乘了。 - Mountains multiply, streams double back I doubt there's even a road;| willows cluster darkly, blossoms shine another village ahead!
山重水复疑无路，柳暗花明又一村。（陆游《游山西村》） - When these multiply and go on to infect new individuals, drug resistance spreads.
当这些寄生虫繁殖并感染新的个体的时候，耐药性就扩散了。 - I don't know how to take two strings and multiply them together.
我不知道，怎么把两个字符串乘到一起。 - Once we multiply it by a very large number n, it becomes very much greater than kT.
一旦我用一个很大的n与它相乘，它就会变得比kT大得多。 - These permutations multiply towards infinity
这些排列可以增加到无穷大。 - You multiply them, all three,+ and that's a plus sign.
把这三个都相乘，符号为。 - And, when we multiply R by j, we get this guy here.
当R和j乘的时候，就得到这个东西。 - They multiply and mature in the mosquito, eventually passing back to a human during a later bite.
它们在蚊子体内繁殖和成熟，最终通过蚊子后来的叮咬回到了人类体内。