ballooned

英 [bəˈluːnd]

美 [bəˈluːnd]

v.  (突然)膨胀，涨大; 乘热气球飞行
balloon的过去分词和过去式

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 气球
  Aballoonis a small, thin, rubber bag that you blow air into so that it becomes larger and rounder or longer. Balloons are used as toys or decorations.
  1. She popped a balloon with her fork.
     她用叉子戳破了一个气球。
• N-COUNT 热气球
  Aballoonis a large, strong bag filled with gas or hot air, which can carry passengers in a container that hangs underneath it.
  1. They are to attempt to be the first to circle the Earth non-stop by balloon.
     他们试图完成乘热气球不间断环球飞行的创举。
• VERB （数量）激增，猛涨，快速膨胀
  When somethingballoons, it increases rapidly in amount.
  1. In London, the use of the Tube has ballooned...
     在伦敦，坐地铁的人激增。
  2. The budget deficit has ballooned to $25 billion...
     预算赤字已经猛增到250亿美元。

双语例句

• New Delhi's failure to reduce the country's dependence on costly oil imports has ballooned the current-account deficit.
  由于新德里未能降低印度对价格高昂的进口石油的依赖，印度的经常项目赤字大幅增加。
• As it affected her more and more, the font size in her emails ballooned to cartoonish sizes.
  因为它影响到她的越来越多，她的电子邮件中的字体大小膨胀到卡通的大小。
• The things we wanted to keep an eye on have ballooned out of control.
  我们所要关注的事情已经膨胀失控。
• Total debts owed by the government, companies and households have ballooned to 240 per cent of gross domestic product, virtually double the level at the time of the global financial crisis.
  政府、公司和家庭的负债总额与国内生产总值（GDP）之比大幅增加至240%，相当于金融危机时的两倍。
• Even as government stockpiles ballooned, traders in Thailand imported rice from Cambodia and Vietnam.
  就在政府大米储量飙升之际，泰国的商人从柬埔寨和越南进口大米。
• Some say the flood of state-directed capital has led to inefficiencies in the same way that its steel and cement sectors ballooned under state support several decades ago.
  有些人说，大量政府主导的资金介入，已开始导致该行业效率低下，与数十年前钢铁和水泥业在政府的支持下急剧膨胀一样。
• The rumours soon ballooned into a full-grown scandal.
  流言很快膨胀为丑闻。
• In Germany, the crisis has ballooned into the worst recession in postwar history.
  在德国，危机已升级为战后最严重的经济衰退。
• Nonbank or shadow lending has ballooned in recent years as regulators have repeatedly tried to cut off certain sectors of the economy from formal financing channels.
  近年来，由于监管部门切断了某些经济领域的正规融资途径，非银行信贷或影子银行得到了迅速扩张的机会。
• When I was a sophomore in high school I ballooned to180 pounds.
  当我是大学二年级间的时候，我就胀到了180磅。