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

• The rumours soon ballooned into a full-grown scandal.
  流言很快膨胀为丑闻。
• 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。
• Russian arms sales were only$ 4.3 billion in2003, and ballooned as the economies of their two biggest customers ( India and China) grew larger.
  俄罗斯武器销售额2003年仅为4.3亿美元，作为它的两个最大客户（印度和中国）的经济较大膨胀增长。
• 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。
• In London, the use of the Tube has ballooned
  在伦敦，坐地铁的人激增。
• That's been an enviable location in recent years, as sales of Chinese goods have ballooned.
  近年来随着中国产品销量急剧增长，阿里巴巴的地位令人羡慕。
• Current account deficits ballooned, with capital inflows accelerating up to the eve of the crisis.
  由于直到危机发生的前夜，资本流入加速，经常账盈余迅速扩大。
• 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。
• 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。