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Pron ['mæɡnɪfaɪ]
Back 【MAGNIFY】
A lens magnifies the size of the words on the paper.
透镜放大纸上的字。
【重点词汇】
magnify v. 放大
lens: n. 透镜, 镜头
Vocab
magnifyincrease in size, volume or significance

To magnify is to make something bigger, whether in size or in significance.

A magnifying glass makes things look bigger and when anything is magnified, it gets larger in some way. If your hunger is magnified, you've gotten hungrier. Wearing a heavy coat on a hot day will magnify the heat: you're feeling hotter and hotter. Also, non-physical things get magnified. The press could magnify a story by discussing it over and over, making it a bigger story than it was originally. All types of magnifying make things bigger.

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