fourfold

英 [ˈfɔːfəʊld]

美 [ˈfɔːrfoʊld]

adj.  四倍的；四重的
adv.  四倍地；四重地

BNC.21904 / COCA.23621

英英释义

adj

• four times as great or many
  1. a fourfold increase in the dosage
  Synonym:quadruplefour-fold
• having four units or components
  1. quadruple rhythm has four beats per measure
  2. quadruplex wire
  Synonym:quadruplequadruplicatequadruplexfour-fold

adv

• by a factor of four
  1. the price of gasoline has increased fourfold over the past two years
  Synonym:four times

双语例句

• Since 2000, annual growth rates averaging 10 per cent have raised the GDP fourfold.
  2000年以来，年均10%的增长率使得GDP增加了三倍。
• And Zacchaeus stood, and said unto the Lord; Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor; and if I have taken any thing from any man by false accusation, I restore him fourfold.
  撒该站着，对主说，主阿，我把所有的一半给穷人。我若讹诈了谁，就还他四倍。
• Even if we halved water use and doubled production, food deficiency would still increase fourfold.
  即便我们让用水量减半、让产量加倍，食品短缺将仍然会增加到原来的4倍。
• World prices for many of these minerals have doubled in2011, on top of a fourfold increase last year.
  许多这些稀土矿产品的世界价格继去年翻两番之后，在2011年已翻了一倍。
• Higher demand for solar energy, triggered by concerns about global warming, will drive a fourfold increase in the annual revenues of the global solar equipment industry from$ 20bn last year to$ 90bn in 2010, according to projections published today.
  今日即将发布的预测显示，人们对全球变暖的担忧，导致太阳能需求上升，这将推动全球太阳能设备行业的年收入增长3倍，从去年的200亿美元，到2010年时增至900亿美元。
• If the threat of rabies arose every five years, targeting all the wolves in the corridors would cut the risk of extinction over a20-year period by fourfold.
  如果对居住于峡谷内的所有狼群每五年开展一次狂犬病治疗，在20年内，埃塞俄比亚狼种灭亡的可能性将降低四倍。
• Yet with food prices doubling since 2000, and oil and metals rising three or fourfold, no one is immune.
  不过，面对2000年以来翻了一番食品价格、以及上涨了三四倍的石油和金属价格，没有人能够置身事外。
• Experiment of fourfold frequency divider proved the feasibility and validity of the method.
  四倍分频器电路演化实验结果验证了该方法的可行性与有效性。
• The study in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences is based on six different surveys on self-reported satisfaction with life since 1990, a period when China's gross domestic product per capita increased fourfold.
  该研究发表在《国家科学院院刊》上，基于自1990年以来6份不同的自我报告的生活满意度调查。1990年以来，中国人均国内生产总值增加了4倍。
• 1 in this chapter we offer arguments for the aforesaid fourfold division of order and for the interrelations that exist between essentially ordered terms.
  这一章中，我们将为秩序的上述四分法和被本质性规定的术语间的相互关系提供证明。