snowballing

英 [ˈsnəʊbɔːlɪŋ]

美 [ˈsnoʊbɔːlɪŋ]

v.  滚雪球般迅速增大(或趋于严重、变得重要等)
snowball的现在分词

BNC.49056 / COCA.43517

柯林斯词典

• 雪球
  Asnowballis a ball of snow. Children often throw snowballs at each other.
• VERB (项目、运动等)迅速增长，滚雪球般增长
  If something such as a project or campaignsnowballs, it rapidly increases and grows.
  1. From those early days the business has snowballed...
     这个企业从早期开始就一直在迅速地发展扩大。
  2. The investigation snowballed from there and has since led to several arrests.
     从那里开始，调查范围迅速扩大，有几人已经被逮捕。

双语例句

• We need new safe-fail policies to prevent inevitable institutional failures from snowballing into economic crises.
  我们需要新的“安全失效”政策，以防止不可避免的机构破产迅速发展为经济危机。
• Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, facing a snowballing call girl scandal, said he is no saint.
  意大利总理贝卢斯科尼，面临越演越烈的应召女郎绯闻，声称他不是圣人。
• Li's artistic personality lies in the corresponding characters, the flashback perspective, the structural types of his texts and the snowballing phenomenon in his creating process.
  其艺术个性主要表现在人物设置的对应性、叙事的回忆视角、文本的结构类型、创作过程的滚雪球现象。
• In recent years, the traffic congestion problems have become worse due to the percentage of various motor and non-motor car holders being snowballing. Meanwhile, a lot of here and overseas scholars have to focus on the traffic flow models in the study.
  近年来，由于各种机动车和非机动车辆数目突飞猛进的增加，使得原本较为严重的交通拥堵问题变的雪上加霜，而这些交通问题也迫使着众多国内外学者将注意力集中在交通流理论模型的研究中。
• On the Snowballing Expansion of Horizons and Perspectives in Western Ethics; nonfilling slot type bearing
  西方伦理学研究视野和考察视角的滚动式拓展无滚珠槽的滚动轴承
• This reinforced the investing public's doubts and caused a snowballing effect.
  这又会加剧投资公众的疑惑，进而导致滚雪球式的后果。
• Its snowballing popular appeal was powered by two unassailable charms: it made sense and seemed largely true – but not any longer.
  两种无懈可击的魅力使它的人气如滚雪球般增长：一是它说得通，二是它看上去基本上是对的&但现在不是了。
• The little boys are snowballing.
  那些小男孩在扔雪球。
• The new system of test outline in Ancient Chinese Literature used successful experience in previous tests for reference and incarnated the five-character snowballing testing approach of "recitation-reading-paraphrase-writing-argumentation" in a concentrated way.
  《中国古代文学测试大纲》新体系充分借鉴以前测试的成功经验，集中体现了背读释写论五字雪球滚动的测试方式。
• The situation has been snowballing since last week, when a local Chinese TV report showed employees using rotten or expired products for ground meat.
  上周，中国一家地方电视台报道，上海福喜的员工使用腐烂或过期的产品制作碎肉，之后，情况愈演愈烈。