Increase

(noun.) the act of increasing something; 'he gave me an increase in salary'.

(noun.) the amount by which something increases; 'they proposed an increase of 15 percent in the fare'.

(noun.) a change resulting in an increase; 'the increase is scheduled for next month'.

(noun.) a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important; 'the increase in unemployment'; 'the growth of population'.

(verb.) make bigger or more; 'The boss finally increased her salary'; 'The university increased the number of students it admitted'.

(verb.) become bigger or greater in amount; 'The amount of work increased'.

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• A struggle for existence inevitably follows from the high rate at which all organic beings tend to increase. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• You will drive him to desperation, she said, and increase our dangers tenfold. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• This increase of evaporative power increased the speed the engine could attain. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• It cannot promote health nor ease pain; it makes no increase of merit in the person; it creates envy; it hastens misfortune. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• The largest per capita increase since 1870 has been in malt liquors, and the next in coffee. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• From this beginning cutters gradually added additional facets to increase the brilliancy until there were thirty-four in all. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• If any thing could increase her delight, it was perceiving that the baby would soon have outgrown its first set of caps. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• So there it was, in the haze yonder; and it increased and multiplied. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• Move the lens so that its distance from the candle is increased, and then find the image on a piece of paper. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Her surprise increased with her indifference: he almost fancied that she suspected him of being tainted with foreignness. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• This increase of evaporative power increased the speed the engine could attain. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• In six years his royalties increased from $300 a year to over $200,000 a year. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• As we advanced the light increased until presently we emerged into well-lighted passageways. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• This idea increased my melancholy, for I hate, and always did hate, anything like London in miniature. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• This foresight increases still further his natural disposition to save. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• It increases as fast as the means of the consumers increase for procuring it. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• With the growth of civilization, the gap between the original capacities of the immature and the standards and customs of the elders increases. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• We learned in Section 287 that the strength of a current increases when the electromotive force increases, and diminishes when the electromotive force diminishes. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• The quantity of money, on the contrary, must in every country naturally increase as the value of the annual produce increases. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Their consumption must increase as their mass increases, or rather in a much greater proportion. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• It shows, besides, that you are mindful of what you owe; it makes you appear a careful as well as an honest man, and that still increases your credit. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• He has many friends, and is at a time of life when friends and engagements are continually increasing. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• But there are, and the demand is steadily increasing. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• It could only be imputed to increasing attachment. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• Brotherhood through sorrow, sorrow for common sufferings and for irreparable mutual injuries, is spreading and increasing throughout the world. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• I have thought it over, and have decided on increasing the dose. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Many of the foreigners were utterly destitute; and their increasing numbers at length forbade a recourse to the usual modes of relief. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Now Dalton's master had taught that the atoms of matter in a gas (elastic fluid) repel one another by a force increasing in proport ion as their distance diminishes. 李贝. 西洋科学史.

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