aggrandizement

noun

/əˈɡrændɪzmənt/

(British English also aggrandisement)

[uncountable] (formal, disapproving)

an increase in the power or importance of a person or country（个人、国家权力或重要性的）扩大，增加，提高
- Her sole aim is personal aggrandizement.她唯一的目的就是扩大个人权势。
- He was a strong and greedy monarch who pursued a course of military aggrandizement from the beginning of his reign.他是一个强大而贪婪的君主，从统治开始就追求军事扩张。
see also self-aggrandizing
词源mid 17th cent. (in the general sense ‘increase, magnify’): from French agrandiss-, lengthened stem of agrandir, probably from Italian aggrandire, from Latin grandis ‘large’. The ending was changed by association with verbs ending in -ize + -ment.

词汇	aggrandizement
释义	aggrandizement noun /əˈɡrændɪzmənt/ /əˈɡrændɪzmənt/ (British English also aggrandisement) [uncountable] (formal, disapproving) an increase in the power or importance of a person or country（个人、国家权力或重要性的）扩大，增加，提高 Her sole aim is personal aggrandizement.她唯一的目的就是扩大个人权势。 He was a strong and greedy monarch who pursued a course of military aggrandizement from the beginning of his reign.他是一个强大而贪婪的君主，从统治开始就追求军事扩张。 see also self-aggrandizing 词源mid 17th cent. (in the general sense ‘increase, magnify’): from French agrandiss-, lengthened stem of agrandir, probably from Italian aggrandire, from Latin grandis ‘large’. The ending was changed by association with verbs ending in -ize + -ment.
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