diversify

verb

/daɪˈvɜːsɪfaɪ/

/daɪˈvɜːrsɪfaɪ/

动词形式

present simple I / you / we / they diversify	/daɪˈvɜːsɪfaɪ/ /daɪˈvɜːrsɪfaɪ/
he / she / it diversifies	/daɪˈvɜːsɪfaɪz/ /daɪˈvɜːrsɪfaɪz/
past simple diversified	/daɪˈvɜːsɪfaɪd/ /daɪˈvɜːrsɪfaɪd/
past participle diversified	/daɪˈvɜːsɪfaɪd/ /daɪˈvɜːrsɪfaɪd/
-ing form diversifying	/daɪˈvɜːsɪfaɪɪŋ/ /daɪˈvɜːrsɪfaɪɪŋ/

[intransitive, transitive] diversify (something) (into something) (especially of a business or company尤指企业或公司) to develop a wider range of products, interests, skills, etc. in order to be more successful or reduce risk增加…的品种；从事多种经营；扩大业务范围 synonym branch out
- Farmers are being encouraged to diversify into new crops.目前正鼓励农民兼种新的农作物。
- The company has been trying to diversify its business.这家公司一直力求扩大业务范围。
Topics Successc1
[intransitive, transitive] to change or to make something change so that there is greater variety（使）多样化，变化，不同
- Patterns of family life are diversifying.家庭生活模式正在变得多样化。
- diversify something The culture has been diversified with the arrival of immigrants.随着外来移民的到来，这里的文化变得多元化了。

词源late Middle English (in the sense ‘show diversity’): via Old French from medieval Latin diversificare ‘make dissimilar’, from Latin diversus, past participle of divertere, from di- ‘aside’ + vertere ‘to turn’.