inflation
英[?n'fle??(?)n]
美[?n'fle??n]
- n. 膨脹；通貨膨脹；夸張；自命不凡
英英釋意
- 1. a general and progressive increase in prices;
- "in inflation everything gets more valuable except money"
- 2. (cosmology) a brief exponential expansion of the universe (faster than the speed of light) postulated to have occurred shortly after the big bang
- 3. lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity
- 4. the act of filling something with air