| 词组 | augment |
| 释义 | augment Augment, often in the form of its past participle augmented, is used frequently with the preposition by and less frequently with with. • ... he augmented his scholarship from the American Legion by working six nights a week as saxophonist with a jazz band —Current Biography, February 1967 • ... or was he to throw up his job, retire on pension, and augment this income by selling other books? — James Leasor, Irish Digest, January 1953 • ... in subfreezing temperatures augmented by a 35-mph wind —David Brudnoy, National Rev., 29 Dec. 1970 • ... villages ... augment their water-control farming by cultivating the nearby hillsides —Kent V. Flan-nery et al., Science, 27 Oct. 1967 • ... has twice augmented a couponing blitz by pledging to give a nickel to the Special Olympics for retarded children each time a coupon was redeemed — Wall Street Jour., 25 Mar. 1982 • Augmented at times of downpour by spillover from the great central lake, the water penetrated gradually into the peat beds —Fred Ward, National Geographic, January 1972 • ... skillfully augment the melodramatics of modern crime detection with these terrors inherent in our metropolises —Arthur Knight, Saturday Rev., 6 Nov. 1971 • ... the pianist got hold of a vintage upright whose hammers had been augmented with thumbtacks in an effort to simulate the harpsichord —Wilder Hob-son, Saturday Rev., 28 Nov. 1953 • To the north and east the forms descend from Anglian, as these have been altered, corrupted, and augmented with influence from Old Norse —Charlton Laird, The Miracle of Language, 1953 |
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