inflation
英[ɪn'fleɪʃ(ə)n]
美[ɪn'fleʃən]
- n. 膨胀；通货膨胀；夸张；自命不凡
英英释意
- 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