每日10分钟单词（每日单词inflation）

inflation /ɪnˈfleɪʃn/

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外刊例句

If you go by ticket sales, the most popular film of all time is Gone With the Wind (GONE WITH THE WIND CLIP: "Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn.") That is adjusting for inflation, by the way. But a movie's take at the box office is influenced by ad budgets, distribution, reviews—so box office may not be the best measure of a movie's cultural influence.

如果从票房情况来看，那史上最受欢迎的电影是《乱世佳人》。（《乱世佳人》片段：“坦白说，亲爱的，我一点儿也不在乎。”）顺便说一下，这一结果扣除了通货膨胀因素。但电影票房还会受到广告预算、发行和评论的影响，因此票房也许不是衡量电影文化影响力的最佳标准。

——《经济学人》 基本释义

Inflation is a general increase in the prices of goods and services in a country.

n. 通货膨胀

追根溯源

单词inflation里的词根flat，来源于拉丁语flare, 表示“吹”，所以，包含flat的英语单词，多与此相关，例如：

inflate vi. 膨胀；充气

deflate vt. 放气；紧缩通货

flatter vt. 吹捧，奉承；谄媚

inflationary adj. 通货膨胀的；膨胀的

影视例句

在美剧《生活大爆炸》中，Sheldon在说自己的科研方向时，就用到了inflationary这个单词，这也是inflation的形容词形式：

Sheldon: I just got called into President Siebert's office. The university won't let me switch my field of study to inflationary cosmology. They're forcing me to continue with string theory.

Howard: Why?

Sheldon: He said it's why they hired me, it's-it's what my grant was designated for, and that everybody has to do things they don't want to do. He then gave an example of something he had to do, even though he didn't want to, which was look at my stupid face.

-我刚被叫进塞伯特校长的办公室，学校不准我把研究方向改为宇宙暴胀论，他们逼我继续研究弦理论。

-为什么？

-他说大学雇我是让我研究弦理论，我的研究经费也仅限于研究弦理论，而且每个人都有人在江湖身不由己的时候。他还举了一个他身不由己的例子，就是虽然他十分不想，却还是不得不见我这傻逼。