snowballed

英 [ˈsnəʊbɔːld]

美 [ˈsnoʊbɔːld]

v.  滚雪球般迅速增大(或趋于严重、变得重要等)
snowball的过去分词和过去式

柯林斯词典

• 雪球
  Asnowballis a ball of snow. Children often throw snowballs at each other.
• VERB (项目、运动等)迅速增长，滚雪球般增长
  If something such as a project or campaignsnowballs, it rapidly increases and grows.
  1. From those early days the business has snowballed...
     这个企业从早期开始就一直在迅速地发展扩大。
  2. The investigation snowballed from there and has since led to several arrests.
     从那里开始，调查范围迅速扩大，有几人已经被逮捕。

双语例句

• As losses have snowballed, further unwinding has been triggered.
  日益扩大的损失引发了进一步的平仓举动。
• The children snowballed each other.
  孩子们互相掷雪球。
• The number of signers of the petition for a new school snowballed.
  要求增设新学校而签名的人像滚雪球似的越来越多。
• The effect of rising prices has snowballed.
  物价上涨的影响不断迅速扩大。
• Barry, who lives with girlfriend Rebecca Gardner, Phoebe, and youngest daughter Chloe, one, said: 'It just snowballed from that first film.
  巴里和女友丽贝卡加德纳，大女儿菲比和小女儿克洛伊住在一起，他说：自第一次拍摄后，视频就如滚雪球般出来。
• The sell-off quickly snowballed and the subsequent currency collapses and recessions exposed the poor financial health of the region's banks.
  抛售潮迅速蔓延。随之而来的货币崩盘和经济衰退，暴露出该地区银行脆弱的财务状况。
• His business has snowballed recently.
  他的买卖近来像滚雪球似的，越做越大。
• You may have your doubts, but momentum has snowballed, and the movement has gathered government funding for its national tournaments.
  你也许心存疑虑，但是这已是大势所趋，而且这次活动已经为它的全国锦标赛获得了政府基金。
• Opposition to the war snowballed.
  反战情绪急速增长。
• Human being's peace-pursuit campaign, beginning in Europe in the 16th century, had ever developed and snowballed into a worldwide one by the early 20th century.
  人类追求和平的运动16世纪肇端于欧陆，历经漫长的蓄积与演进，于20世纪初形成全球规模。