snowballing

英 [ˈsnəʊbɔːlɪŋ]

美 [ˈsnoʊbɔːlɪŋ]

v.  滚雪球般迅速增大(或趋于严重、变得重要等)
snowball的现在分词

BNC.49056 / COCA.43517

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

• We need new safe-fail policies to prevent inevitable institutional failures from snowballing into economic crises.
  我们需要新的“安全失效”政策，以防止不可避免的机构破产迅速发展为经济危机。
• This reinforced the investing public's doubts and caused a snowballing effect.
  这又会加剧投资公众的疑惑，进而导致滚雪球式的后果。
• On the Snowballing Expansion of Horizons and Perspectives in Western Ethics; nonfilling slot type bearing
  西方伦理学研究视野和考察视角的滚动式拓展无滚珠槽的滚动轴承
• Snowballing interest of usurious loans created debts which could never be repaid by even succeeding generations and debts involving a guarantor resulted in the bankruptcy of both the debtor and the guarantor.
  高利贷利滚利，造成永远还不完的子孙债和以借贷人和担保人全部破产而告终的连保债。
• How old fataler being, they loving-kindness having to you, you cannot pay off forever also seems to be the snowballing usury high interest goods this feeling.
  更要命的是，他们对有多大的恩情，这个情好像是驴打滚的高利货似的，永远也还不清呀。
• Li's artistic personality lies in the corresponding characters, the flashback perspective, the structural types of his texts and the snowballing phenomenon in his creating process.
  其艺术个性主要表现在人物设置的对应性、叙事的回忆视角、文本的结构类型、创作过程的滚雪球现象。
• The trend for more muscular security has created a snowballing effect on the local market, be it London, New York or Hong Kong.
  不管是在伦敦、纽约还是香港，对超强安防的需求与日俱增，并对当地市场产生了滚雪球式的效应。
• And often times, a day that starts out bad just keeps getting worse, snowballing into a really bad day.
  很多时候，如果你起床时就感觉很糟糕的话，这一天会像滚雪球一样，变成真正糟糕的一天。
• In recent years, the traffic congestion problems have become worse due to the percentage of various motor and non-motor car holders being snowballing. Meanwhile, a lot of here and overseas scholars have to focus on the traffic flow models in the study.
  近年来，由于各种机动车和非机动车辆数目突飞猛进的增加，使得原本较为严重的交通拥堵问题变的雪上加霜，而这些交通问题也迫使着众多国内外学者将注意力集中在交通流理论模型的研究中。
• Much of the instruction outlined is designed to have a snowballing and exponential effect.
  概括出的大部分操作指示都是计划着带来滚雪球般和指数函数的影响而设计的。