每日10分鐘單詞（每日單詞inflation）

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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.

如果從票房情況來看，那史上最受歡迎的電影是《亂世佳人》。（《亂世佳人》片段：「坦白說，親愛的，我一點兒也不在乎。」）順便說一下，這一結果扣除了通貨膨脹因素。但電影票房還會受到廣告預算、發行和評論的影響，因此票房也許不是衡量電影文化影響力的最佳標準。

——《經濟學人》 基本釋義

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

n. 通貨膨脹

追根溯源

單詞inflation裡的詞根flat，來源於拉丁語flare, 表示「吹」，所以，包含flat的英語單詞，多與此相關，例如：

inflate vi. 膨脹；充氣

deflate vt. 放氣；緊縮通貨

flatter vt. 吹捧，奉承；諂媚

inflationary adj. 通貨膨脹的；膨脹的

影視例句

在美劇《生活大爆炸》中，Sheldon在說自己的科研方向時，就用到了inflationary這個單詞，這也是inflation的形容詞形式：

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.

-我剛被叫進塞伯特校長的辦公室，學校不準我把研究方向改為宇宙暴脹論，他們逼我繼續研究弦理論。

-為什麼？

-他說大學僱我是讓我研究弦理論，我的研究經費也僅限於研究弦理論，而且每個人都有人在江湖身不由己的時候。他還舉了一個他身不由己的例子，就是雖然他十分不想，卻還是不得不見我這傻逼。