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augment + noun
The company plans to augment its workforce.
公司计划增加员工。
增加，增长
先理解核心含义，再看它在真实句子里的用法。
增加，增长
enlarge or increase
The company plans to augment its workforce.
公司计划增加员工。
增加；使变大或补充。
To increase; to make larger or supplement.
增长；增加；变大。
To grow; to increase; to become greater.
放慢速度或节拍,例如用于戏剧性或庄严的段落。
To slow the tempo or meter, e.g. for a dramatic or stately passage.
将音程(尤其是三和弦中最大的音程)增加半音。
To increase an interval, especially the largest interval in a triad, by a half step (chromatic semitone).
augment
Base
原形
augments
3rd person
第三人称单数
augmenting
-ing
现在分词
augmented
Past
过去式
augmented
Past participle
过去分词
We augment our income with freelance work.
我们通过自由职业增加收入。
The company augmented its workforce last year.
公司去年增加了员工。
They have augmented the system significantly.
他们已经大幅增强了系统。
规则动词，过去式和过去分词加-ed。
The company plans to augment its workforce by hiring more engineers.
公司计划通过雇佣更多工程师来增加员工人数。
She augmented her income by taking on freelance projects.
她通过接自由职业项目来增加收入。
We need to augment our resources to meet the growing demand.
我们需要增加资源以满足日益增长的需求。
The company plans to augment its workforce.
公司计划增加员工。
用with引出增加的手段或工具。
She augmented her income with freelance work.
她通过自由职业增加收入。
They augmented the sound by adding more speakers.
他们通过增加扬声器来增强声音。
Not this
The team made an augment to the project.
Use this
The team made an augmentation to the project.
augment是动词，不可用作名词；表示‘增加的东西’应使用名词形式augmentation。
Not this
We should augment on the budget.
Use this
We should augment the budget.
augment是及物动词，直接接宾语，无需加介词on。
Focus on the distinctions below. Other candidates are kept compact until a reliable usage note is available.
增加收入
He took on extra work to augment his income.
他承担额外工作以增加收入。
提高能力
The training program aims to augment the staff's capacity.
培训项目旨在提高员工的能力。
加强安保
The company decided to augment security after the break-in.
公司在闯入事件后决定加强安保。
扩充团队
We need to augment our team with more developers.
我们需要用更多开发者扩充团队。
增加销售额
The marketing campaign helped augment sales by 20%.
营销活动帮助增加了20%的销售额。
Use augment naturally, then get feedback on meaning, tone, grammar, and phrasing.
Revisit a common error or keep this word in your review list.
把'augment'拆成'aug'（联想八月August）和'ment'，想象八月丰收，收获增加。
语域：formal 常见场景：学术写作、技术文档 通常多用于正式、学术或技术性的书面表达。
以上单词均以 '-ment' 结尾，且结尾发音均为 /mənt/，与 'augment' 的结尾押韵。没有常见的以 '-ment' 结尾但发音不同的单词需特别警告。
Dictionary facts from ECDICT, WIKTIONARY.