balloon to [amount/number]
表示数量激增到某个数值
The population ballooned to over 10 million.
人口激增至超过1000万。
膨胀；鼓起；像气球一样鼓起；乘气球；乘坐热气球；把球高高击出；击高球；（飞机）上下颠簸；忽升忽降；用气球载运；用气球把…送上天空
To increase or expand very quickly.
迅速增加或扩展
To increase or expand rapidly.
乘坐或航行于气球中
To go up or voyage in a balloon.
像在气球中一样升起
To take up in, or as if in, a balloon.
乘坐热气球
ride in a hot-air balloon
像气球一样膨胀
To inflate like a balloon.
击球使其高飞
To strike (a ball) so that it flies high in the air.
(指飞机)上下颠簸
Of an aircraft: to plunge alternately up and down.
一般现在时
The cost balloons every year.
成本每年膨胀。
一般过去时
The deficit ballooned last quarter.
赤字在上个季度激增。
现在进行时
The population is ballooning rapidly.
人口正在迅速膨胀。
规则变化动词，表示膨胀或激增。
The company's debt ballooned after the merger.
公司的债务在合并后激增。
用法提示：ballooned 作不及物动词，表示‘激增’。
AI contextual example
The wind ballooned the sails and the boat moved faster.
风吹鼓了船帆，船行得更快了。
用法提示：ballooned 作及物动词，表示‘使膨胀如气球’。
AI contextual example
The patient's abdomen was ballooning due to the infection.
由于感染，病人的腹部肿胀起来。
用法提示：ballooning 作不及物动词的现在分词，表示‘膨胀如气球’。
AI contextual example
表示数量激增到某个数值
The population ballooned to over 10 million.
人口激增至超过1000万。
表示膨胀鼓起来
The sails ballooned out in the strong wind.
在强风中船帆鼓了起来。
使某物膨胀如气球
The wind ballooned the tent.
风把帐篷吹得鼓起来。
grammar · medium
易错句子The company ballooned its profits.
正确表达The company's profits ballooned.
动词balloon通常用作不及物动词，主语是膨胀的事物本身；中文“使膨胀”的及物用法在此不适用，应改为以profits为主语。
grammar · medium
易错句子The number of students ballooned up.
正确表达The number of students ballooned.
balloon已隐含增加的含义，添加up属于冗余，应删去。
inflate 指通过充气使物体膨胀，而 balloon 强调膨胀成气球状或数量激增，不一定是充气。
soar 强调快速、大幅度地上升（如价格、数量），而 balloon 强调逐渐扩大式膨胀，有时含有失控之意。
乘坐热气球（活动）
We went ballooning over the countryside yesterday.
我们昨天乘坐热气球飞越了乡村。
乘坐热气球飞越
They ballooned over the Grand Canyon at dawn.
他们在黎明时分乘坐热气球飞越了大峡谷。
乘坐热气球横跨
She plans to balloon across the English Channel next year.
她计划明年乘坐热气球横跨英吉利海峡。
开始学习乘坐热气球
He took up ballooning as a hobby after retirement.
他退休后开始将乘坐热气球作为爱好。
ball (球) + -oon (大后缀)
root (also in basketball, football, etc.)
suffix (also in cartoon, typhoon, etc.)
balloon作为动词指乘坐热气球，热气球是相关的交通工具。
乘坐热气球时站立或乘坐的篮子。
热气球通过燃烧器加热空气来升空。
乘坐热气球是一种飞行体验。
热气球在空中飞行，与天空直接相关。
发长 /uː/ 音 (如 food, boot)
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