widening

基本解释

It should avoid widening it.
他应当避免口子的扩大。
Although that ruling did not address the quota issue, it was hoped that a widening of the distribution system would lead to greater market access for U.
即便那个裁定没有讨论配额问题，它被期望是发行制度的一种拓宽将对美国电影业产生更大的市场通道。
Factoring risk into goals tends to be subjective and is best accomplished by increasing the variability of the estimates -- in effect, by widening the "margin for error".
通过增加评估的可变性，将风险分散到各个目标往往比较主观，也能很好地实现——事实上，是通过扩大“误差范围”。

He was revolutionary in widening the subjects considered acceptable for children's books.
Cisse says the opposition welcomes the widening international pressure on President Tandja to resolve the crisis.
News of the widening trade gap, along with several other gloomy economic reports, contributed to a 2.5 - percent drop in the Dow Jones Industrial Average on Wednesday.

If credit was the issue we might expect spreads to be falling, but they are widening.
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If you widen something or if it widens, it becomes greater in measurement from one side or edge to the other.
If you widen something or if it widens, it becomes greater in range or it affects a larger number of people or things.
If a difference or gap widens or if something widens it, it becomes greater.

扩大
A recent social research says that the earning gap between female and male is widening.
社会调查表明：男女两性收入差距呈扩大趋势。
交通运输工程
拓宽
Finally, it advances the structural design of the road widening program.
最后提出拓宽路面结构设计方案。
扩建工程
According to the determined settlement control criterion, the appropriate methods of soft ground improvement for expressway widening are investigated, and the composite foundation method is found that is an optimal one by comparison.
根据高速公路扩建工程的沉降控制标准,研究了适合于高速公路扩建工程的软基处理方法。
扩宽
平行加宽