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fourfold

/fawr-fohld, fohr-/US // ˈfɔrˌfoʊld, ˈfoʊr- //UK // (ˈfɔːˌfəʊld) //

四倍,四倍于此,四方面,四倍的

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : comprising four parts or members.
    • : four times as great or as much.
adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1
    • : in fourfold measure.

Examples

  • The number of new cases reported daily has increased fourfold over the last month, prompting the New York Times to comment that “the national outlook is worsening quickly.”

  • Years after California voted to lower property taxes, funding had plummeted for all public schools, and tuition for state colleges and universities had risen fourfold.

  • The cotton crop produced by the enslaved in Mississippi multiplied more than fourfold over the course of just eight years.

  • Since 2017, when Duo Tongguang was incorporated, TIZA’s revenue has increased almost fourfold, to more than half a billion dollars in 2019.

  • They are now up about 245% in 2020 after previously climbing more than fourfold.

  • Her basic argument, though it takes some work to decipher, is fourfold.

  • Revenues rose fourfold from $28.2 million in 2010 to $106.3 million in 2011, then rose three-fold to $316.9 million in 2012.

  • The stock has risen more than fourfold since its low of July 2011 and has nearly tripled so far in 2012.

  • This little unexpected communication increased that dread fourfold.

  • There are two serious difficulties with this fourfold classification (isolating, prefixing, suffixing, symbolic).

  • The greatest relative growth was in 1918, when the membership grew fourfold.

  • Even the grave and mighty Vishnoo delights in the lotus, which is one of the four emblems he holds in his fourfold arms.

  • Gibraltar in mid-ocean might have fourfold its present power, yet would be valueless in a military sense.