总结有关“增加”的英文表达

前几天读新闻时，看到这样一个句子：

Britain’s royal family is beefing up its social media operation amid a rise in racist online abuse targeting the Duchess of Sussex in the months after the announcement of her pregnancy, sources have told CNN.

参考译文：有消息人士告诉CNN，在苏塞克斯公爵夫人宣布怀孕后的几个月里，针对她的种族主义网络谩骂不断增加，英国王室正在加强其社交媒体运营。

从这句话我们可以学到一个表达“增加、加强”的表达，即beef up，在这里相当于我们熟悉的increase。

beef up：If you beef up something, you increase, strengthen, or improve it. 加强，增加再看一个选自经济学人的例句，这篇文章题为“The algorithm kingdom：China’s deep pool of data means it has a chance to lead in artificial intelligence”（算法王国：中国数据资源丰富，有机会在人工智能领域占据领先地位）。

Alibaba is already a behemoth in e-commerce and is investing billions to become number one in cloud computing. At a conference in June in Shanghai it showed off an AI service called “ET City Brain” that uses video recognition to optimise traffic in real time. It uses footage from roadside cameras to predict the behaviour of cars and can adjust traffic lights on the spot. In its home town of Hangzhou, Alibaba claims, the system has already increased the average speed of traffic by 11%. Alibaba is also planning tobeef up what it calls “ET Medical Brain”, which will offer AI-powered services to discover drugs and diagnose medical images. It has signed up a dozen hospitals to get the data it needs.

官译：已是电商巨头的阿里巴巴正豪掷数十亿元，力争在云计算领域取得领先。6月于上海举行的一次会议上，阿里巴巴展示了一项名为“ET城市大脑”的人工智能服务，可利用视频识别来实时优化交通。该服务运用路边摄像头拍摄的视频片段来预测车辆的行为，即刻调整交通信号灯。阿里巴巴声称，在其总部所在地杭州，该系统使交通的平均速度提高了11%。该公司还计划加强其“ET医疗大脑”系统，提供各种人工智能服务来帮助研发新药和诊断医学影像。为获取所需数据，公司已与十几家医院签约。

关于“增加”的相关表达有很多，读英语新闻时很容易看见increase， rise，grow up等词，当表示“激增、猛增、大幅增加”时，还有像surge，soar，mount，climb，proliferate等表达方式。

比如：

As such deals proliferated, economists studied their impact. One fear had been that they might divert custom from more efficient producers in third countries. 随着这类协定的激增，经济学家开始研究其影响。一种担心是它们可能会使协定国减少从生产效率更高的第三国生产者那里进口产品。

On November 29th its quarterly results included a surge in revenues of 15%. 11 月 29 日，它的季报显示收入激增15%。

But because the global population is growing and more people are living well into old age, researchers predict the number of people with sight problems will soar in the coming decades.但是由于全球人口正在增长，而且越来越多的人寿命较长，研究人员预测，在未来的几十年里，有视力问题的人数将会激增。

那还有没有其他表达呢？

近期的《纽约时报》有一篇文章题为“As costs skyrocket, more U.S. cities stop recycling”，其中skyrocket就可以表示激增、飙升、猛涨。

再找一个外刊中的例句：

It has been a difficult year for bitcoin investors, who in 2017 saw prices skyrocket by more than 2,000%.这一年对比特币投资者来说很艰难，他们在2017年看到了它的价格飙升超过2000％。

以上。