Augmentation

(noun.) the act of augmenting.

(noun.) the statement of a theme in notes of greater duration (usually twice the length of the original).

(noun.) the amount by which something increases.

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• An augmentation of fortune is the means by which the greater part of men propose and wish to better their condition. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• When the lease comes to be renewed, however, the landlord commonly demands the same augmentation of rent as if they had been all made by his own. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Volumnia's pet little scream acquires a considerable augmentation of reality from this surprise, and the house is quickly in commotion. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• An augmentation, or a direct raising of the denomination of the coin, always is, and from its nature must be, an open and avowed operation. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• It was a great augmentation of my uneasiness to be bereaved, at this eventful crisis, of the inestimable services of Miss Mills. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Both operations are unjuSt. But a simple augmentation is an injustice of open violence; whereas an adulteration is an injustice of treacherous fraud. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• She compromised on an augmentation of her territory, twenty million dollars' indemnity in money, and peace. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Mr. Weston was chatty and convivial, and no friend to early separations of any sort; but at last the drawing-room party did receive an augmentation. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• She, who so gloried in my fame, and so looked forward to its augmentation, well knew that I would labour on. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• This tax was afterwards repealed, and in the room of it was established the window-tax, which has undergone two several alterations and augmentations. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.

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