汉英词典
Chinese-English Dictionary
MEANING OF 变本加厉
变本加厉 (變本加厲)
lit. change to more severe (idiom); to become more intense (esp. of shortcoming) / to aggravate / to intensify
厉 violent / Refers to more developed than before / Now it means that the situation has become more serious than before
厉猛烈。指比原来更加发展。现指情况变得比本来更加严重。
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EXAMPLE SENTENCES

我叫他不要再和他的秘书鬼混,他反而更变本加厉

I told him to stop fooling around with his secretary, but he only did it all the more.

我以为她会停止纠缠我,但似乎只是让她变本加厉了。

I thought she'd stop pestering me, but it only seemed to make her worse.

事实上今天的加州依然在变本加厉的上演着这种兴衰相替的循环。

Indeed, California even today amplifies its boom-bust cycles.

既然Bashir先生在他的原罪上变本加厉,那么更重要的就是将他送上审判台。

Now that Mr Bashir has compounded his original crime, it is all the more important that he should be put in the dock.

可是从短期来看,制裁和孤立让强硬路线者变本加厉,而他们的政策一向让美国不喜。

In the short run, however, sanctions and isolation have strengthened the hardliners whose policies America most dislikes.

但一些长期对牛市行情持怀疑态度的分析师却没有变本加厉地唱衰股市,而是认定股市已接近触底。

Yet rather than double down on their bearish take, some long-time market skeptics decided a bottom was near.