汉英词典
Chinese-English Dictionary
MEANING OF 推波助瀾
推波助瀾 (推波助澜)
to push the wave and add to the billows (idiom); to add momentum / to encourage sth to get bigger / to add fuel to the fire
澜 Big wave / The metaphor encourages and encourages the momentum and development of things (often referring to bad things) and expands their influence
比喻助长声势真君、建德之事,适足推波助澜,纵风止燎尔!
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EXAMPLE SENTENCES

媒体也起到了推波助澜的作用。

The media have also played a part.

不能在反击中使用重武器也起到推波助澜的作用。

So did their inability to use heavy weapons in counter-attacks.

在媒体的推波助澜下,华尔街也喜欢在小事上大做文章。

Wall Street, with the help of the media, also likes create meaning where none exists.

淹没在物质主义中,直接和间接的为其推波助澜,罪恶便开始萌芽。

To be soaked in materialism, to directly and indirectly champion it, has also brought guilt.

义愤填膺的批评者断言这样的服务是有意对婚外情推波助澜以扩展网站的商业利益。

Outraged critics claim such services deliberately promote infidelity to further their commercial ambitions.

这种强烈需求带来一个问题:对加拿大元的升值起了推波助澜的作用,使得东部的厂商生存更加艰难。

This boom brings a problem: it is helping to drive up the Canadian dollar, which risks making life more difficult for manufacturers back east.

一些对犯罪状况的恐慌心理是由保安公司的推波助澜造成的,因为对他们的生意有好处。

Some of the hysteria about crime in South Africa is fuelled by security companies, because it’s good for (their) business.

尽管生物质燃料实际上有碳中立的潜力,但在世界上的某些地区,烹饪用木材的需求却推波助澜了滥砍滥伐。

Although biomass fuel has the potential to be virtually carbon neutral, the demand for cooking wood is driving deforestation in some parts of the world.

还有几方面的因素对2011年的几桩生意起了推波助澜的作用,这其中包括股东在资金层面的压力。

Other factors fuelling deals in 2011 include pressure by shareholders on management to use its capital.

我承认那些为茱莉娅-列维新片宣传推波助澜的人的确是令人钦佩的大人物,难以认定他们是在故意地混淆视听。

And I must admit that the people with whom Mr. Julia-Levy has surrounded himself, are impressive and hard to deny the benefit of the doubt.