英语释义
1. to become wide swell
the pupil of the eye dilates and contracts
2. to comment at length discourse —usually used with on or upon
dilating upon themes of love and death
3. to enlarge or expand in bulk or extent distend, widen
dilate our cultural knowledge … long after Italian women used drops of belladonna to artificially dilate their pupils.
— Michael H. Robinson
4. to describe or set forth at length or in detail
dilate at full what hath befallen of them
— Shakespeare
5. to become larger or wider
6. to make or grow larger or wider
Her pupils dilated in the dark.
7. to enlarge, stretch, or cause to expand
dilate his pupils with atropine the drug dilates peripheral arteries
8. to become expanded or swollen
the cervix was dilating the pupils dilated