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double

英 ['dʌb(ə)l] 美['dʌbl]

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n. 两倍；双精度型
adj. 双重的；两倍的
vi. 加倍，加倍努力；快步走
vt. 使加倍
adv. 双重地；两倍地；弓身地
n. (Double)人名；(法)杜布勒；(英)道布尔

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As a result, wheat prices elsewhere more than doubled, pulling rice and corn prices up with them.

With the percentage of people over age 65 expected to nearly double by 2050, it's important to weigh the health benefits of screening against the risks and costs of routine testing.

Underling all this growth will be the demand for energy, which is expected to double over the next 40 years.

It projected that the number would double by 2030.

Instead, topping the list of reasons, about four-in-ten Americans point to a double standard for women seeking to climb to the highest levels of either politics or business, where they have to do more than their male counterparts to prove themselves.

Let's make sure to set a double date during the event.

The aircraft is massive as long as a football field and as tall as 6 double decker buses and capable of flying for up to 5 days.

One relative bright spot for Macy's during the holiday season was the online channel, where it rang up double-digit increases in sales and a 25% increase in the number of orders it filled.

But by 2014, the death rate from Alzheimer’s Disease for this age group have more than doubled, increasing from 3.8% to 8.5%, making the progressive brain disease the second leading cause of death for centenarians.

Water Usage: Over the past century, human use of fresh water has increased at more than double the rate of population growth.

By last year, Wall Street traders, bankers and those who deal in real estate generated 21% of the national income, double their share in the 1950s.

Globally, urban populations are expected to double in the next 40 years, and an extra 2 billion people will need new places to live, as well as services and ways to move around their cities.

In the US, studies have shown that doubling the size of a road can simply double the traffic, taking us back to the starting point.

Take plenty of breaks, because they offer a double bonus: the time off gives your mind a chance to do some preliminary consolidation and it also gives a memory boost to the learning.

According to the analysis of Babbitt's team, old desktop monitors and box TVs with cathode ray tubes are the worst devices with their energy consumption and contribution to greenhouse gas emissions more than doubling during the 1992 to 2007 window.

And doubling a buffet's price led customers to say that its pizza was 11 percent tastier.

From 2004 to 2013, agricultural land values doubled, and they continue to rise in many regions.

I'd like to book a room with a double bed.

Ok, single room or double room?

We have only two double rooms available.

When you have found shoes that seem right, walk in them for a few days to double-check the fit.

Losing a job is hurting: you don’t skip down to the jobcentre with a song in your heart, delighted at the prospect of doubling your income from the generous state.

Rather officials must avoid double standards, or different types of access for average people and the wealthy.

At its peak in 2007, it was worth some $65 billion, reckons Clare McAndrew, founder of Arts Economics, a research firm—double the figure five years earlier.

In 2015, the US Forest Service for the first time spent more than half of its $5.5 billion annual budget fighting fires——nearly double the percentage it spent on such efforts 20 years ago.

One Gallup poll found that 20 percent of Americans who have been unemployed for at least a year report having depression, double the rate for working Americans.

The state's proposed Forest Carbon Plan aims to double efforts to thin out young trees and clear brush in parts of the forest.