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Chinese dictionary
- 1
v.put one thing on top of another; add; plus
将数字加起来。
Add up the numbers.
三加二等于五。
Three plus two is five.
火上加油
That was adding fuel to the fire.
- 2
v.put in; append
他给自己加了新的头衔。
He confers a new title on himself.
给这个句子加上标点符号。
Put in the proper punctuation marks for this sentence.
汤里加点盐。
Put some salt in the soup.
- 3
v.raise; augment; increase
再加点钱。
Increase an amount of money.
公司给我们加了些工资。
Our company has increased our wages.
产量再加一些。
Add a little bit more production.
antonym
- 4
v.(used in the same way as 加以 usually after a monosyllabic adverb); impose
大加鼓励
give more encouragement
大加赞扬
praise highly
Words and phrases with 加
- 加气[word]aerate; refill compressed natural gas
- 加盟[word]join; franchise
- 加工厂[word]processing factory
- 加时[word]play overtime
- 加班[word]work overtime
- 加班加点[word]work overtime
- 加盖[word]affix
- 加分[word]do somebody credit
- 加长[word]lengthen
- 加减乘除[idiom]add, subtract, multiply and divide
- 加官进爵[idiom]rise in the official world
- 加枝添叶[idiom]fabricate the details of a story
- 加官晋爵[idiom]promote somebody to a higher office and rank
- 加人一等[idiom]be superior to ordinary people
- 加油添醋[idiom]add highly coloured details to a story