SUFFIX (與數字連用構成副詞)表示“…倍” -fold combines with numbers to form adverbs which say how much an amount has increased by. For example, if an amount increases fourfold, it is four times greater than it was originally.
(與數字連用構成副詞)表示“…倍” -
By the late eighties their number had grown fourfold.
到 80 年代末的時候,他們的數量已是原來的 4 倍。
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Pretax profit surged almost twelvefold.
稅前利潤幾乎漲到了原來的 12 倍。
-fold also combines with numbers to form adjectives.
(與數字連用構成形容詞)