大学英语词汇短语释义解析及例句 upping the ante


释义：

upping the ante 提高期; 进步期

例句：



A British firm is upping the ante in a long-held dream to build an airplane that also can fly in space.

一家英国的公司加大投入于多年的梦想，那就是建造一架能够飞往太空的飞机。



Upping the ante, they would be paid according to their level of temptation: Could they hold a cigarette while watching?

更进一步，根据诱惑的程度，他们可以得到奖励：看电影时，手上能拿烟，却不吸烟吗？



Federal Reserve that was targeting a 2% per year inflation rate would be aggressively upping the ante on its stimulative policies right now.

联储以2%为预期将会极大地提高现阶段刺激性政策的风险。



A significant issue with "intelligent" animated agents is that by employing animated anthropomorphism, the software is upping the ante on user expectations of the agent's intelligence.

智能动画代理一个显著的问题在于拟人化，软件将赌注押在用户对代理智能的期望上。