新聞美語即時通 proliferate 激增，迅速擴散

今天我們要學的詞是 proliferate. Proliferate is spelled P-R-O-L-I-F-E-R-A-T-E, proliferate.

proliferate 的意思是激增，迅速擴散。 Chinese factories with production lines making face masks are demanding full payment before shipping them. With scams proliferating, those are often unacceptable terms to many buyers. 擁有口罩生產線的中國工廠現在要求在出貨之前全額付款。不過在出現大量騙局的情況下，這往往令許多買家無法接受。

A Texas education watchdog believes that unnecessary and overpaid administrators have been responsible for much of the rising cost of college tuition, as non-teaching personnel proliferated at many schools. 德克薩斯州的一個教育監管機構認為，隨著許多大學的非教職員工激增，行政部門人浮於事和工資過高是造成大學學費上漲的主要原因。

好的，我們今天學習的詞是 proliferate, proliferate, proliferate ....（新聞美語即時通是由美國之音和中廣新聞網聯合製播，節目內容歡迎到中廣新聞網youtube收看收聽）