今天我们要学的词是 proliferate. Proliferate is spelled P-R-O-L-I-F-E-R-A-T-E, proliferate.

Proliferate 的意思是激增，迅速扩散。

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. 拥有口罩生产线的中国工厂现在要求在出货之前全额付款。不过在出现大量骗局的情况下，这往往令许多买家无法接受。

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. 德克萨斯州的一个教育监管机构认为，随着许多大学的非教职员工激增，行政部门人浮于事和工资过高是造成大学学费上涨的主要原因。

好的，我们今天学习的词是 proliferate, proliferate, proliferate.