No. 624 in Chinese
扩大
"To expand" or "to enlarge."
In a sentence
公司计划明年扩大生产规模。
The company plans to expand production scales next year.
扩大 is used in this sentence to indicate the action of increasing or expanding the production scale of the company.
随着城市的发展，人们需要进一步扩大公共设施的覆盖范围。
As the city develops, people need to further expand the coverage of public facilities.
In this context, 扩大 expresses extending the reach or extent of public infrastructure coverage.
通过这个活动，我们希望扩大对环境保护的重视。
Through this activity, we hope to broaden the awareness of environmental protection.
Here, 扩大 denotes enhancing or spreading awareness about the importance of environmental protection.
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