Progressive
[prə'gresɪv] or [prə'ɡrɛsɪv]
解释:
(noun.) a tense of verbs used in describing action that is on-going.
(adj.) advancing in severity; 'progressive paralysis' .
(adj.) favoring or promoting reform (often by government action) .
(adj.) (of a card game or a dance) involving a series of sections for which the participants successively change place or relative position; 'progressive euchre'; 'progressive tournaments' .
(adj.) favoring or promoting progress; 'progressive schools' .
(adj.) (of taxes) adjusted so that the rate increases as the amount of income increases .
(adj.) gradually advancing in extent .
整理:鲁道夫--From WordNet
解释:
(a.) Moving forward; proceeding onward; advancing; evincing progress; increasing; as, progressive motion or course; -- opposed to retrograde.
(a.) Improving; as, art is in a progressive state.
整理:莫顿
同义词及近义词：
a. [1]. Advancing, proceeding.[2]. Improving.
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例句:
- We live on long after our death, and progressively, in progressive devolution. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- This is a determinant which burrows beneath our ordinary classification of progressive and reactionary to the spiritual habits of a period. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- Yet no one would seriously maintain that the West is more progressive because it has progressive laws. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- Little by little, however, progressive business men saw the advantages to be gained by motor delivery and the motor truck began to gain favor. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- When Roosevelt formed the Progressive Party on a platform of social reform he crystallized a deep unrest, brought it out of the cellars of resentment into the agora of political discussion. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- These parts are assembled on progressive traveling tracks. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- This paper, while still in a damp condition, was passed between the drum and stylus in continuous, progressive motion. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- To sit with her in sight was happiness, and the proper happiness, for early morning--serene, incomplete, but progressive. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- This conclusion is bound up with the very idea of education as a freeing of individual capacity in a progressive growth directed to social aims. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- He consequently believes in an innate tendency towards progressive and more perfect development. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- But not in progressive communities. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- A progressive society counts individual variations as precious since it finds in them the means of its own growth. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- Water-spouts have, also, a progressive motion; this is sometimes greater and sometimes less; in some violent, in others barely perceivable. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
- This empire extended eastward to Kashgar, and it must have seemed one of the most progressive and hopeful empires of the time. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- I was not in the least sensible of the progressive motion made in the air by the island. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
- He set out to make the campaign a battle between the Progressives and the Democrats--the old discredited Republicans fell back into a rather dead conservative minority. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- The progressives say the issue is between Privilege and the People; the Socialists, that it is between the working class and the master class. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
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