Gradual
['grædʒʊəl] or ['ɡrædʒuəl]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) (Roman Catholic Church) an antiphon (usually from the Book of Psalms) immediately after the epistle at Mass.
(adj.) proceeding in small stages; 'a gradual increase in prices' .
(adj.) (of a topographical gradient) not steep or abrupt; 'a gradual slope' .
黛西手打--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) Proceeding by steps or degrees; advancing, step by step, as in ascent or descent or from one state to another; regularly progressive; slow; as, a gradual increase of knowledge; a gradual decline.
(n.) An antiphon or responsory after the epistle, in the Mass, which was sung on the steps, or while the deacon ascended the steps.
(n.) A service book containing the musical portions of the Mass.
(n.) A series of steps.
唐尼手打
同義詞及近義詞：
a. Regular (step by step), progressive, slow.
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同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Slow, continuous, unintermittent, gradational, regular, step_by_step,progressive
ANT:Sudden, momentary, instantaneous, periodic, recurrent, intermittent, discontinuous,broken, disconnected
整理:露丝
例句/造句/用法:
- He pretended to no gradual change of views; he wheeled about at once. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- As the lid is closed, the picture becomes darkened, and by the gradual removal of the screen at the same time, it is changed into a transparency. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- What is termed development is the gradual making explicit and outward of what is thus wrapped up. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- The scene before the reddleman's eyes was a gradual series of ascents from the level of the road backward into the heart of the heath. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- But seals would not find on oceanic islands the conditions favourable to their gradual reconversion into a terrestrial form. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- This state of the eyes is probably due to gradual reduction from disuse, but aided perhaps by natural selection. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- Have you observed any gradual alteration in Papa? 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- Some weeks before their death, they feel a gradual decay; but without pain. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- By gradual steps, initiated in Starley’s Rover in 1880, (see Fig. 183), the high front wheel was reduced in size, until the proportions of the modern Safety (Fig. 184) have been obtained. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- The figures following each other show consecutively a gradual progression, or change in position. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- The author apparently believes that organisation progresses by sudden leaps, but that the effects produced by the conditions of life are gradual. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- There's no occasion to trouble ourselves to move,' said Noah, getting his legs by gradual degrees abroad again. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- A long, gradual ascent is better than a shorter, steeper one. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- The change has evidently been too sudden to be ascribed to any change in the value of silver, which is always slow and gradual. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- In this case a gradual change of structure is supposed to lead to changed instinctive habits. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
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