Progress
['prəʊgres] or ['prɑɡrɛs]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the act of moving forward (as toward a goal).
(noun.) a movement forward; 'he listened for the progress of the troops'.
(verb.) develop in a positive way; 'He progressed well in school'; 'My plants are coming along'; 'Plans are shaping up'.
錄入:威廉敏娜--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A moving or going forward; a proceeding onward; an advance
(n.) In actual space, as the progress of a ship, carriage, etc.
(n.) In the growth of an animal or plant; increase.
(n.) In business of any kind; as, the progress of a negotiation; the progress of art.
(n.) In knowledge; in proficiency; as, the progress of a child at school.
(n.) Toward ideal completeness or perfection in respect of quality or condition; -- applied to individuals, communities, or the race; as, social, moral, religious, or political progress.
(n.) A journey of state; a circuit; especially, one made by a sovereign through parts of his own dominions.
(v. i.) To make progress; to move forward in space; to continue onward in course; to proceed; to advance; to go on; as, railroads are progressing.
(v. i.) To make improvement; to advance.
(v. t.) To make progress in; to pass through.
手打:温迪
同義詞及近義詞:
n. [1]. Advancement, advance, progression, proficiency.[2]. Growth, increase, improvement.
v. n. Advance, proceed, go on, get on, go ahead, get ahead, get forward, get along, make head, make headway, work one's way, make one's way, make progress.
吉尔手打
同義詞及反義詞:
[See ADVANCE]
SYN:Advancement, advance, movement, proceeding, Way, journey, proficiency, speed,growth
ANT:Delay, stoppage, retreat, stay, retrogression, failure, relapse
杰夫編輯
解釋/意思:
n. a going forward or onward: advance: improvement of any kind: proficiency: course: passage from place to place: procession: a journey of state: a circuit.—v.i. Prōgress′ to go forward: to make progress: to grow better: to proceed: to advance: to improve.—v.t. (Shak.) to move or push forward.—n. Prōgres′sion motion onward: act or state of moving onward: progress: regular and gradual advance: increase or decrease of numbers or magnitudes according to a fixed law: (mus.) a regular succession of chords or the movements of the parts in harmony.—adj. Prōgres′sional.—ns. Prōgres′sionist Prog′ressist one who believes in the progress of society and its future perfection: one who believes in the development of animals and plants from one simple form.—adj. Prōgress′ive progressing or moving forward: advancing gradually: improving.—n. one in favour of reform.—adv. Prōgress′ively.—n. Prōgress′iveness.—Arithmetical progression (see Arithmetic); Geometrical progression a series of numbers or quantities in which each succeeding one is produced by multiplying or dividing the preceding one by a fixed number or quantity as 1 4 16 64 &c. or 18 6 2; Harmonic progression (see Harmonic); Musical progression the regular succession of chords or the movement of the parts of a musical composition in harmony where the key continues unchanged.
黛尔編輯
例句/造句/用法:
- So old an art, and so great and continuous a need for its products necessarily must have resulted in much development and progress. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- That is not the way things come about: we grow into a new point of view: only afterwards, in looking back, do we see the landmarks of our progress. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- It is our natural progress, I have heard. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- So that the progress of future inventions depends on the outcome of the great economic, industrial, and social battles which are now looming on the pathway of the future. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- The battle-field was so densely covered with forest that but little could be seen, by any one person, as to the progress made. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- The moving of passengers and freight seems to be directly related to the progress of civilization, and the factor whose influence has been most felt in this field is the steam locomotive. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- There is no apparent relation between effects so dissimilar; yet the steps of progress can be distinctly traced, from the attraction of a feather to the development of the electric telegraph. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- To that had life progressed 3000 or 4000 years ago from its starting-place in the slime of the tidal beaches. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- So mankind has progressed through savagery, chattel slavery, serfdom, to wage slavery or the capitalism of to-day. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- I now telegraphed to Washington: The fight to-day progressed favorably. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Mrs. Bry, to Mrs. Fisher's despair, had not progressed beyond the point of weighing her social alternatives in public. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- The preparations at Corpus Christi for an advance progressed as rapidly in the absence of some twenty or more lieutenants as if we had been there. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- He worked all that winter, meeting the many practical difficulties that arose as he progressed with his machine, and devising solutions for overcoming each. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- This Art Slow in Growth, but no Art Progressed Faster. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- This accident caused some delay, but the other tubes were in the meantime progressing, and the completed bridge was opened for public traffic on the 21st of October, 1850. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- In another half hour he was progressing rapidly, and, but for an exceptional word now and again, he found it very plain sailing. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- From the 23d of May the work of fortifying and pushing forward our position nearer to the enemy had been steadily progressing. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- That matter of Herbert's was still progressing, and everything with me was as I have brought it down to the close of the last preceding chapter. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- How are the rest of your affairs progressing, apart from the business? 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- My investigation seemed to be progressing. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- The world, it is evident, was not progressing during these two centuries of Roman prosperity. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Yet, clumsily or smoothly, the world, it seems, progresses and will progress. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- 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.
整理:纳特