| 英语单词 | increasingly |
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| 英美音标 | 英 [ɪn'kriːsɪŋli] 美 [ɪn'kriːsɪŋli] |
| 中文释义 | adv.逐渐地;越来越多地 |
| 英语例句 | (1) Increasingly, farm land is yielding to property development. (2) New Zealand is an increasingly multicultural society. (3) He grew increasingly to rely on her. (4) Common preconceptions about life in this district are increasingly being challenged. |
| 中文例句 | (1) 地产的发展逐渐占据了农田。 (2) 新西兰已经逐渐成为多元文化交融的国家。 (3) 他越来越依赖她了。 (4) 原先普遍存在著对那一地区生活的成见越来越站不住脚了。 |
| vocabulary简明 | This adverb applies to anything that is happening more often, in greater numbers, or with greater intensity. An increasingly hot summer keeps getting hotter. |
| vocabulary扩展 | To increase something is to add to it numerically, like increasing the size of your family by having a baby. Anything that happens increasingly is growing in some way. An increasingly depressed person keeps getting sadder. An increasingly sick patient keeps getting worse. An increasingly corrupt government is getting less and less honest. When you see this word, you know something is intensifying. |
| 柯林斯解释 | 1 [ADV 副词]渐增地;越来越多地 You can use increasingly to indicate that a situation or quality is becoming greater in intensity or more common. [ADV adj]
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