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英语单词 progressive
英美音标 英 [prə'ɡresɪv] 美 [prə'ɡresɪv]
中文释义 adj.先进的;前进的;渐进的;革新的(音乐上的)
n.进步分子;革新主义者
英语例句 (1) She is the most progressive writer of that times.
(2) That famous progressive thinker was asked to deliver a speech at the meeting.
(3) He noted a progressive speech impediment.
(4) This is a progressive course in English study.
(5) Nowadays,progressive rock is sometimes hard to accept by the fans.
(6) The butchers at Pingkiang killed progressive people.
(7) Read was a progressive without being wholly partisan.
中文例句 (1) 她是那个时代最进步的作家。
(2) 那位著名的进步思想家被邀请在会议上发表演讲。
(3) 他发觉,说话障碍逐渐厉害起来。
(4) 这是英语学习的渐进课程。
(5) 如今,有时候摇滚的革新并不为歌迷所接受。
(6) 平江惨案的那些刽子手,他们把进步分子杀了。
(7) 瑞德是个进步分子,不完全具有党派意识。
vocabulary简明 People who are progressive favor reform and civil liberties: this is the opposite of conservative, and means something close to liberal.
vocabulary扩展 Progressive people are interested in change and progress. You're a progressive thinker if you like to think up new ways of doing things and you’re open to change. You have a progressive attitude towards gender if you dress girls in blue and boys in pink to challenge stereotypes. Progressive also refers to a type of verb tense, and to taxes that increase as your income increases. This word applies to lots of things that slowly increase or keep making progress.
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1
[ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]进步的;先进的;革新的 Someone who is progressive or has progressive ideas has modern ideas about how things should be done, rather than traditional ones.
  • ...a progressive businessman who had voted for Roosevelt in 1932 and 1936...

    在1932年和1936年投票支持罗斯福的开明商人

  • Willan was able to point to the progressive changes he had already introduced...

    维兰能够找出他已经采用的一些革新。

  • The children go to a progressive school.

    这些孩子在一所先进的学校念书。

  • A progressive is someone who is progressive.进步人士;改革派人士
    • The Republicans were deeply split between progressives and conservatives.

      共和党的革新派和保守派之间存在严重的分裂。

2
[ADJ 形容词](变化等)逐渐的,逐步发生的,逐步发展的 A progressive change happens gradually over a period of time.
  [usu ADJ n]
  • One prominent symptom of the disease is progressive loss of memory.

    这种疾病的一个显著症状就是记忆逐渐丧失。

  • ...the progressive development of a common foreign and security policy.

    共同外交与安全政策的逐步发展

progressively
  • Her symptoms became progressively worse...

    她的症状日渐恶化。

  • The amount of grant the council received from the Government was progressively reduced.

    这个委员会获得的政府津贴数额逐渐减少。

3
[ADJ 形容词](语法中)同continuous In grammar, progressive means the same as continuous.
  [ADJ n]

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