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Advance 例:The Advanced Verb Advancing Means Make Time

单词 advancing
音标
英[ədˈvɑ:nsɪŋ] 美[ədˈvænsɪŋ]
解释
n.进步;超前;提前;推进;v.(使)前进( advance的现在分词 );(使)发展;促进;提高;
例句

VERB
(常指为攻击而)前进,推进
To advance means to move forward, often in order to attack someone.
例:Reports from Chad suggest that rebel forces are advancing on the capital...来自乍得的报告显示叛军正向首都推进。
例:The water is advancing at a rate of 5cm a day...水位正以每天5厘米的速度上升。

VERB
(尤指知识)发展,进步
To advance means to make progress, especially in your knowledge of something.
例:Medical technology has advanced considerably...医学技术突飞猛进。
例:Japan has advanced from a rural, feudal society to an urban, industrial power.日本已从封建农业社会发展成一个城市化工业强国。

VERB
贷给;预付;预支
If you advance someone a sum of money, you lend it to them, or pay it to them earlier than arranged.
例:I advanced him some money, which he would repay on our way home...我先借给他一些钱,在我们回家的路上他会还给我的。
例:The bank advanced $1.2 billion to help the country with debt repayments.银行预支12亿美元帮助该国偿还债务。

N-COUNT
贷款;预付款
An advance is money which is lent or paid to someone before they would normally receive it.
例:She was paid a £100,000 advance for her next two novels.她接下来的两部小说得到了10万英镑的预付稿费。

VERB
提前(未来事件的日期);使(未来事件)提前发生
To advance an event, or the time or date of an event, means to bring it forward to an earlier time or date.
例:Too much protein in the diet may advance the ageing process...饮食中摄入过量蛋白质可能会加速衰老。
例:The country's election commission has advanced the date of parliamentary elections by three days.该国的选举委员会将议会选举日期提前了3天。

VERB
促进,推动(事业、利益或主张);使加速
If you advance a cause, interest, or claim, you support it and help to make it successful.
例:When not producing art of his own, Oliver was busy advancing the work of others.奥利弗在不搞自己的艺术创作时,就会忙着帮助别人完成作品。

VERB
提出(理论、论点)
When a theory or argument is advanced, it is put forward for discussion.
例:Many theories have been advanced as to why some women suffer from depression...就一些女性患抑郁症的原因,各种说法纷至沓来。
例:An important set of ideas have been advanced by the biologist Rupert Sheldrake.生物学家鲁珀特·谢尔德雷克已提出了一整套重要的观点。

N-VAR
(常指军事行动中的)前进,行进,推进
An advance is a forward movement of people or vehicles, usually as part of a military operation.
例:...an advance on enemy positions...向敌方阵地推进
例:The defences are intended to obstruct any advance by tanks and other vehicles.这些防御工事用于阻止坦克等车辆前进。

N-PLURAL
挑逗;勾引
If you make advances to someone, you try to start a sexual relationship with them.
例:Mark had for some time been making advances towards her...马克追她已经有一段时间了。
例:She rejected his advances during the trip to Cannes.在去往戛纳的途中,她拒绝了他的挑逗。

N-VAR
进步;进展
An advance in a particular subject or activity is progress in understanding it or in doing it well.
例:Air safety has not improved since the dramatic advances of the 1970s...航空安全自从20世纪70年代得到显著提高之后,至今再没有任何改善。
例:Their progress at work was mirrored by their children's educational advance.子女在学业上有所进步,他们在工作上也就会有所起色。

N-SING
改进;改善
If something is an advance on what was previously available or done, it is better in some way.
例:This could be an advance on the present situation.这样可能会改善当前状况。

ADJ
预先的;事先的
Advance booking, notice, or warning is done or given before an event happens.
例:They don't normally give any advance notice about which building they're going to inspect...他们一般不会预先通知检查哪座大楼。
例:The event received little advance publicity.关于该事件事先几乎没有报道。

ADJ
先行的;先遣的
An advance party or group is a small group of people who go on ahead of the main group.
例:The 20-strong advance party will be followed by another 600 soldiers as part of UN relief efforts.作为联合国救援行动的一部分,在这支由20多人组成的先头部队之后还将增派600名士兵。

PREP-PHRASE
在…的前面;在…之前
If one thing happens or is done in advance of another, it happens or is done before the other thing.
例:I had asked everyone to submit questions in advance of the meeting.我已请每个人在会议之前提交问题。

PHRASE
提前;事先
If you do something in advance, you do it before a particular date or event.
例:The subject of the talk is announced a week in advance.会谈的主题已提前一周宣布。
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