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gradually

/graj-oo-uh-lee/US // ˈgrædʒ u ə li //

逐渐,逐步,渐渐地,逐渐地

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Definitions

adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1
    • : by small degrees or little by little: The hurricane moved northwestward to northward for two days, gradually weakened to a depression, and then turned eastward.Over the following decades, the curriculum was gradually expanded, with additional offerings in history, government, languages, geology, and geography.

Synonyms & Antonyms

adv.happening slowly, evenly

Examples

  • Over its first decade, however, this gradually changed, shifting from open derision to open celebration.

  • His team’s model suggests that deaths could decline to about 88,000 simply by introducing a vaccine gradually, giving it to 10 percent of the population each month, and distributing it uniformly without prioritizing any groups.

  • A strengthening economy should gradually lift rates, boosting “net interest income”—the spread between what banks charge on home and credit card loans and what they pay in interest on deposits.

  • His team’s model suggests that deaths could decline to about 88,000 if a vaccine were introduced gradually, given to 10% of the population each month, and distributed uniformly without prioritizing any groups.

  • As you get stronger and your discomfort decreases, gradually increase the number of sets, capping it off at four.

  • As Sutton shows in his book, the important shift took place gradually, from the end of the Civil War until World War II.

  • The Butterbrief, issued by Pope Innocent VIII, was a turning point for the then bland Stollen, which gradually became sweeter.

  • In the last few years, however, Spahn gradually began to notice changes in Ruby Pearl.

  • The email exchanges started out as cordial, if cold, but gradually grew more confrontational.

  • The relationships between the characters have evolved almost organically, certainly gradually.

  • After about the forty-fifth year it becomes gradually less; after seventy-five years it is about one-half the amount given.

  • The foster-father, who was an American resident in Hong-Kong, found his eyesight gradually failing him.

  • The cultivation of tobacco gradually spread from one State to another.

  • In like manner the mouth, from being a bare symbolic indication, gradually takes on form and likeness.

  • I thought we were in for an encore performance, but gradually the uproar died away, and by midnight all was quiet.