progressive
渐进式,循序渐进,渐进,渐进式的
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Definitions
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- : favoring or advocating progress, change, improvement, or reform, as opposed to wishing to maintain things as they are, especially in political matters: a progressive mayor.
- : making progress toward better conditions; employing or advocating more enlightened or liberal ideas, new or experimental methods, etc.: a progressive community.
- : characterized by such progress, or by continuous improvement.
- : Progressive, of or relating to any of the Progressive parties in politics.
- : going forward or onward; passing successively from one member of a series to the next; proceeding step by step.
- : noting or pertaining to a form of taxation in which the rate increases with certain increases in taxable income.
- : of or relating to progressive education: progressive schools.
- : Grammar. noting a verb aspect or other verb category that indicates action or state going on at a temporal point of reference.
- : Medicine/Medical. continuously increasing in extent or severity, as a disease.
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- : a person who is progressive or who favors progress or reform, especially in political matters.
- : Progressive, a member of a Progressive party.
- : Grammar. the progressive aspect.a verb form or construction in the progressive, as are thinking in They are thinking about it.
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Examples
On the other, there’s a point when even the most progressive parent squirms when confronted with a moaning, breathless roll in the sheets on a 50-inch screen.
The Council, under Campbell, Williamson said, was not nearly as progressive as it acted.
He was also involved in the founding of Catalist, the flagship progressive data company.
Key financial regulatory positions remain unfilled, and progressives oppose some leading candidates.
Today’s progressives are in danger of repeating my generation’s mistakes.
Weiss is likely to get confirmed even as Warren and a handful of other progressive Democrats vote no.
But now his politics were offending the progressive sensibilities of the American film industry.
They are afflicted with “progressive spiritual emptiness,” he said, which no amount of academic honors and degrees can fill.
Some imagine Senator Elizabeth Warren as the charismatic leader of a progressive version of the “tea party.”
Throughout the progressive movement, this sentiment is echoed almost everywhere.
The act, however, is a progressive piece of legislation and creates new conditions as the result of its own operation.
At first geologists were disposed to attribute all the phenomena of mountain-folding to the progressive cooling of the earth.
Science and revelation are therefore progressive, though in somewhat different ways.
In this section we can see how the progressive melting gradually brings the rocky débris into plain view.
I am too enlightened and progressive to feel comfortable in my own country, and that is why I spend so much time in England.