1. 進(jìn)步的;先進(jìn)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.
e.g. ...a progressive businessman who had voted for Roosevelt in 1932 and 1936... 在1932年和1936年投票支持羅斯福的開(kāi)明商人 e.g. Willan was able to point to the progressive changes he had already introduced... 維蘭能夠找出他已經(jīng)采用的一些革新。
2. (變化等)逐漸的,逐步發(fā)生的,逐步發(fā)展的 A progressive change happens gradually over a period of time.
e.g. One prominent symptom of the disease is progressive loss of memory. 這種疾病的一個(gè)顯著(zhù)癥狀就是記憶逐漸喪失。 e.g. ...the progressive development of a common foreign and security policy. 共同外交與安全政策的逐步發(fā)展
progressively Her symptoms became progressively worse... 她的癥狀日漸惡化。 The amount of grant the council received from the Government was progressively reduced. 這個(gè)委員會(huì )獲得的政府津貼數額逐漸減少。
3. (語(yǔ)法中)同continuous In grammar, progressive means the same as continuous.
progressive英英釋義
noun
1. a person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties
Synonym: liberalliberalist
2. a tense of verbs used in describing action that is on-going