furtherance

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈfɜːðəɹəns/|/ˈfɜːðɹəns/    美 /ˈfɝðɚəns/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The act of furthering or helping forward; assistance towards something desired. countable,uncountable
    — Though so profound a double-dealer, I was in no sense a hypocrite; both sides of me were in dead earnest; I was no more myself when I laid aside restraint and plunged in shame, than when I laboured, in the eye of day, at the furtherance of knowledge or the relief of sorrow and suffering.

词形变化

furtherances plural

词源

Etymology tree
English further
Latin -iader.
Old French -ancebor.
Middle English -aunce
English -ance
English furtherance
From further + -ance.
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