progress

名词 n. 动词 v.
/ˈpɹəʊ.ɡɹɛs/    /ˈpɹɑ.ɡɹɛs/|/-ɹəs/|/ˈpɹəʉ.ɡɹes/|[ˈpɹɐʉ.ɡɹes]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Movement or advancement through a series of events, or points in time; development through time. uncountable,usually
    — Testing for the new antidote is currently in progress.
  2. Specifically, advancement to a higher or more developed state; development, growth. uncountable,usually
    — Science has made extraordinary progress in the last fifty years.
  3. An official journey made by a monarch or other high personage; a state journey, a circuit. uncountable,usually
    — ... Queen Elizabeth in one of her progresses, stopping at Crawley to breakfast, was so delighted with some remarkably fine Hampshire beer which was then presented to her by the Crawley of the day (a handsome gentleman with a trim beard and a good leg), that she forthwith erected Crawley into a borough to send two members to Parliament ...
  4. A journey forward; travel. archaic,uncountable,usually
    — Now Tim began to be struck with these loitering progresses along the garden boundaries in the gloaming, and wondered what they boded.
  5. Movement onwards, forwards, or towards a specific objective or direction; advance. uncountable,usually
    — The thick branches overhanging the path made progress difficult.
动词 v.
  1. To move, go, or proceed forward; to advance. intransitive
    — Visitors progress through the museum at their own pace.
  2. To develop. intransitive
    — Societies progress unevenly.
  3. To develop.; To improve; to become better or more complete. broadly,intransitive
  4. To expedite. transitive
    — Or […] they came to progress matters in which Dudley had taken a hand, and left defrauded or bound over to the king.

词形变化

progresses plural progresses present,singular,third-person progressing participle,present progressed participle,past progressed past

词源

词源 1
From Middle English progresse, from Old French progres (“a going forward”), from Latin prōgressus (“an advance”), from the participle stem of prōgredī (“to go forward, advance, develop”), from pro- (“forth, before”) + gradi (“to walk, go”). Displaced native Old English forþgang.
词源 2
From the noun. Lapsed into disuse in the 17th century, except in the US. Considered an Americanism on reintroduction to use in the UK.
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