| 单词 | to make progress |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto make progress 2. spec. Advancement to a further or higher stage, or to further or higher stages successively; growth; development, usually to a better state or condition; improvement; an instance of this. Frequently to make progress.In later use applied esp. to manifestations of social and economic change or reform. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > [noun] growingc1380 profitingc1384 increasec1385 bettering?c1425 progress1457 advancementc1475 service1533 progression1586 increment1609 upgrowinga1618 flowering1629 rise1676 development1756 evolution1796 march1818 headway1832 upgrowth1844 upbuilding1876 the world > action or operation > continuing > progress, advance, or further continuance > [noun] > to a further or higher stage profitingc1384 progress1457 progression1586 movement1866 1457 Acts Parl. Scotl. II. 52/2 Sen Gode..hes send oure souerane lorde sik progres and prosperite, that [etc.]. ?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1865) I. 203 (MED) Of the begynnenge of Longobardes and of the progresse [L. De progressu] of theym, Paulus Diacon..rehersethe in his firste boke of the story of Longobardes. 1540 T. Some Treat. Lordis Flayle sig. D4 Nowe therfor by fayth we haue begone owre quiettnes in God, in which also we do dayly make progresse. a1578 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) I. 132/1 We man..grant thy felicietie and happie progres in all thy doingis. 1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes To Rdr. If you consider the beginning, progresse, and perpetuall felicitie of this the Othoman Empire. 1651 T. Hobbes Philos. Rudim. Dedicatory sig. A8 Not of his progresse in Science, but of his wandrings from it. 1653 Declar. Ld. Gen. & Councell of Officers 2 No considerable effect was produced, nor any such progresse made, as might imply their reall intentions to accomplish what was Petitioned for. 1686 tr. J. Chardin Trav. Persia 24 Having made no farther progress in his Business. 1713 J. Addison in Guardian 10 July 2/1 I am ashamed that I am not able to make a quicker Progress through the French Tongue. 1745 E. Young Consolation 97 Nature delights in Progress; in Advance From Worse to Better: But, when Minds ascend, Progress, in Part, depends upon Themselves. 1780 B. Franklin Let. 8 Feb. The rapid Progress true Science now makes, occasions my regretting sometimes that I was born so soon. 1846 R. C. Trench Notes Miracles Introd. iv. 34 The very idea of God's kingdom is that of progress, of a gradually fuller communication..of himself to men. a1862 H. T. Buckle Misc. Wks. (1872) I. 349 As civilization advances, the progress of manufactures greatly outstrips the progress of agriculture. 1888 S. Moore tr. K. Marx & F. Engels Manifesto Communist Party i. 14 These also supply the proletariat with fresh elements of enlightenment and progress. 1947 E. E. Cummings Let. 21 Sept. (1969) 179 A Chinese professor who spoke, long ago, at Yale; saying that the East does not want ‘progress’, does not want lipstick & movies. 1967 Canad. Med. Assoc. Jrnl. 97 309 The Beveridge Report on social insurance identified ‘five giants’ in the path of social progress: want, disease, ignorance, squalor and idleness. 1996 Toronto Star (Nexis) 26 Sept. c16 You should try to attend classes at least twice a week... Any less and your progress and advancement to a higher belt level will be slow. < as lemmas |
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