| 单词 | advance |
| 释义 | ad·vance I. transitive verb 1. < preparing to advance his pawn > : forward < finding ways to advance the job more rapidly > a. < advance the ripening of fruit > b. < volunteers soliciting funds to advance the work of the society > < used propaganda to advance their cause > < advancing his own interests at the expense of his friend's > 2. < the rank of lieutenant, to which he was advanced in 1940 > < was advanced to the priesthood > < advanced him over the heads of his seniors > : raise in importance < in advancing the husband in the office, the corporation is quite likely to advance him socially — W.H.Whyte > 3. obsolete < greatly advancing his gay chivalry — Edmund Spenser > 4. a. law b. < advance an employee a week's pay as a loan > < to farmers willing to raise soybeans, seed is advanced by the company — American Guide Series: Michigan > 5. archaic < advanced their eyelids — Shakespeare > 6. a. < first scheduled for November 1, then advanced to October 15 > b. < modern scholarship has advanced the date of composition from the first to the second century A.D. > c. 7. a. < cautiously advancing one foot > < advanced the tunnel 10 feet a day > < advance the hands of a clock > b. phonetics (1) (2) 8. < advance an opinion > < explanations were advanced and rejected > < those advancing a claim to the vacant throne > 9. < measures to keep landlords from advancing rents unfairly > < advancing the price of gasoline twice in one week > intransitive verb 1. < opened the door and advanced into the room > < saw in the distance another lantern advancing toward them — Anne D. Sedgwick > < the infantry advanced to the attack > < the physicist, accustomed to … advancing from certainty — American Scholar > 2. < a question on which knowledge is advancing > < as he advanced in age and stature he advanced in knowledge > < their children are advancing toward maturity > < sagebrush and juniper are advancing at the expense of grass — G.R.Stewart > 3. < at 30 he had already advanced to colonel > < the family has advanced to a position of influence in the community > < the self-made man … who advanced through his own unaided efforts — R.B.Morris > < have a fair chance to advance > 4. < as wages advanced, so did the cost of living > < government securities advanced steadily > 5. of a color < deep colors advance > — contrasted with recede Synonyms: < these policies had been considerably advanced during the preceding year — Americana Annual > < ever alert to advance the cause of the freedom — W.H.Allison > forward is seldom applied to persons and perhaps stresses a little more than advance the activity or moral force intended to achieve the movement forward < the high school as a means of forwarding the education of all youth — T.H.Briggs > < his military operations were successful, forwarding the Union cause — T.M.Spaulding > further may be said, in comparison to advance and forward, to put the least stress upon the movement forward and a great deal on the activity or force < furthering no special school of art, the institute seeks to make the museum a compendium of the evolution and history of art as a whole — American Guide Series: Minnesota > < to further his selfish ends, he kept Monica from marrying the young man of her choice — Ann F. Wolfe > promote, in the sense pertinent here, usually implies nothing about a movement forward; it stresses solely the activity of assisting, encouraging, or fostering advancement, especially openly < she decided to promote a crusade to the Holy Land in a specially chartered liner — Carey McWilliams > < a sound forest economy promotes the prosperity of agriculture and rural life — A.F.Gustafson > Synonym: see in addition cite. II. 1. < the advance of the infantry > < the advance of the polar caps > < the frontier advance followed a well-defined pattern — R.A.Billington > 2. a. < mistaking material advance for spiritual enrichment — H.J.Laski > < the advance of farm techniques > < recent advances in social legislation > b. < far from being an advance on its predecessor, his new play is a regression > < a method which was a definite advance over earlier practices > 3. < during the year many workers won wage advances > < a year-long advance in stock prices > 4. < an attitude that discouraged all advances > < she would certainly misunderstand the most guarded words, the most careful advances — Joseph Conrad > 5. < offered him an advance to complete the book > < may also make cash advances to the packers before shipment is made — E.A.Duddy > 6. a. b. 7. < a Halloween advance written early in October > 8. • - in advance - in advance of III. 1. < advance payment > < an advance copy of a book > < advance information > 2. < sent out an advance party of soldiers > 3. < an advance depot > < advance base > |
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