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单词 progress
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progress
Word forms: progresses, progressing , progressed pronunciation note:   The noun is pronounced (prgres , US prɑː- ). The verb is pronounced (prəgres ).
1. uncountable noun B1
Progress is the process of gradually improving or getting nearer to achieving or completing something.
The medical community continues to make progress in the fight against cancer.
The two sides made little if any progress towards agreement.
Synonyms: development, increase, growth, advance  
2. singular noun B1+
The progress of a situation or action is the way in which it develops.
The CEO is reported to have been delighted with the progress of the first day's talks. [+ of]
Ellen would keep me abreast of the progress by phone.
3. verb B2
To progress means to move over a period of time to a stronger, more advanced, or more desirable state.
He will visit once a fortnight to see how his new staff are progressing. [VERB]
Were you surprised that his disease progressed so quickly? [VERB]
He started with sketching and then progressed to painting. [VERB + to]
4. verb
If events progress, they continue to happen gradually over a period of time.
As the evening progressed, sadness turned to rage. [VERB]
Life was hard, and it became harder as the war progressed. [VERB]
5. verb
If you progress something, you cause it to develop. [formal]
Very little was done to progress the case in the first 10 or so months after K was charged. [VERB noun]
6. in progress phrase B2
If something is in progress, it has started and is still continuing.
The game was already in progress when we took our seats.
The diaries are a mixture of confession, work in progress and observation.
Synonyms: going on, happening, continuing, being done  
Quotations:
Printing, gunpowder, and the magnet... these three have changed the whole face and state of things throughout the worldFrancis BaconEssays
What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisanceHavelock EllisImpressions and Comments
Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charterNadine GordimerSpeak Out: The Necessity of Protest
You can't say civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new wayWill Rogers
That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankindNeil Armstrongon his first steps on the moon's surface
One step at a time
Collocations:
career progress
His choice of transport has matched his career progress.
Times, Sunday Times
As you showcase skills and learn new techniques from someone fascinating, they could accelerate your career progress.
The Sun
Yet a combined diploma and degree system leaves room to move up the hierarchy and enjoy career progress.
Times, Sunday Times
It's also one of the most meritocratic industries to work in, with no set entry qualifications but fast career progress for savvy staff.
The Sun
Career progress demanded the letters of a degree rather than the merit of hard-earned bedside practice.
Times, Sunday Times
follow progress
And to follow their progress, we asked them to keep a week-by-week diary.
The Sun (2008)
After around 1,000 sleepless nights, this documentary follows her progress at a leading sleep clinic.
The Sun (2009)
The children's progress was followed for 40 years.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
make progress
We have made significant progress but we now need to maintain the pressure.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Meanwhile, they were making progress with their plans to sell the business.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
Now you trust in your own ideas, you make real progress.
The Sun (2014)
progress quickly
It's become easier than ever to progress quickly,' he says, 'to make money overnight, to start up your own business, to have a portfolio career.
Times, Sunday Times
With a bit of confidence, you can progress quickly to standing, especially if you have experience as a skater or surfer.
The Sun
Some relationships progress quickly online, only to fall apart in real life.
Times,Sunday Times
If you're motivated it's relatively easy to progress quickly, and before you know it you could be taking on a mountain.
Times, Sunday Times
Any of the candidate vaccines that elicit antibodies are then likely to progress quickly to clinical trials.
Times, Sunday Times
progress rapidly
The value of this sort of back-up goes some way towards explaining why leaders with numerous protégés progress rapidly in their careers, she added.
Times, Sunday Times
Once symptoms appear, they may progress rapidly and reach peak intensity in as little as three days.
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Signs of infection on fruits or leaves include water-soaked, necrotic lesions, which progress rapidly under ideal conditions.
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Although most infections follow an indolent course, the disease can progress rapidly.
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Primary influenza pneumonia occurs most commonly in adults and may progress rapidly to acute lung injury requiring mechanical ventilation.
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progress slowly
Young people should be encouraged to progress slowly, but with pleasure.
Times, Sunday Times
If her anxiety rises, go back a step and build on progress slowly.
The Sun
Such tears progress slowly until a part of one of the cusps becomes flail and the amount of regurgitation increases.
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Lesions often enlarge and progress slowly, over many years.
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Peripheral neuropathy may be chronic (a long term condition where symptoms begin subtly and progress slowly) or acute (sudden onset, rapid progress and slow resolution).
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progress steadily
A sensible legislature will start at the top, enacting the best laws first, and progress steadily down the list until it arrives at the borderline cases.
Times, Sunday Times
For instance, they have never given up the idea of span of control, nor of progressing steadily through the ranks.
Times, Sunday Times
Weakness comes on slowly (over months or years) and progresses steadily and usually leads to severe weakness and wasting of arm and leg muscles.
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In this way, the line of guests progresses steadily without unnecessary delay.
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Works to repair, refurbish and repaint the temple progressed steadily.
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progress update
Now she draws up weekly objectives for homeworkers, who send a progress update via email at the end of each day and come in to the office for weekly meetings.
Times, Sunday Times
The further you run, the more supplies you pick up, and every few minutes you get a progress update.
Times, Sunday Times
The company has pledged to provide investors with a 787 progress update every 90 days.
Times, Sunday Times
As they left, a messenger arrived; the admiralty was demanding a progress update.
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Project progress update consists of a report in form of conference paper, presentation and training or demo when applicable.
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rapid progress
Steam engines were soon doing the work of 40 million people working flat out and progress was rapid .
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
They made rapid progress and by 1950 were entering competitions.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
But he has made rapid progress with his recovery over recent weeks.
The Sun (2012)
real progress
Encouraging Japan to do more in areas that are both politically and economically feasible may result in real progress.
Abshire, David M. Preventing World War III - A Realistic Grand Strategy (1988)
Friendships are a hot topic and ambitions you share make real progress.
The Sun (2017)
You add common sense to imagination and make real progress.
The Sun (2009)
The main one is that we can't make real progress toward full equality in the workplace until we do the same at home.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
You set yourself clear goals and make real progress now you trust your judgement and rely less on others.
The Sun (2014)
remarkable progress
She appeared to have been making remarkable progress in recent months.
The Sun
Doubtless, it will be tested as his remarkable progress draws ever more attention.
Times, Sunday Times
Peer-to-peer platforms will point, justifiably, to the remarkable progress they have made in an industry that barely existed a decade ago.
Times, Sunday Times
But over the years remarkable progress has been made.
Smithsonian
This remarkable progress has been achieved in only 23 years of operation.
Times, Sunday Times
satisfactory progress
Only schools that can show clear and satisfactory progress by attainment thresholds will escape if their results dip below the so-called floor target.
Times, Sunday Times
He realized that the difference between satisfactory progress and whimsical perfection simply costs too much.
Christianity Today
The satisfactory progress of the road was due in great measure to their efforts and disregard of danger.
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There was a subsequent inspection in 2007 in which the school was seen to be making satisfactory progress and therefore the notice to improve was revoked.
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science progresses
But science progresses not through dogma and polemic, but by exploring new possibilities and by paying attention to the evidence.
Times, Sunday Times
Where the arts merely accumulate, science progresses.
Times, Sunday Times
Science progresses while politics only accumulates.
Times, Sunday Times
scientific progress
The scientific progress meant doctors were now in the 'endgame' of fighting the disease.
Times, Sunday Times
How throughout history scientific progress has fuelled social change, which in its turn has provoked new scientific questions to be answered.
Times, Sunday Times
Differences of opinion, and the emergence of new ideas, are essential for scientific progress.
Times, Sunday Times
In the late 1960s and 70s, the triumphal tales of scientific progress were challenged.
The Times Literary Supplement
But what of scientific progress, technological change, the triumphs of engineering?
Times, Sunday Times
season progresses
Looking at the number of teams who might be relegated, entropy declines as the season progresses and the outcome becomes more clear-cut.
Times, Sunday Times
It showed we are growing and growing as the season progresses.
The Sun
Looking better and better as the season progresses.
The Sun
However, as the season progresses, particular strains are more successful and become dominant.
Times, Sunday Times
Remember, as the season progresses into autumn, colours are likely to deepen and lighter colours will shine out in more shaded situations.
The Sun
significant progress
The proposed strike motion will come into effect if there is no'significant progress' in talks with bosses.
The Sun (2014)
The trust has made significant progress this year.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
We have made significant progress on the key issues.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
slow progress
The slow progress has exacerbated the cash squeeze.
Times, Sunday Times (2018)
A distant relative of the elephant, it spends its life in the sea, its slow progress grazing sea grass making it easy prey.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
In the end, the eurozone heavy hitters could not hide their frustration at the slow progress.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
They made a slow progress through the crowded town: the swinging cyclist, and the reverberating juggernaut.
Harvey, John THE LEGEND OF CAPTAIN SPACE
The good news is that there is slow progress.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
social progress
He will declare business the 'most powerful force for social progress the world has ever known'.
The Sun
And there are many questions that other institutions, such as employers, professions and universities, must answer before social progress can happen.
Times, Sunday Times
His reservation was rather that any amount of social progress would not necessarily secure individual happiness.
The Times Literary Supplement
In social progress terms, we are what our income suggests we should be.
Times, Sunday Times
It's a mutual exchange that can act as a spur to social progress.
Times,Sunday Times
spiritual progress
But so many obstacles stand in the way of spiritual progress that they will easily be delayed again.
Christianity Today
A single person may carry millions of them around, and their presence impedes spiritual progress.
Times, Sunday Times
Through the foundation he established he aimed to hasten spiritual progress, believing it to be the most urgent issue facing humanity.
Times, Sunday Times
A good head's own salvation and spiritual progress are protected by humbling adversity; without it, success would lift him up on the wind of presumption.
Christianity Today
Leaders used the meetings to instruct members and check up on their spiritual progress.
Christianity Today
stall progress
Human rights activists are concerned that the new bureaucracy will stall progress in addressing these issues.
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The stalled progress on implementation, more than a year later, points to the limitations of this approach.
ST
Police investigations and court proceedings brought by former detainees stalled progress.
Times, Sunday Times
She said that this was stalling progress in reducing inequality.
Times, Sunday Times
The star, 30, moaned that the constant switching of education ministers was stalling progress on healthy meals.
The Sun
steady progress
Having made steady progress she took a turn for the worse and a subsequent scan revealed another tumour.
Times, Sunday Times
You're making slow and steady progress at work, but things aren't coming your way quickly enough.
The Sun
You're getting smarter about money and although steady progress might not sound exciting the changes it brings will be.
The Sun
For once there are few hurdles or setbacks to overcome, so you should be making steady progress on your journey in life.
The Sun
Money matters still need to be addressed but you're making steady progress in that field so don't worry.
The Sun
substantial progress
Although a century would pass before anything like substantial progress was made, these amendments both reflected and accelerated changing popular attitudes toward government.
Christianity Today
I'm pleased to say that substantial progress has been made.
Times, Sunday Times
That substantial progress will be reflected in future appointments.
Times, Sunday Times
Substantial progress has been made, but much work remains to be done.
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Belligerent rights would only be granted when substantial progress was made on volunteer withdrawal.
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sufficient progress
But it has to be asked whether such an approach will ever make sufficient progress.
Times, Sunday Times
The hope must be that he makes sufficient progress to generate a groundswell of support and the election of a reform-based government.
Times, Sunday Times
If any has made sufficient progress and can't afford the annual subscription, the club extends the free membership.
Times, Sunday Times
He later said it was too early to confirm 'sufficient progress'.
The Sun
She stressed that the proposals would be monitored and if there was not sufficient progress 'we reserve the right to take further steps'.
Times, Sunday Times
summer progresses
As summer progresses, more sporadic and less musical calls echo around the hills as adult birds use their voice to keep control over their fledgelings.
Times, Sunday Times
If he stays fit, we can expect him to crank through the gears as the summer progresses.
Times, Sunday Times
The leaves can become a flaming red as summer progresses.
Times, Sunday Times
But remember that the leaves fade as the summer progresses, so it's a good idea to have something behind them to spill forward and cover their space.
Times, Sunday Times
Larvae and adults are sensitive to shorter daylengths as the summer progresses that signal the coming of winter and induce diapause.
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swift progress
The swift progress of the war rendered parachuting unnecessary.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
A key factor in his swift progress is that he is bright.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
The swift progress of the deadly disease was fearful to watch.
THE LAST OF THE GENTLEMEN ADVENTURERS: Coming of Age in the Arctic (2004)
tangible progress
He's promising tangible progress 'by mid-year'.
Times, Sunday Times
His efforts on behalf of schools resulted in some tangible progress, particularly in terms of increased local funding, longer terms and consolidation of schools.
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Nationalization has simply failed to yield any tangible progress.
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technical progress
Eventually, technical progress may deliver the next expansion.
Times, Sunday Times
We tend to believe that scientific and technical progress can usually be harnessed for the benefit of humankind.
Times, Sunday Times
Technical progress seems to be playing a part in this, too, as computers replace people doing clerical and other routine tasks.
Times, Sunday Times
The same technical progress that has helped improve quality also contains its greatest threat-piracy.
Times, Sunday Times
Some of that reflected developments in commodity prices, but much of it reflected technical progress and lower prices for industrial products.
Times, Sunday Times
technological progress
Success will depend on how well we can mobilize all our organizational, economic and technological progress.
Inside Perestroika: The Future of the Soviet Economy (1990)
It is of course impossible to stop scientific and technological progress.
Christianity Today (2000)
The scale and pace of technological progress continues to confound predictions.
Basic Marketing. Principles and Practice (1986)
technology progresses
As battery technology progresses, the cells are getting smaller and more powerful, providing better range and even faster recharging.
Times, Sunday Times
As technology progresses, new and inventive methods of music composition come about.
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As technology progresses, and work becomes exponentially efficient, the work itself becomes exponentially more trivial.
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They argued the relative price structure of one period would quickly become obsolete as technology progresses at different paces in each economic sector.
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However, as technology progresses, it has been found that praseodymium can be incorporated into neodymium-iron-boron magnets, thereby extending the supply of the much in demand neodymium.
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track progress
Text messages are sent at key stages during transactions and clients are able to track progress, at any hour, on their website.
Times, Sunday Times
It will enable strategists to track progress throughout the day and enable volunteers to have up-to-the-minute information on supporters who have yet to vote.
Times, Sunday Times
But at least with a specific savings account he can keep a closer eye on his balance and track progress towards the £30,000 deposit target.
The Sun
You can also set goals and track progress.
The Sun
The results will all be kept on a card (like a credit card) that can be inserted in the machine at a later date to track progress.
Times, Sunday Times
tremendous progress
The old methodology was becoming embarrassingly inaccurate, thanks, in part, to tremendous progress in countering heart disease and strokes.
Times, Sunday Times
While it's true that events are as dramatic as they are disruptive, they will make tremendous progress in a short space of time.
Times, Sunday Times
In the past year alone, we've made tremendous progress.
Times, Sunday Times
Despite this, tremendous progress has been made in many areas.
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It has made tremendous progress in the field of industry and technology.
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trial progresses
However, as the trial progresses, these will be removed and the pods will drive themselves.
Times, Sunday Times
The court ordered them yesterday to remain in custody for six more months while the trial progresses.
Times, Sunday Times
The actress added that as her character's trial progresses many different characters arrive to give evidence.
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week progresses
The more skills you display, the better your career will look as the week progresses.
The Sun
After a slow start, your plans will expand and get stronger as the week progresses.
The Sun
You're scared to believe it, but things are getting better and better as the week progresses - best of all financially.
The Sun
As the week progresses, we bond as a group.
Times, Sunday Times
Forecasters say that temperatures will drop as the week progresses, with widespread frosts at night and low daytime temperatures.
Times, Sunday Times
Translations:
Chinese: 进展, 进展
Japanese: 進歩, 向上する
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