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单词 gradually
释义
gradually
adverb
uk
/ˈɡrædʒ.u.ə.li/us
/ˈɡrædʒ.u.ə.li/
B2
slowlyover aperiodoftimeor adistance:
逐步地，逐渐地；平缓地
Gradually, sherealizedthat he wasn'ttellingher thetruth.她渐渐地意识到他不跟她说实话。
Thebankslopesgradually down to theriver.河岸平缓地向下一直延伸到水边。
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples
slowly
  • slowlyI got out of bed and walked slowly to the door.
  • slowGo slower! I can't keep up.
  • at a slow paceThey are easy hikes, done at a slow pace.
  • at a slow speedYou only have to hit a pedestrian at a slow speed to kill them.
  • at slow rateThe economy grew at a slower rate during the second half of the year.
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More examples
  • Thesoundof hisfootstepsgraduallydiedaway.
  • Thebankslopesgradually down to theriver.
  • Thepainfulmemoriesgraduallyrecededin hermind.
  • As theplotunfolds, you graduallyrealizethat allyourinitialassumptionswerewrong.
  • Those whodisagreedwith the director'sviewpointwere graduallyedgedout of thecompany.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Slow and moving slowly
  • (as) slow as molassesidiom
  • at a snail's paceidiom
  • by and byidiom
  • by degreesidiom
  • clawyourway(somewhere)idiom
  • drift
  • float
  • infiltrate
  • infiltration
  • jog
  • labour
  • lag
  • laggard
  • laggy
  • sluggishness
  • snail
  • steadily
  • steadiness
  • steady
  • struggle
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(Definition ofgraduallyfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofgradually

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Small lanes weregraduallyadded to demarcate different sections and also to connect them as an organic whole.
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Over the next three weeks, the effectgraduallyreturned.
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Servants weregraduallyreplaced by other types of labour with work duties as crofters or different types of paid workers.
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Formal political influence over policy increasedgraduallyover the whole period at the expense of technical influence, and social objectives were given priority.
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Imports of raw cotton onlygraduallytook up the slack-and then only in quite erratic fashion.
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The voltage pulse wasgraduallyincreased until some and the experiof the pulses were turbulent.
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The last particles merely coolgraduallyand never react.
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The scale length becomes long furthermore, the total beam energygraduallydecreases.
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The water level (decreased/was decreased)gradually. 12.
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The dry icegraduallysublimed throughout the 2-d period, and had disappeared by the time samples were removed from the refrigerator.
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Both genres have been popular in the past, but have beengraduallyreplaced by popular music.
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Graduallyfrom then he became very withdrawn, and he stopped reading the papers.
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Sufficient practice may enable the poor readers tograduallystore the orthographic form into memory and rely on direct recognition at the time of posttesting.
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If wegraduallyreduce the degree to which this value is realized, we shall eventually reach a point at which it is lost.
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After having more than doubled, to 1,780,000, by the mid-eighteenth century, itgraduallydecreased to 1,520,000 over the next hundred years.
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