prolonging
present participle ofprolong
| 单词 | prolonging |
| 释义 | prolonging present participle ofprolong prolong verb[T] uk/prəˈlɒŋ/us/prəˈlɑːŋ/C1 to make something last alongertime: We were having such a goodtimethat wedecidedto prolongourstayby anotherweek. Shechewedeachdeliciousmouthfulasslowlyas she could, prolonging thepleasure. Continue & last
Examplesofprolongingprolonging In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. In fact, fathers could delay funding their sons' marriages on the grounds that money was unavailable, therebyprolongingtheir access to the young men's labor. From theCambridge English Corpus No one seriously proposed that the families were mistaken in thinking that ventilator support would be effective inprolongingthe patient's biological existence. From theCambridge English Corpus Therefore, it was argued, a process ofprolongingindependence will have substantial economic advantages, as care remains on lower cost settings. From theCambridge English Corpus Indirect costs such as unrelated healthcare costs and costs of general consumption generated byprolongingof life were not included in the analysis. From theCambridge English Corpus Prolonginglife is not typically a clinical goal of palliative care. From theCambridge English Corpus Of the remaining six, three had surgical thrombectomy, one developed bronchitis and two had renal anomalies which required evaluation before discharge, thusprolongingtheir hospitalization. From theCambridge English Corpus One physician questioned the wisdom ofprolongingthe dying. From theCambridge English Corpus Nevertheless, the possible efficacy of sub-imbibed storage inprolongingthe post-harvest lifespan of recalcitrant seeds has been suggested periodically since 1980. From theCambridge English Corpus The archive can benefit from the encouragement of personal engagements and preferences, sustaining andprolongingeach individual's commitment to the project. From theCambridge English Corpus Considerable support has been expressed for lifelong education initiatives, both in relation toprolongingworkforce involvement and in retirement. From theCambridge English Corpus The leveling technique reorganizes noncritical activities to reduce fluctuations in daily resource utilization without altering the activities' logical sequences norprolongingproject duration. From theCambridge English Corpus They actively take part in dramatizing the stories they hear,prolongingand adding more details to the stories. From theCambridge English Corpus Potential therapeutic strategies for delaying preterm birth andprolongingpregnancy will also be discussed. From theCambridge English Corpus This is not to say that crying and other behaviors are not used in later development as a means ofprolonginginvestment. From theCambridge English Corpus Postponed retirement solves this problem partially byprolongingthe redemption period of investments in human capital and thereby inducing higher extensive and intensive education. From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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