progressive

• adj. 進步的；先進的
• n. 改革論者；進步分子

來自progress,前進，進步。

progressive (adj.)

c. 1600, "characterized by advancement" (in action, character, etc.), from progress (n.) + -ive, or else from French progressif, from past participle stem of Latin progredi. Of taxation, from 1889; of jazz, from 1947. Meaning "characterized by striving for change and innovation, avant-garde, liberal" is from 1908.

In the socio-political sense "favoring reform; radically liberal," it emerged in various British contexts from the 1880s; in the U.S. it was active as a movement in the 1890s and a generation thereafter, the name being taken again from time to time, most recently by some more liberal Democrats and other social activists, by c. 2000. The noun in the sense "one who favors social and political change in the name of progress" is first attested 1865 (originally in Christianity). Earlier in a like sense were progressionist (1849, adjective; 1884, noun), progressist (1848). Related: Progressively; progressiveness.

1. One prominent symptom of the disease is progressive loss of memory.

這種疾病的一個顯著症狀就是記憶逐漸喪失。

來自柯林斯例句

2. These weaknesses negated his otherwise progressive attitude towards the staff.

這些缺點抵消了他在其他方麵對待員工還算開明的態度。

來自柯林斯例句

3. a progressive reduction in the size of the workforce

勞力數量的逐步減少

來自《權威詞典》

4. It was a progressive disease and he would suffer more and more.

病情逐漸加劇,他將忍受越來越大的痛苦.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

5. This is a yardstick for measuring whether a person is really progressive.

這是衡量一個人是否真正進步的標準.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》