单词 | slowly but surely |
释义 | slowly but surelyslowly but surely used to emphasize that a change is happening, although it is happening slowly 〔变化〕的确在慢慢发生 We are slowly but surely gaining the support of the public. 我们的确正逐渐赢得民众的支持。 Examples from the Corpus slowly but surely• She's getting better, slowly but surely.• But the others were moving, slowly but surely.• Solid, rock like, you don't move easily and you take things slowly but surely.• The tangible, material aspect of this will come slowly but surely in the period between now and early November.• He's slowly but surely making his way through college.• Wendy says that slowly but surely our name is taking hold in this wide area.• Slowly but surely, the company is becoming successful again.• Sheer tiredness relaxed her limbs, and slowly but surely the warmth sent her off to sleep.• Yet slowly but surely they came back.• As regards the growth of the church, about a year after beginning to meet, slowly but surely we began to grow. → slowly but surely at slowly(1) |
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