Definition of progressive in English:

progressive

adjective prəˈɡrɛsɪvprəˈɡrɛsɪv

1Happening or developing gradually or in stages.
进步的，先进的；逐步的，渐次的
a progressive decline in popularity
逐渐下降的名望。
Example sentencesExamples
- The Buddhist path is divided into three yanas, or vehicles, which represent levels or progressive stages of Buddhist teachings.
- Aging is not a disease but a normal, gradual, and progressive decline that begins in the thirties when biological aging initiates cellular changes throughout the body.
- To understand visualization practice, we have to understand something of the progressive stages of meditation.
- All in all there are four stages of progressive differentiation.
- It is important to mention that the stages are not necessarily progressive but indicate the depth of pathological involvement.
- Evidence emerged of progressive glass deterioration and raised concerns of possible parchment deterioration by hydrolysis.
- The two principal features of Bacon's new method were an emphasis on gradual, progressive inductions, and a method of exclusion.
- Three progressive stages of coding in the grounded theory method are open coding, axial coding, and selective coding.
- Gradual, progressive resistance is a far more effective - and safe - way to increase muscle strength.
- Aging does not have to mean a progressive decline in the quality of life, so extended good health is the new challenge in all societies today.
- One lesson a week will give a slow, but progressive development.
- At the same time one must observe the pattern of progressive deterioration here as well.
- The testing occurs in two stages, the first stage consisting of a progressive exertion test to measure endurance and a vertical leap test to measure explosive leg power.
- Avoid rapid, bouncing movements, and instead emphasize a slow, gradual, and progressive stretch of each muscle.
- Your inability to climb well can be improved if you find the key limiter and incorporate an objective plan to improve your fitness in progressive stages.
- Once the brace is removed, treatment involves progressive strengthening, gradual return to running then sport-specific drills.
- Successive appeals chronicled the progressive decline and eventual closure of the practice.
- The typical model of cancer palliative care might not suit people who have a gradual, progressive decline with unpredictable exacerbations.
- In such a case, the disease could have affected your operated ear, gradually resulting in the progressive loss of hearing.
- These courses may assist you in developing a comprehensive and progressive training program for staff to help reduce some of the risks involved in boating.
Synonyms
continuing, continuous, increasing, growing, developing, ongoing, intensifying, accelerating, escalating
1. 1.1 (of a medical condition) increasing in severity.
  （疾病等）进行性的，愈来愈严重的
  progressive liver failure
  进行性的肝衰退。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Alzheimer's disease is a chronic, progressive dementia developing over months to years.
  He had been examined periodically in recent months because of progressive congestive heart failure and peripheral edema.
  The report also recommends that people with progressive conditions, including rheumatoid arthritis, should be covered from the time of diagnosis.
  In contrast, tumors and ototoxic medications produce slowly progressive unilateral or bilateral lesions.
  An elderly black woman was readmitted to the hospital from a nursing home because of progressive weakness.
  Chronic progressive weakness is the classic presentation in genetic and metabolic myopathies.
  While the disorder is not progressive, the levels of independent function often deteriorate once a child enters adolescence and adulthood.
  It was a progressive condition that fed off itself, as well as people's fears about it.
  Once respiratory or renal disease develops, the course is usually rapidly progressive.
  An addiction is a progressive disorder with mounting consequences with a genetic, biological heritage.
  Obesity is also a progressive condition, unlike anorexia nervosa, which tends to ameliorate with age.
  He has rapidly progressive HIV disease as shown by his high viral load.
  Patients suffering from cholesterol emboli syndrome, a progressive disease unresponsive to therapy, may benefit from iloprost.
  The second phase, referred to as the cardiopulmonary phase, is manifested by severe, rapidly progressive respiratory failure.
  Furthermore, heart failure is a progressive condition: once symptoms appear, subsequent morbidity and mortality are high.
  Alzheimer's disease is a progressive disorder with a substantial impact on patients and their families.
  Multiple sclerosis is a progressive condition, which affects the nervous system, for which there is no cure.
  In a progressive condition such as cystic fibrosis, it is difficult to disentangle the effects of age from those of disease severity.
  On her second hospital day she developed fever, tachycardia and tachypnea, progressive respiratory distress, and hypotension.
  I developed progressive MS late in life at age 46 after three years of very stressful work.
2. 1.2 (of taxation or a tax) increasing as a proportion of the sum taxed as that sum increases.
  （税制，税种）累进的
  steeply progressive income taxes
  急遽累进的所得税。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Redressing economic inequality through more progressive taxation of the rich is out.
  Real wages increased by 44 percent and there were other gains in the form of food subsidies, shorter working hours and social insurance, financed by steep progressive taxation.
  Everyone agrees that the fairest form of taxation is a progressive income tax: the more one earns, the more one pays.
  Financing would come, most obviously, from the revival of steeply progressive taxation.
  He suggests using progressive taxation to reduce inequality.
  Income tax structures use standard per-person exemptions, progressive tax rates, and earned income credits.
  He thinks a more progressive tax system would bolster public confidence.
  This is a case in point to indicate that land-based property taxes are progressive.
  The drive to abolish the estate tax is just one part of a much broader attack on the progressive tax system.
  Sometimes I think it is useless to debate the economic effects of decisions on minimum wage, inheritance taxes, progressive taxation, etc.
  A nominally progressive tax structure to some degree retards the concentration over time of wealth among individuals.
  Other forms of progressive taxation, such as a tax on wealth, are common in other rich nations.
  Income tax rates will not be increased and the progressive taxation system will be preserved.
  Federal income tax is progressive, but this only barely makes up for the regressive nature of state and local taxes.
  How effective has this progressive tax structure been?
  Income splitting between spouses helps reduce taxes overall because of progressive tax rates.
  A meaningful minimum wage, reinforced by progressive taxation on high earners, could be a start.
  Income taxes are progressive - that is to say, you pay a higher proportion of your income the more money you make.
  State lawmakers' enthusiasm for cutting progressive taxes caught up with them in 2002.
  In Britain, income tax is a progressive tax, which is to say that the rich pay proportionately more than the poor.
2(of a person or idea) favouring social reform.
a relatively progressive Minister of Education
思想相对进步的教育部部长。
Example sentencesExamples
- Until very recently, most progressive people and organizations putting serious money into electoral work never considered spending on these terms.
- The persecution of Christians was restrained by his progressive measures.
- I have a question for radical and progressive people in the West.
- She is a persuasive speaker who has mainstreamed progressive ideas without allowing them to be labeled as too liberal or left-wing.
- As the church and aristocracy led an assault on the radical ideas coming from revolutionary France, Goya and his progressive friends found themselves under attack.
- People have high expectations about Labor, the party of reform and progressive ideas.
- Instead, the task for progressive people of all complexions should be to improve ourselves as human beings and rehabilitate our national house simultaneously.
- New organizing concepts and progressive ideas emerged during this period and they became lynchpins to the solutions of pestilence and urban design problems.
- The progressive beliefs and social justice we stand for, our core, must not be altered.
- Do you think outspokenly progressive people are held to a standard that's not expected of others?
- It was brought about by progressive ideas and by the desire for social change.
- If we are not to use man-made poisons, the answer favoured by progressive gardeners is some kind of natural remedy.
- I wish we had the luxury of choosing candidates purely on the basis of their commitment to a bottom-up revolution of the people and progressive ideas.
- Although a right-wing neo-conservative, he's quite progressive on social policy and this gives him a certain desirability.
- There was a time when championing state sovereignty was a progressive idea because the advance of statehood helped destroy empires.
- We're going to be strong on security and we're going to be socially progressive.
- Each stands for the failure of grandiose but flawed social experiments, master plans drawn up by enlightened and progressive lovers of humanity in the abstract.
- I'm not enthused by the domestic agenda but I am very glad we have a radical and progressive leader on the international scene.
- When our founding mothers and fathers wrote the Constitution, they took a major step forward in terms of progressive policies, by abolishing capital punishment.
- The progressive solution lies in developing a unified political movement of the working class, armed with a genuine socialist consciousness.
1. 2.1 Favouring change or innovation.
  崇尚（推进）变革（或革新）的
  the most progressive art school in Britain
  英国最能代表革新的艺术学校。
  Example sentencesExamples
  One thing this election confirmed is that progressive politics can be winning politics.
  Kitesurfing is the world's fastest growing watersport with new innovations and progressive manoeuvres being discovered regularly.
  His forward thinking, innovative and progressive methods of teaching, combined with his attention to detail of the core values of education, made him a wonderful asset to any school.
  The whole point of progressive politics is to stand with the most vulnerable people.
  As they receded in the late fifties and early sixties the political space in which to develop a progressive agenda expanded accordingly.
  While at once forward-looking, a progressive movement is also well rooted in the historic tides of reform in America.
  A progressive art teacher shakes up a stuffy private school in 50s America.
  If the differences are important, we need to overcome them so as to develop a progressive vision of a possible future and a strategy to get there.
  He did a number of innovative and progressive things with the staff at the Institute, and I was always amazed at his ability to remember everyone's name.
  The same has to happen here because while these developments are progressive and should be encouraged, they are still only piecemeal.
  An aging bus repair shop may seem an unlikely place for a progressive art school.
  Perhaps it was not the aesthetic itself but its complete break with the past that threatened the sensibilities - as progressive art will do.
  She also had a number of progressive medical views and was a pioneer of early rising after childbirth, a practice that is now universal.
  The more progressive art magazines evinced little more interest in the subject of photography.
  The law was more than matched by popular literature and even progressive political movements.
  Each new technical innovation has represented a progressive leap forward toward a better future.
  It was a stable, hardworking and mutually profitable relationship in a changing, innovative and progressive period in the upgrading of the standard and facility of education in our schools.
  The quality of what is on offer is astonishing - high-tech design equipment, satellite feeds for language teaching, vigorous contemporary progressive teaching in the arts.
  Wood's restless energy and monumental ambition made him an innovator who adapted the progressive spirit of the age to military affairs.
  The women's rights movement alone is one of the greatest progressive leaps forward in human history.
  Synonyms
  modern, liberal, advanced, forward-looking, forward-thinking, go-ahead, enlightened, enterprising, innovative, up-and-coming, new, dynamic, avant-garde, modernistic, disruptive
2. 2.2 Relating to or denoting a style of rock music popular especially in the 1970s and characterized by classical influences, the use of keyboard instruments, and lengthy compositions.
  进步的（尤指流行于20世纪70年代的一种摇滚乐，深受古典主义影响，使用键盘乐器，乐曲长）
  classic progressive albums
  progressive bands like Black Sabbath and the Edgar Broughton Band
  Example sentencesExamples
  This Toronto trio has left their mark on the scene with a unique style of improvised progressive breakbeat house, a sound driven by artistic ingenuity but upheld by talented instrumentation.
  With their eleventh release Canada's progressive minstrels have hunkered down and created their best since '93's Whale Music.
  Todd Rundgren, a 1970s progressive rock musician with a loyal fan base, has become one of the first musicians to master the Internet as a means of fostering sales.
  A whole lifestyle is suggested by this, home to tastefully decorated flats and progressive rock music.
  The band played progressive metal, a style mixing complex compositional structures and odd time signatures with the intensity of heavy metal.
  The band's style ranges from indie rock to progressive, with such influences as Radiohead, The Stone Roses, Led Zeppelin and The Frames.
  Von Frickle is an American quartet from Eureka, Illinois, but they proudly wear their British progressive rock influences on their sleeve.
  Among the most progressive songs is the title track, which opens the album as perhaps its strongest moment.
  She has been acclaimed for her organic and tribal sounds mixed in a progressive, techno-based style.
  The relaxed instrumentation elevates the insightful vocals, creating a sound best described as progressive garage rock.
  On the surface, they seem like one of those typical, progressive rock supergroup offshoots where each band member gets to show off their instrumental prowess.
  Lovers of the aging British rock band's art and progressive rock music were trying for days, but there simply weren't enough tickets for everyone.
  As dated as it all now sounds, Rare & Remixed nonetheless offers up some classic memories of the progressive movement's heyday.
  That moment, as well as anything, signifies the Japanese cut-and-paste master's arrival as a major force in the world of progressive pop music.
3Grammar
Denoting an aspect or tense of a verb that expresses an action in progress, e.g. am writing, was writing.
〔语法〕（动词时态）进行时的（如am writing，was writing）。亦称CONTINUOUS
Also called continuous
Example sentencesExamples
- Complaining and lobbying are progressive forms of verbs.
- Today we will talk about transitive and progressive tenses.
- The same can be said of his frequent use of progressive verbs (gerunds).
- One has to say, rather, I am writing a letter, with the progressive aspect.
- I mean, so what if I use stative verbs in the progressive form, or use Chinese language structure for my English in daily usage?
4(of a card game or dance) involving a series of sections for which participants successively change place or relative position.
（纸牌游戏，舞蹈）搭档轮换的
Example sentencesExamples
- At the progressive twenty-five card game in the Parish Hall on Tuesday, six people shared the top prize.
- I watched as the rest of the members of my class whirled around the Sport Hall in a progressive dance called the Oslo.
- It is a progressive 25 card game and it will be held in the Old School Community Centre and will commence at 9pm.
5technical Engaging in or constituting forward motion.
〈古〉向前进的
Synonyms
moving forwards, moving ahead, onward, advancing, progressing

noun prəˈɡrɛsɪvprəˈɡrɛsɪv

1An advocate of social reform.
people tend to present themselves either as progressives or traditionalists on this issue
Example sentencesExamples
- Sadly he failed to mention just which option said progressives should advocate.
- Yet there are still debates between traditionalists and progressives as to reforming the electoral process even further.
- Social surveillance, progressives argued, could and should enter the market to serve political ends.
- There is an economic and social dimension to the case for electoral reform that progressives often ignore.
- He's not going to kick out social conservatives if they agree with these principles any more than he'll kick out social progressives if they agree with these principles.
- Prior to the election, a loose coalition of social progressives was forming on council.
- He supported small business over large landowners and was a liberal progressive in his politics.
- It's a legislative issue, like other election reforms, and progressives should be leading the way.
- We liberals and progressives and leftists have our own noble principles, our own beautiful abstract words.
- If liberals, progressives, leftists and old-fashioned conservatives don't unite to stop him, he just might succeed.
- As our society places ever-increasing value on emotional maturity, progressives should expect social conservatives to respond with mounting cruelty and fanaticism.
- These are all causes progressives have been advocating for years!
- I'm a fiscal conservative and a social progressive.
- Labor leaders and social progressives were among the most outspoken opponents of the World War I draft.
- These men were the progressives and social reformers of their day.
- The reforms that progressives had introduced to improve learning were, for fundamentalists, part of the problem.
- This race has to be about basic questions of whether liberals and progressives can flourish in national politics.
- To me, this signifies that social progressives have, at last, conceded that they are a tiny minority of the Australian people.
- What's more, the most influential and most active progressives advocated labor legislation ‘for women and for women only.’
- The task of creating a democracy based on citizenship, diversity and solidarity is a far more difficult task, but one which social liberals and left-wing progressives in political and civil society need to take on.
Synonyms
innovator, reformer, reformist, liberal, libertarian, progressivist, progressionist, leftist, left-winger
2Grammar
A progressive tense or aspect.
〔语法〕进行时（或体）
the present progressive
现在进行时。
Example sentencesExamples
- If the progressive can only be used with imperfectives, why is it not possible to use the progressive with quintessential examples of stative predicates, such as be tall and know French?
- Again, this is clearly present progressive - it is what is happening right there and then he is referring to, not some habitual state of affairs.
- Have you ever read something that assiduously avoids all passives and progressives?
- It is still possible to mark habitual with a + Verb, just like the progressive.
3Printing
Each of a set of proofs of colour work, showing all the colours separately and the cumulative effect of overprinting them.
〔印刷〕分色打样，套色打样

Origin

Early 17th century: from French progressif, -ive or medieval Latin progressivus, from progress- ‘gone forward’, from the verb progredi (see progress).

Definition of progressive in US English:

progressive

adjectiveprəˈɡresivprəˈɡrɛsɪv

1Happening or developing gradually or in stages; proceeding step by step.
进步的，先进的；逐步的，渐次的
a progressive decline in popularity
逐渐下降的名望。
Example sentencesExamples
- In such a case, the disease could have affected your operated ear, gradually resulting in the progressive loss of hearing.
- At the same time one must observe the pattern of progressive deterioration here as well.
- The testing occurs in two stages, the first stage consisting of a progressive exertion test to measure endurance and a vertical leap test to measure explosive leg power.
- All in all there are four stages of progressive differentiation.
- These courses may assist you in developing a comprehensive and progressive training program for staff to help reduce some of the risks involved in boating.
- Aging is not a disease but a normal, gradual, and progressive decline that begins in the thirties when biological aging initiates cellular changes throughout the body.
- The Buddhist path is divided into three yanas, or vehicles, which represent levels or progressive stages of Buddhist teachings.
- Avoid rapid, bouncing movements, and instead emphasize a slow, gradual, and progressive stretch of each muscle.
- Aging does not have to mean a progressive decline in the quality of life, so extended good health is the new challenge in all societies today.
- To understand visualization practice, we have to understand something of the progressive stages of meditation.
- It is important to mention that the stages are not necessarily progressive but indicate the depth of pathological involvement.
- The two principal features of Bacon's new method were an emphasis on gradual, progressive inductions, and a method of exclusion.
- Once the brace is removed, treatment involves progressive strengthening, gradual return to running then sport-specific drills.
- One lesson a week will give a slow, but progressive development.
- Gradual, progressive resistance is a far more effective - and safe - way to increase muscle strength.
- Successive appeals chronicled the progressive decline and eventual closure of the practice.
- The typical model of cancer palliative care might not suit people who have a gradual, progressive decline with unpredictable exacerbations.
- Evidence emerged of progressive glass deterioration and raised concerns of possible parchment deterioration by hydrolysis.
- Your inability to climb well can be improved if you find the key limiter and incorporate an objective plan to improve your fitness in progressive stages.
- Three progressive stages of coding in the grounded theory method are open coding, axial coding, and selective coding.
Synonyms
continuing, continuous, increasing, growing, developing, ongoing, intensifying, accelerating, escalating
1. 1.1 (of a disease or ailment) increasing in severity or extent.
  （疾病等）进行性的，愈来愈严重的
  progressive liver failure
  进行性的肝衰退。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The second phase, referred to as the cardiopulmonary phase, is manifested by severe, rapidly progressive respiratory failure.
  Alzheimer's disease is a progressive disorder with a substantial impact on patients and their families.
  He has rapidly progressive HIV disease as shown by his high viral load.
  Once respiratory or renal disease develops, the course is usually rapidly progressive.
  Furthermore, heart failure is a progressive condition: once symptoms appear, subsequent morbidity and mortality are high.
  Chronic progressive weakness is the classic presentation in genetic and metabolic myopathies.
  While the disorder is not progressive, the levels of independent function often deteriorate once a child enters adolescence and adulthood.
  An elderly black woman was readmitted to the hospital from a nursing home because of progressive weakness.
  Multiple sclerosis is a progressive condition, which affects the nervous system, for which there is no cure.
  On her second hospital day she developed fever, tachycardia and tachypnea, progressive respiratory distress, and hypotension.
  The report also recommends that people with progressive conditions, including rheumatoid arthritis, should be covered from the time of diagnosis.
  I developed progressive MS late in life at age 46 after three years of very stressful work.
  Patients suffering from cholesterol emboli syndrome, a progressive disease unresponsive to therapy, may benefit from iloprost.
  In a progressive condition such as cystic fibrosis, it is difficult to disentangle the effects of age from those of disease severity.
  An addiction is a progressive disorder with mounting consequences with a genetic, biological heritage.
  Alzheimer's disease is a chronic, progressive dementia developing over months to years.
  He had been examined periodically in recent months because of progressive congestive heart failure and peripheral edema.
  It was a progressive condition that fed off itself, as well as people's fears about it.
  Obesity is also a progressive condition, unlike anorexia nervosa, which tends to ameliorate with age.
  In contrast, tumors and ototoxic medications produce slowly progressive unilateral or bilateral lesions.
2. 1.2 (of taxation or a tax) increasing as a proportion of the sum taxed as that sum increases.
  （税制，税种）累进的
  steeply progressive income taxes
  急遽累进的所得税。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Financing would come, most obviously, from the revival of steeply progressive taxation.
  He thinks a more progressive tax system would bolster public confidence.
  How effective has this progressive tax structure been?
  Income splitting between spouses helps reduce taxes overall because of progressive tax rates.
  He suggests using progressive taxation to reduce inequality.
  Redressing economic inequality through more progressive taxation of the rich is out.
  Everyone agrees that the fairest form of taxation is a progressive income tax: the more one earns, the more one pays.
  Other forms of progressive taxation, such as a tax on wealth, are common in other rich nations.
  This is a case in point to indicate that land-based property taxes are progressive.
  The drive to abolish the estate tax is just one part of a much broader attack on the progressive tax system.
  Federal income tax is progressive, but this only barely makes up for the regressive nature of state and local taxes.
  Income tax rates will not be increased and the progressive taxation system will be preserved.
  In Britain, income tax is a progressive tax, which is to say that the rich pay proportionately more than the poor.
  Income tax structures use standard per-person exemptions, progressive tax rates, and earned income credits.
  Real wages increased by 44 percent and there were other gains in the form of food subsidies, shorter working hours and social insurance, financed by steep progressive taxation.
  Sometimes I think it is useless to debate the economic effects of decisions on minimum wage, inheritance taxes, progressive taxation, etc.
  A nominally progressive tax structure to some degree retards the concentration over time of wealth among individuals.
  State lawmakers' enthusiasm for cutting progressive taxes caught up with them in 2002.
  A meaningful minimum wage, reinforced by progressive taxation on high earners, could be a start.
  Income taxes are progressive - that is to say, you pay a higher proportion of your income the more money you make.
2(of a group, person, or idea) favoring or implementing social reform or new, liberal ideas.
（团体，人，观念）支持（或推行）社会改良（或自由新思想）的；进步的
a relatively progressive governor
Example sentencesExamples
- She is a persuasive speaker who has mainstreamed progressive ideas without allowing them to be labeled as too liberal or left-wing.
- When our founding mothers and fathers wrote the Constitution, they took a major step forward in terms of progressive policies, by abolishing capital punishment.
- If we are not to use man-made poisons, the answer favoured by progressive gardeners is some kind of natural remedy.
- Each stands for the failure of grandiose but flawed social experiments, master plans drawn up by enlightened and progressive lovers of humanity in the abstract.
- There was a time when championing state sovereignty was a progressive idea because the advance of statehood helped destroy empires.
- I wish we had the luxury of choosing candidates purely on the basis of their commitment to a bottom-up revolution of the people and progressive ideas.
- Although a right-wing neo-conservative, he's quite progressive on social policy and this gives him a certain desirability.
- Instead, the task for progressive people of all complexions should be to improve ourselves as human beings and rehabilitate our national house simultaneously.
- We're going to be strong on security and we're going to be socially progressive.
- People have high expectations about Labor, the party of reform and progressive ideas.
- It was brought about by progressive ideas and by the desire for social change.
- I have a question for radical and progressive people in the West.
- As the church and aristocracy led an assault on the radical ideas coming from revolutionary France, Goya and his progressive friends found themselves under attack.
- The persecution of Christians was restrained by his progressive measures.
- The progressive beliefs and social justice we stand for, our core, must not be altered.
- I'm not enthused by the domestic agenda but I am very glad we have a radical and progressive leader on the international scene.
- New organizing concepts and progressive ideas emerged during this period and they became lynchpins to the solutions of pestilence and urban design problems.
- Do you think outspokenly progressive people are held to a standard that's not expected of others?
- Until very recently, most progressive people and organizations putting serious money into electoral work never considered spending on these terms.
- The progressive solution lies in developing a unified political movement of the working class, armed with a genuine socialist consciousness.
1. 2.1 Favoring or promoting change or innovation.
  崇尚（推进）变革（或革新）的
  a progressive art school
  英国最能代表革新的艺术学校。
  Example sentencesExamples
  It was a stable, hardworking and mutually profitable relationship in a changing, innovative and progressive period in the upgrading of the standard and facility of education in our schools.
  He did a number of innovative and progressive things with the staff at the Institute, and I was always amazed at his ability to remember everyone's name.
  Wood's restless energy and monumental ambition made him an innovator who adapted the progressive spirit of the age to military affairs.
  If the differences are important, we need to overcome them so as to develop a progressive vision of a possible future and a strategy to get there.
  Perhaps it was not the aesthetic itself but its complete break with the past that threatened the sensibilities - as progressive art will do.
  She also had a number of progressive medical views and was a pioneer of early rising after childbirth, a practice that is now universal.
  The quality of what is on offer is astonishing - high-tech design equipment, satellite feeds for language teaching, vigorous contemporary progressive teaching in the arts.
  The law was more than matched by popular literature and even progressive political movements.
  Kitesurfing is the world's fastest growing watersport with new innovations and progressive manoeuvres being discovered regularly.
  While at once forward-looking, a progressive movement is also well rooted in the historic tides of reform in America.
  One thing this election confirmed is that progressive politics can be winning politics.
  A progressive art teacher shakes up a stuffy private school in 50s America.
  The more progressive art magazines evinced little more interest in the subject of photography.
  The whole point of progressive politics is to stand with the most vulnerable people.
  As they receded in the late fifties and early sixties the political space in which to develop a progressive agenda expanded accordingly.
  His forward thinking, innovative and progressive methods of teaching, combined with his attention to detail of the core values of education, made him a wonderful asset to any school.
  The same has to happen here because while these developments are progressive and should be encouraged, they are still only piecemeal.
  An aging bus repair shop may seem an unlikely place for a progressive art school.
  Each new technical innovation has represented a progressive leap forward toward a better future.
  The women's rights movement alone is one of the greatest progressive leaps forward in human history.
  Synonyms
  modern, liberal, advanced, forward-looking, forward-thinking, go-ahead, enlightened, enterprising, innovative, up-and-coming, new, dynamic, avant-garde, modernistic, disruptive
2. 2.2 Relating to or denoting a style of rock music popular especially in the 1980s and characterized by classical influences, the use of keyboard instruments, and lengthy compositions.
  进步的（尤指流行于20世纪70年代的一种摇滚乐，深受古典主义影响，使用键盘乐器，乐曲长）
  Example sentencesExamples
  Among the most progressive songs is the title track, which opens the album as perhaps its strongest moment.
  With their eleventh release Canada's progressive minstrels have hunkered down and created their best since '93's Whale Music.
  That moment, as well as anything, signifies the Japanese cut-and-paste master's arrival as a major force in the world of progressive pop music.
  The relaxed instrumentation elevates the insightful vocals, creating a sound best described as progressive garage rock.
  Von Frickle is an American quartet from Eureka, Illinois, but they proudly wear their British progressive rock influences on their sleeve.
  On the surface, they seem like one of those typical, progressive rock supergroup offshoots where each band member gets to show off their instrumental prowess.
  The band played progressive metal, a style mixing complex compositional structures and odd time signatures with the intensity of heavy metal.
  Lovers of the aging British rock band's art and progressive rock music were trying for days, but there simply weren't enough tickets for everyone.
  A whole lifestyle is suggested by this, home to tastefully decorated flats and progressive rock music.
  This Toronto trio has left their mark on the scene with a unique style of improvised progressive breakbeat house, a sound driven by artistic ingenuity but upheld by talented instrumentation.
  The band's style ranges from indie rock to progressive, with such influences as Radiohead, The Stone Roses, Led Zeppelin and The Frames.
  Todd Rundgren, a 1970s progressive rock musician with a loyal fan base, has become one of the first musicians to master the Internet as a means of fostering sales.
  As dated as it all now sounds, Rare & Remixed nonetheless offers up some classic memories of the progressive movement's heyday.
  She has been acclaimed for her organic and tribal sounds mixed in a progressive, techno-based style.
3Grammar
Denoting an aspect or tense of a verb that expresses an action in progress, e.g. am writing, was writing.
〔语法〕（动词时态）进行时的（如am writing，was writing）。亦称CONTINUOUS
Also called continuous
Example sentencesExamples
- I mean, so what if I use stative verbs in the progressive form, or use Chinese language structure for my English in daily usage?
- Today we will talk about transitive and progressive tenses.
- One has to say, rather, I am writing a letter, with the progressive aspect.
- Complaining and lobbying are progressive forms of verbs.
- The same can be said of his frequent use of progressive verbs (gerunds).
4(of a card game or dance) involving a series of sections for which participants successively change place or relative position.
（纸牌游戏，舞蹈）搭档轮换的
Example sentencesExamples
- It is a progressive 25 card game and it will be held in the Old School Community Centre and will commence at 9pm.
- At the progressive twenty-five card game in the Parish Hall on Tuesday, six people shared the top prize.
- I watched as the rest of the members of my class whirled around the Sport Hall in a progressive dance called the Oslo.
5technical Engaging in or constituting forward motion.
〈古〉向前进的
Synonyms
moving forwards, moving ahead, onward, advancing, progressing

nounprəˈɡresivprəˈɡrɛsɪv

1A person advocating or implementing social reform or new, liberal ideas.
（团体，人，观念）支持（或推行）社会改良（或自由新思想）的；进步的
Example sentencesExamples
- We liberals and progressives and leftists have our own noble principles, our own beautiful abstract words.
- Yet there are still debates between traditionalists and progressives as to reforming the electoral process even further.
- To me, this signifies that social progressives have, at last, conceded that they are a tiny minority of the Australian people.
- If liberals, progressives, leftists and old-fashioned conservatives don't unite to stop him, he just might succeed.
- What's more, the most influential and most active progressives advocated labor legislation ‘for women and for women only.’
- Social surveillance, progressives argued, could and should enter the market to serve political ends.
- It's a legislative issue, like other election reforms, and progressives should be leading the way.
- The reforms that progressives had introduced to improve learning were, for fundamentalists, part of the problem.
- He supported small business over large landowners and was a liberal progressive in his politics.
- This race has to be about basic questions of whether liberals and progressives can flourish in national politics.
- I'm a fiscal conservative and a social progressive.
- These are all causes progressives have been advocating for years!
- Sadly he failed to mention just which option said progressives should advocate.
- He's not going to kick out social conservatives if they agree with these principles any more than he'll kick out social progressives if they agree with these principles.
- As our society places ever-increasing value on emotional maturity, progressives should expect social conservatives to respond with mounting cruelty and fanaticism.
- There is an economic and social dimension to the case for electoral reform that progressives often ignore.
- Prior to the election, a loose coalition of social progressives was forming on council.
- Labor leaders and social progressives were among the most outspoken opponents of the World War I draft.
- The task of creating a democracy based on citizenship, diversity and solidarity is a far more difficult task, but one which social liberals and left-wing progressives in political and civil society need to take on.
- These men were the progressives and social reformers of their day.
Synonyms
innovator, reformer, reformist, liberal, libertarian, progressivist, progressionist, leftist, left-winger
2Grammar
A progressive tense or aspect.
〔语法〕进行时（或体）
the present progressive
现在进行时。
Example sentencesExamples
- If the progressive can only be used with imperfectives, why is it not possible to use the progressive with quintessential examples of stative predicates, such as be tall and know French?
- It is still possible to mark habitual with a + Verb, just like the progressive.
- Again, this is clearly present progressive - it is what is happening right there and then he is referring to, not some habitual state of affairs.
- Have you ever read something that assiduously avoids all passives and progressives?
3Printing
Each of a set of proofs of color work, showing all the colors separately and the cumulative effect of overprinting them.
〔印刷〕分色打样，套色打样

Origin

Early 17th century: from French progressif, -ive or medieval Latin progressivus, from progress- ‘gone forward’, from the verb progredi (see progress).

单词	progressive
释义	Definition of progressive in English: progressive adjective prəˈɡrɛsɪvprəˈɡrɛsɪv 1Happening or developing gradually or in stages. 进步的，先进的；逐步的，渐次的 a progressive decline in popularity 逐渐下降的名望。 Example sentencesExamples The Buddhist path is divided into three yanas, or vehicles, which represent levels or progressive stages of Buddhist teachings. Aging is not a disease but a normal, gradual, and progressive decline that begins in the thirties when biological aging initiates cellular changes throughout the body. To understand visualization practice, we have to understand something of the progressive stages of meditation. All in all there are four stages of progressive differentiation. It is important to mention that the stages are not necessarily progressive but indicate the depth of pathological involvement. Evidence emerged of progressive glass deterioration and raised concerns of possible parchment deterioration by hydrolysis. The two principal features of Bacon's new method were an emphasis on gradual, progressive inductions, and a method of exclusion. Three progressive stages of coding in the grounded theory method are open coding, axial coding, and selective coding. Gradual, progressive resistance is a far more effective - and safe - way to increase muscle strength. Aging does not have to mean a progressive decline in the quality of life, so extended good health is the new challenge in all societies today. One lesson a week will give a slow, but progressive development. At the same time one must observe the pattern of progressive deterioration here as well. The testing occurs in two stages, the first stage consisting of a progressive exertion test to measure endurance and a vertical leap test to measure explosive leg power. Avoid rapid, bouncing movements, and instead emphasize a slow, gradual, and progressive stretch of each muscle. Your inability to climb well can be improved if you find the key limiter and incorporate an objective plan to improve your fitness in progressive stages. Once the brace is removed, treatment involves progressive strengthening, gradual return to running then sport-specific drills. Successive appeals chronicled the progressive decline and eventual closure of the practice. The typical model of cancer palliative care might not suit people who have a gradual, progressive decline with unpredictable exacerbations. In such a case, the disease could have affected your operated ear, gradually resulting in the progressive loss of hearing. These courses may assist you in developing a comprehensive and progressive training program for staff to help reduce some of the risks involved in boating. Synonyms continuing, continuous, increasing, growing, developing, ongoing, intensifying, accelerating, escalating 1.1 (of a medical condition) increasing in severity. （疾病等）进行性的，愈来愈严重的 progressive liver failure 进行性的肝衰退。 Example sentencesExamples Alzheimer's disease is a chronic, progressive dementia developing over months to years. He had been examined periodically in recent months because of progressive congestive heart failure and peripheral edema. The report also recommends that people with progressive conditions, including rheumatoid arthritis, should be covered from the time of diagnosis. In contrast, tumors and ototoxic medications produce slowly progressive unilateral or bilateral lesions. An elderly black woman was readmitted to the hospital from a nursing home because of progressive weakness. Chronic progressive weakness is the classic presentation in genetic and metabolic myopathies. While the disorder is not progressive, the levels of independent function often deteriorate once a child enters adolescence and adulthood. It was a progressive condition that fed off itself, as well as people's fears about it. Once respiratory or renal disease develops, the course is usually rapidly progressive. An addiction is a progressive disorder with mounting consequences with a genetic, biological heritage. Obesity is also a progressive condition, unlike anorexia nervosa, which tends to ameliorate with age. He has rapidly progressive HIV disease as shown by his high viral load. Patients suffering from cholesterol emboli syndrome, a progressive disease unresponsive to therapy, may benefit from iloprost. The second phase, referred to as the cardiopulmonary phase, is manifested by severe, rapidly progressive respiratory failure. Furthermore, heart failure is a progressive condition: once symptoms appear, subsequent morbidity and mortality are high. Alzheimer's disease is a progressive disorder with a substantial impact on patients and their families. Multiple sclerosis is a progressive condition, which affects the nervous system, for which there is no cure. In a progressive condition such as cystic fibrosis, it is difficult to disentangle the effects of age from those of disease severity. On her second hospital day she developed fever, tachycardia and tachypnea, progressive respiratory distress, and hypotension. I developed progressive MS late in life at age 46 after three years of very stressful work. 1.2 (of taxation or a tax) increasing as a proportion of the sum taxed as that sum increases. （税制，税种）累进的 steeply progressive income taxes 急遽累进的所得税。 Example sentencesExamples Redressing economic inequality through more progressive taxation of the rich is out. Real wages increased by 44 percent and there were other gains in the form of food subsidies, shorter working hours and social insurance, financed by steep progressive taxation. Everyone agrees that the fairest form of taxation is a progressive income tax: the more one earns, the more one pays. Financing would come, most obviously, from the revival of steeply progressive taxation. He suggests using progressive taxation to reduce inequality. Income tax structures use standard per-person exemptions, progressive tax rates, and earned income credits. He thinks a more progressive tax system would bolster public confidence. This is a case in point to indicate that land-based property taxes are progressive. The drive to abolish the estate tax is just one part of a much broader attack on the progressive tax system. Sometimes I think it is useless to debate the economic effects of decisions on minimum wage, inheritance taxes, progressive taxation, etc. A nominally progressive tax structure to some degree retards the concentration over time of wealth among individuals. Other forms of progressive taxation, such as a tax on wealth, are common in other rich nations. Income tax rates will not be increased and the progressive taxation system will be preserved. Federal income tax is progressive, but this only barely makes up for the regressive nature of state and local taxes. How effective has this progressive tax structure been? Income splitting between spouses helps reduce taxes overall because of progressive tax rates. A meaningful minimum wage, reinforced by progressive taxation on high earners, could be a start. Income taxes are progressive - that is to say, you pay a higher proportion of your income the more money you make. State lawmakers' enthusiasm for cutting progressive taxes caught up with them in 2002. In Britain, income tax is a progressive tax, which is to say that the rich pay proportionately more than the poor. 2(of a person or idea) favouring social reform. a relatively progressive Minister of Education 思想相对进步的教育部部长。 Example sentencesExamples Until very recently, most progressive people and organizations putting serious money into electoral work never considered spending on these terms. The persecution of Christians was restrained by his progressive measures. I have a question for radical and progressive people in the West. She is a persuasive speaker who has mainstreamed progressive ideas without allowing them to be labeled as too liberal or left-wing. As the church and aristocracy led an assault on the radical ideas coming from revolutionary France, Goya and his progressive friends found themselves under attack. People have high expectations about Labor, the party of reform and progressive ideas. Instead, the task for progressive people of all complexions should be to improve ourselves as human beings and rehabilitate our national house simultaneously. New organizing concepts and progressive ideas emerged during this period and they became lynchpins to the solutions of pestilence and urban design problems. The progressive beliefs and social justice we stand for, our core, must not be altered. Do you think outspokenly progressive people are held to a standard that's not expected of others? It was brought about by progressive ideas and by the desire for social change. If we are not to use man-made poisons, the answer favoured by progressive gardeners is some kind of natural remedy. I wish we had the luxury of choosing candidates purely on the basis of their commitment to a bottom-up revolution of the people and progressive ideas. Although a right-wing neo-conservative, he's quite progressive on social policy and this gives him a certain desirability. There was a time when championing state sovereignty was a progressive idea because the advance of statehood helped destroy empires. We're going to be strong on security and we're going to be socially progressive. Each stands for the failure of grandiose but flawed social experiments, master plans drawn up by enlightened and progressive lovers of humanity in the abstract. I'm not enthused by the domestic agenda but I am very glad we have a radical and progressive leader on the international scene. When our founding mothers and fathers wrote the Constitution, they took a major step forward in terms of progressive policies, by abolishing capital punishment. The progressive solution lies in developing a unified political movement of the working class, armed with a genuine socialist consciousness. 2.1 Favouring change or innovation. 崇尚（推进）变革（或革新）的 the most progressive art school in Britain 英国最能代表革新的艺术学校。 Example sentencesExamples One thing this election confirmed is that progressive politics can be winning politics. Kitesurfing is the world's fastest growing watersport with new innovations and progressive manoeuvres being discovered regularly. His forward thinking, innovative and progressive methods of teaching, combined with his attention to detail of the core values of education, made him a wonderful asset to any school. The whole point of progressive politics is to stand with the most vulnerable people. As they receded in the late fifties and early sixties the political space in which to develop a progressive agenda expanded accordingly. While at once forward-looking, a progressive movement is also well rooted in the historic tides of reform in America. A progressive art teacher shakes up a stuffy private school in 50s America. If the differences are important, we need to overcome them so as to develop a progressive vision of a possible future and a strategy to get there. He did a number of innovative and progressive things with the staff at the Institute, and I was always amazed at his ability to remember everyone's name. The same has to happen here because while these developments are progressive and should be encouraged, they are still only piecemeal. An aging bus repair shop may seem an unlikely place for a progressive art school. Perhaps it was not the aesthetic itself but its complete break with the past that threatened the sensibilities - as progressive art will do. She also had a number of progressive medical views and was a pioneer of early rising after childbirth, a practice that is now universal. The more progressive art magazines evinced little more interest in the subject of photography. The law was more than matched by popular literature and even progressive political movements. Each new technical innovation has represented a progressive leap forward toward a better future. It was a stable, hardworking and mutually profitable relationship in a changing, innovative and progressive period in the upgrading of the standard and facility of education in our schools. The quality of what is on offer is astonishing - high-tech design equipment, satellite feeds for language teaching, vigorous contemporary progressive teaching in the arts. Wood's restless energy and monumental ambition made him an innovator who adapted the progressive spirit of the age to military affairs. The women's rights movement alone is one of the greatest progressive leaps forward in human history. Synonyms modern, liberal, advanced, forward-looking, forward-thinking, go-ahead, enlightened, enterprising, innovative, up-and-coming, new, dynamic, avant-garde, modernistic, disruptive 2.2 Relating to or denoting a style of rock music popular especially in the 1970s and characterized by classical influences, the use of keyboard instruments, and lengthy compositions. 进步的（尤指流行于20世纪70年代的一种摇滚乐，深受古典主义影响，使用键盘乐器，乐曲长） classic progressive albums progressive bands like Black Sabbath and the Edgar Broughton Band Example sentencesExamples This Toronto trio has left their mark on the scene with a unique style of improvised progressive breakbeat house, a sound driven by artistic ingenuity but upheld by talented instrumentation. With their eleventh release Canada's progressive minstrels have hunkered down and created their best since '93's Whale Music. Todd Rundgren, a 1970s progressive rock musician with a loyal fan base, has become one of the first musicians to master the Internet as a means of fostering sales. A whole lifestyle is suggested by this, home to tastefully decorated flats and progressive rock music. The band played progressive metal, a style mixing complex compositional structures and odd time signatures with the intensity of heavy metal. The band's style ranges from indie rock to progressive, with such influences as Radiohead, The Stone Roses, Led Zeppelin and The Frames. Von Frickle is an American quartet from Eureka, Illinois, but they proudly wear their British progressive rock influences on their sleeve. Among the most progressive songs is the title track, which opens the album as perhaps its strongest moment. She has been acclaimed for her organic and tribal sounds mixed in a progressive, techno-based style. The relaxed instrumentation elevates the insightful vocals, creating a sound best described as progressive garage rock. On the surface, they seem like one of those typical, progressive rock supergroup offshoots where each band member gets to show off their instrumental prowess. Lovers of the aging British rock band's art and progressive rock music were trying for days, but there simply weren't enough tickets for everyone. As dated as it all now sounds, Rare & Remixed nonetheless offers up some classic memories of the progressive movement's heyday. That moment, as well as anything, signifies the Japanese cut-and-paste master's arrival as a major force in the world of progressive pop music. 3Grammar Denoting an aspect or tense of a verb that expresses an action in progress, e.g. am writing, was writing. 〔语法〕（动词时态）进行时的（如am writing，was writing）。亦称CONTINUOUS Also called continuous Example sentencesExamples Complaining and lobbying are progressive forms of verbs. Today we will talk about transitive and progressive tenses. The same can be said of his frequent use of progressive verbs (gerunds). One has to say, rather, I am writing a letter, with the progressive aspect. I mean, so what if I use stative verbs in the progressive form, or use Chinese language structure for my English in daily usage? 4(of a card game or dance) involving a series of sections for which participants successively change place or relative position. （纸牌游戏，舞蹈）搭档轮换的 Example sentencesExamples At the progressive twenty-five card game in the Parish Hall on Tuesday, six people shared the top prize. I watched as the rest of the members of my class whirled around the Sport Hall in a progressive dance called the Oslo. It is a progressive 25 card game and it will be held in the Old School Community Centre and will commence at 9pm. 5technical Engaging in or constituting forward motion. 〈古〉向前进的 Synonyms moving forwards, moving ahead, onward, advancing, progressing noun prəˈɡrɛsɪvprəˈɡrɛsɪv 1An advocate of social reform. people tend to present themselves either as progressives or traditionalists on this issue Example sentencesExamples Sadly he failed to mention just which option said progressives should advocate. Yet there are still debates between traditionalists and progressives as to reforming the electoral process even further. Social surveillance, progressives argued, could and should enter the market to serve political ends. There is an economic and social dimension to the case for electoral reform that progressives often ignore. He's not going to kick out social conservatives if they agree with these principles any more than he'll kick out social progressives if they agree with these principles. Prior to the election, a loose coalition of social progressives was forming on council. He supported small business over large landowners and was a liberal progressive in his politics. It's a legislative issue, like other election reforms, and progressives should be leading the way. We liberals and progressives and leftists have our own noble principles, our own beautiful abstract words. If liberals, progressives, leftists and old-fashioned conservatives don't unite to stop him, he just might succeed. As our society places ever-increasing value on emotional maturity, progressives should expect social conservatives to respond with mounting cruelty and fanaticism. These are all causes progressives have been advocating for years! I'm a fiscal conservative and a social progressive. Labor leaders and social progressives were among the most outspoken opponents of the World War I draft. These men were the progressives and social reformers of their day. The reforms that progressives had introduced to improve learning were, for fundamentalists, part of the problem. This race has to be about basic questions of whether liberals and progressives can flourish in national politics. To me, this signifies that social progressives have, at last, conceded that they are a tiny minority of the Australian people. What's more, the most influential and most active progressives advocated labor legislation ‘for women and for women only.’ The task of creating a democracy based on citizenship, diversity and solidarity is a far more difficult task, but one which social liberals and left-wing progressives in political and civil society need to take on. Synonyms innovator, reformer, reformist, liberal, libertarian, progressivist, progressionist, leftist, left-winger 2Grammar A progressive tense or aspect. 〔语法〕进行时（或体） the present progressive 现在进行时。 Example sentencesExamples If the progressive can only be used with imperfectives, why is it not possible to use the progressive with quintessential examples of stative predicates, such as be tall and know French? Again, this is clearly present progressive - it is what is happening right there and then he is referring to, not some habitual state of affairs. Have you ever read something that assiduously avoids all passives and progressives? It is still possible to mark habitual with a + Verb, just like the progressive. 3Printing Each of a set of proofs of colour work, showing all the colours separately and the cumulative effect of overprinting them. 〔印刷〕分色打样，套色打样 Origin Early 17th century: from French progressif, -ive or medieval Latin progressivus, from progress- ‘gone forward’, from the verb progredi (see progress). Definition of progressive in US English: progressive adjectiveprəˈɡresivprəˈɡrɛsɪv 1Happening or developing gradually or in stages; proceeding step by step. 进步的，先进的；逐步的，渐次的 a progressive decline in popularity 逐渐下降的名望。 Example sentencesExamples In such a case, the disease could have affected your operated ear, gradually resulting in the progressive loss of hearing. At the same time one must observe the pattern of progressive deterioration here as well. The testing occurs in two stages, the first stage consisting of a progressive exertion test to measure endurance and a vertical leap test to measure explosive leg power. All in all there are four stages of progressive differentiation. These courses may assist you in developing a comprehensive and progressive training program for staff to help reduce some of the risks involved in boating. Aging is not a disease but a normal, gradual, and progressive decline that begins in the thirties when biological aging initiates cellular changes throughout the body. The Buddhist path is divided into three yanas, or vehicles, which represent levels or progressive stages of Buddhist teachings. Avoid rapid, bouncing movements, and instead emphasize a slow, gradual, and progressive stretch of each muscle. Aging does not have to mean a progressive decline in the quality of life, so extended good health is the new challenge in all societies today. To understand visualization practice, we have to understand something of the progressive stages of meditation. It is important to mention that the stages are not necessarily progressive but indicate the depth of pathological involvement. The two principal features of Bacon's new method were an emphasis on gradual, progressive inductions, and a method of exclusion. Once the brace is removed, treatment involves progressive strengthening, gradual return to running then sport-specific drills. One lesson a week will give a slow, but progressive development. Gradual, progressive resistance is a far more effective - and safe - way to increase muscle strength. Successive appeals chronicled the progressive decline and eventual closure of the practice. The typical model of cancer palliative care might not suit people who have a gradual, progressive decline with unpredictable exacerbations. Evidence emerged of progressive glass deterioration and raised concerns of possible parchment deterioration by hydrolysis. Your inability to climb well can be improved if you find the key limiter and incorporate an objective plan to improve your fitness in progressive stages. Three progressive stages of coding in the grounded theory method are open coding, axial coding, and selective coding. Synonyms continuing, continuous, increasing, growing, developing, ongoing, intensifying, accelerating, escalating 1.1 (of a disease or ailment) increasing in severity or extent. （疾病等）进行性的，愈来愈严重的 progressive liver failure 进行性的肝衰退。 Example sentencesExamples The second phase, referred to as the cardiopulmonary phase, is manifested by severe, rapidly progressive respiratory failure. Alzheimer's disease is a progressive disorder with a substantial impact on patients and their families. He has rapidly progressive HIV disease as shown by his high viral load. Once respiratory or renal disease develops, the course is usually rapidly progressive. Furthermore, heart failure is a progressive condition: once symptoms appear, subsequent morbidity and mortality are high. Chronic progressive weakness is the classic presentation in genetic and metabolic myopathies. While the disorder is not progressive, the levels of independent function often deteriorate once a child enters adolescence and adulthood. An elderly black woman was readmitted to the hospital from a nursing home because of progressive weakness. Multiple sclerosis is a progressive condition, which affects the nervous system, for which there is no cure. On her second hospital day she developed fever, tachycardia and tachypnea, progressive respiratory distress, and hypotension. The report also recommends that people with progressive conditions, including rheumatoid arthritis, should be covered from the time of diagnosis. I developed progressive MS late in life at age 46 after three years of very stressful work. Patients suffering from cholesterol emboli syndrome, a progressive disease unresponsive to therapy, may benefit from iloprost. In a progressive condition such as cystic fibrosis, it is difficult to disentangle the effects of age from those of disease severity. An addiction is a progressive disorder with mounting consequences with a genetic, biological heritage. Alzheimer's disease is a chronic, progressive dementia developing over months to years. He had been examined periodically in recent months because of progressive congestive heart failure and peripheral edema. It was a progressive condition that fed off itself, as well as people's fears about it. Obesity is also a progressive condition, unlike anorexia nervosa, which tends to ameliorate with age. In contrast, tumors and ototoxic medications produce slowly progressive unilateral or bilateral lesions. 1.2 (of taxation or a tax) increasing as a proportion of the sum taxed as that sum increases. （税制，税种）累进的 steeply progressive income taxes 急遽累进的所得税。 Example sentencesExamples Financing would come, most obviously, from the revival of steeply progressive taxation. He thinks a more progressive tax system would bolster public confidence. How effective has this progressive tax structure been? Income splitting between spouses helps reduce taxes overall because of progressive tax rates. He suggests using progressive taxation to reduce inequality. Redressing economic inequality through more progressive taxation of the rich is out. Everyone agrees that the fairest form of taxation is a progressive income tax: the more one earns, the more one pays. Other forms of progressive taxation, such as a tax on wealth, are common in other rich nations. This is a case in point to indicate that land-based property taxes are progressive. The drive to abolish the estate tax is just one part of a much broader attack on the progressive tax system. Federal income tax is progressive, but this only barely makes up for the regressive nature of state and local taxes. Income tax rates will not be increased and the progressive taxation system will be preserved. In Britain, income tax is a progressive tax, which is to say that the rich pay proportionately more than the poor. Income tax structures use standard per-person exemptions, progressive tax rates, and earned income credits. Real wages increased by 44 percent and there were other gains in the form of food subsidies, shorter working hours and social insurance, financed by steep progressive taxation. Sometimes I think it is useless to debate the economic effects of decisions on minimum wage, inheritance taxes, progressive taxation, etc. A nominally progressive tax structure to some degree retards the concentration over time of wealth among individuals. State lawmakers' enthusiasm for cutting progressive taxes caught up with them in 2002. A meaningful minimum wage, reinforced by progressive taxation on high earners, could be a start. Income taxes are progressive - that is to say, you pay a higher proportion of your income the more money you make. 2(of a group, person, or idea) favoring or implementing social reform or new, liberal ideas. （团体，人，观念）支持（或推行）社会改良（或自由新思想）的；进步的 a relatively progressive governor Example sentencesExamples She is a persuasive speaker who has mainstreamed progressive ideas without allowing them to be labeled as too liberal or left-wing. When our founding mothers and fathers wrote the Constitution, they took a major step forward in terms of progressive policies, by abolishing capital punishment. If we are not to use man-made poisons, the answer favoured by progressive gardeners is some kind of natural remedy. Each stands for the failure of grandiose but flawed social experiments, master plans drawn up by enlightened and progressive lovers of humanity in the abstract. There was a time when championing state sovereignty was a progressive idea because the advance of statehood helped destroy empires. I wish we had the luxury of choosing candidates purely on the basis of their commitment to a bottom-up revolution of the people and progressive ideas. Although a right-wing neo-conservative, he's quite progressive on social policy and this gives him a certain desirability. Instead, the task for progressive people of all complexions should be to improve ourselves as human beings and rehabilitate our national house simultaneously. We're going to be strong on security and we're going to be socially progressive. People have high expectations about Labor, the party of reform and progressive ideas. It was brought about by progressive ideas and by the desire for social change. I have a question for radical and progressive people in the West. As the church and aristocracy led an assault on the radical ideas coming from revolutionary France, Goya and his progressive friends found themselves under attack. The persecution of Christians was restrained by his progressive measures. The progressive beliefs and social justice we stand for, our core, must not be altered. I'm not enthused by the domestic agenda but I am very glad we have a radical and progressive leader on the international scene. New organizing concepts and progressive ideas emerged during this period and they became lynchpins to the solutions of pestilence and urban design problems. Do you think outspokenly progressive people are held to a standard that's not expected of others? Until very recently, most progressive people and organizations putting serious money into electoral work never considered spending on these terms. The progressive solution lies in developing a unified political movement of the working class, armed with a genuine socialist consciousness. 2.1 Favoring or promoting change or innovation. 崇尚（推进）变革（或革新）的 a progressive art school 英国最能代表革新的艺术学校。 Example sentencesExamples It was a stable, hardworking and mutually profitable relationship in a changing, innovative and progressive period in the upgrading of the standard and facility of education in our schools. He did a number of innovative and progressive things with the staff at the Institute, and I was always amazed at his ability to remember everyone's name. Wood's restless energy and monumental ambition made him an innovator who adapted the progressive spirit of the age to military affairs. If the differences are important, we need to overcome them so as to develop a progressive vision of a possible future and a strategy to get there. Perhaps it was not the aesthetic itself but its complete break with the past that threatened the sensibilities - as progressive art will do. She also had a number of progressive medical views and was a pioneer of early rising after childbirth, a practice that is now universal. The quality of what is on offer is astonishing - high-tech design equipment, satellite feeds for language teaching, vigorous contemporary progressive teaching in the arts. The law was more than matched by popular literature and even progressive political movements. Kitesurfing is the world's fastest growing watersport with new innovations and progressive manoeuvres being discovered regularly. While at once forward-looking, a progressive movement is also well rooted in the historic tides of reform in America. One thing this election confirmed is that progressive politics can be winning politics. A progressive art teacher shakes up a stuffy private school in 50s America. The more progressive art magazines evinced little more interest in the subject of photography. The whole point of progressive politics is to stand with the most vulnerable people. As they receded in the late fifties and early sixties the political space in which to develop a progressive agenda expanded accordingly. His forward thinking, innovative and progressive methods of teaching, combined with his attention to detail of the core values of education, made him a wonderful asset to any school. The same has to happen here because while these developments are progressive and should be encouraged, they are still only piecemeal. An aging bus repair shop may seem an unlikely place for a progressive art school. Each new technical innovation has represented a progressive leap forward toward a better future. The women's rights movement alone is one of the greatest progressive leaps forward in human history. Synonyms modern, liberal, advanced, forward-looking, forward-thinking, go-ahead, enlightened, enterprising, innovative, up-and-coming, new, dynamic, avant-garde, modernistic, disruptive 2.2 Relating to or denoting a style of rock music popular especially in the 1980s and characterized by classical influences, the use of keyboard instruments, and lengthy compositions. 进步的（尤指流行于20世纪70年代的一种摇滚乐，深受古典主义影响，使用键盘乐器，乐曲长） Example sentencesExamples Among the most progressive songs is the title track, which opens the album as perhaps its strongest moment. With their eleventh release Canada's progressive minstrels have hunkered down and created their best since '93's Whale Music. That moment, as well as anything, signifies the Japanese cut-and-paste master's arrival as a major force in the world of progressive pop music. The relaxed instrumentation elevates the insightful vocals, creating a sound best described as progressive garage rock. Von Frickle is an American quartet from Eureka, Illinois, but they proudly wear their British progressive rock influences on their sleeve. On the surface, they seem like one of those typical, progressive rock supergroup offshoots where each band member gets to show off their instrumental prowess. The band played progressive metal, a style mixing complex compositional structures and odd time signatures with the intensity of heavy metal. Lovers of the aging British rock band's art and progressive rock music were trying for days, but there simply weren't enough tickets for everyone. A whole lifestyle is suggested by this, home to tastefully decorated flats and progressive rock music. This Toronto trio has left their mark on the scene with a unique style of improvised progressive breakbeat house, a sound driven by artistic ingenuity but upheld by talented instrumentation. The band's style ranges from indie rock to progressive, with such influences as Radiohead, The Stone Roses, Led Zeppelin and The Frames. Todd Rundgren, a 1970s progressive rock musician with a loyal fan base, has become one of the first musicians to master the Internet as a means of fostering sales. As dated as it all now sounds, Rare & Remixed nonetheless offers up some classic memories of the progressive movement's heyday. She has been acclaimed for her organic and tribal sounds mixed in a progressive, techno-based style. 3Grammar Denoting an aspect or tense of a verb that expresses an action in progress, e.g. am writing, was writing. 〔语法〕（动词时态）进行时的（如am writing，was writing）。亦称CONTINUOUS Also called continuous Example sentencesExamples I mean, so what if I use stative verbs in the progressive form, or use Chinese language structure for my English in daily usage? Today we will talk about transitive and progressive tenses. One has to say, rather, I am writing a letter, with the progressive aspect. Complaining and lobbying are progressive forms of verbs. The same can be said of his frequent use of progressive verbs (gerunds). 4(of a card game or dance) involving a series of sections for which participants successively change place or relative position. （纸牌游戏，舞蹈）搭档轮换的 Example sentencesExamples It is a progressive 25 card game and it will be held in the Old School Community Centre and will commence at 9pm. At the progressive twenty-five card game in the Parish Hall on Tuesday, six people shared the top prize. I watched as the rest of the members of my class whirled around the Sport Hall in a progressive dance called the Oslo. 5technical Engaging in or constituting forward motion. 〈古〉向前进的 Synonyms moving forwards, moving ahead, onward, advancing, progressing nounprəˈɡresivprəˈɡrɛsɪv 1A person advocating or implementing social reform or new, liberal ideas. （团体，人，观念）支持（或推行）社会改良（或自由新思想）的；进步的 Example sentencesExamples We liberals and progressives and leftists have our own noble principles, our own beautiful abstract words. Yet there are still debates between traditionalists and progressives as to reforming the electoral process even further. To me, this signifies that social progressives have, at last, conceded that they are a tiny minority of the Australian people. If liberals, progressives, leftists and old-fashioned conservatives don't unite to stop him, he just might succeed. What's more, the most influential and most active progressives advocated labor legislation ‘for women and for women only.’ Social surveillance, progressives argued, could and should enter the market to serve political ends. It's a legislative issue, like other election reforms, and progressives should be leading the way. The reforms that progressives had introduced to improve learning were, for fundamentalists, part of the problem. He supported small business over large landowners and was a liberal progressive in his politics. This race has to be about basic questions of whether liberals and progressives can flourish in national politics. I'm a fiscal conservative and a social progressive. These are all causes progressives have been advocating for years! Sadly he failed to mention just which option said progressives should advocate. He's not going to kick out social conservatives if they agree with these principles any more than he'll kick out social progressives if they agree with these principles. As our society places ever-increasing value on emotional maturity, progressives should expect social conservatives to respond with mounting cruelty and fanaticism. There is an economic and social dimension to the case for electoral reform that progressives often ignore. Prior to the election, a loose coalition of social progressives was forming on council. Labor leaders and social progressives were among the most outspoken opponents of the World War I draft. The task of creating a democracy based on citizenship, diversity and solidarity is a far more difficult task, but one which social liberals and left-wing progressives in political and civil society need to take on. These men were the progressives and social reformers of their day. Synonyms innovator, reformer, reformist, liberal, libertarian, progressivist, progressionist, leftist, left-winger 2Grammar A progressive tense or aspect. 〔语法〕进行时（或体） the present progressive 现在进行时。 Example sentencesExamples If the progressive can only be used with imperfectives, why is it not possible to use the progressive with quintessential examples of stative predicates, such as be tall and know French? It is still possible to mark habitual with a + Verb, just like the progressive. Again, this is clearly present progressive - it is what is happening right there and then he is referring to, not some habitual state of affairs. Have you ever read something that assiduously avoids all passives and progressives? 3Printing Each of a set of proofs of color work, showing all the colors separately and the cumulative effect of overprinting them. 〔印刷〕分色打样，套色打样 Origin Early 17th century: from French progressif, -ive or medieval Latin progressivus, from progress- ‘gone forward’, from the verb progredi (see progress).
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