- 1年紀漸長；年事漸高（多見於 advancing years / advancing age）
Advancing, in this use, is the fact of growing older. We most often meet it in set phrases: advancing years, advancing age, with advancing age. It is a gentle, slightly formal way of talking about getting old, without saying “old” outright. Doctors, writers, and polite speakers use it. Though actually, the same form advancing is also the ordinary -ing form of advance — an army advancing, technology advancing. This entry is only the “growing older” meaning.
From the word’s history
From Middle English avauncen, from Anglo-Norman avancier, from Late Latin ab ante; the d was added by analogy with ad-.
源自中古英文 avauncen，來自拉丁文 ab ante「從前面」。
組成The -ing form of advance, used here as a way of naming the slow movement of age.
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
advancingnoun/ədˈvɑːnsɪŋ/
- 1
The act of proceeding forward; an advance.
- […] who feels, not as even the kindest and the holiest friend on earth can feel towards our patient endurance, our shortcomings, or our slow advancings […]
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
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