- 1rB2
/ˈɡrædʒuəli/
Slowly, in small steps, over a long time — not all at once.
逐漸／漸漸
核心畫面
Picture climbing a staircase one step at a time — each step is small, almost , but the steps pile up until you are somewhere quite different. 'Gradually' is change that arrives step by step, over a long time, never in one jump.
可以想成一階一階慢慢走樓梯:每一步都很小,你幾乎感覺不到,但一步步累積下來,最後你已經到了完全不同的地方。gradu…更多收起
可以想成一階一階慢慢走樓梯:每一步都很小,你幾乎感覺不到,但一步步累積下來,最後你已經到了完全不同的地方。gradually 描述的就是這種一小步一小步、拉長時間慢慢到位、絕不是一次跳過去的變化。From the word’s history
From Latin 'gradus' = a step (the same root behind 'grade' and 'gradient'). 'Gradual' literally means 'by steps', which is exactly the picture: change moving forward one small step at a time.
來自拉丁文 gradus,意思是『一階、一步』(grade 分級、gradient 坡度也都是同一個字根)。gradual 字面上就是『按步驟、一階一階地』——正好對上核心畫面:變化一小步一小步往前推。
etymonline.com/word/gradually; Wiktionary 'gradual' (< Medieval Latin gradualis < Latin gradus 'step')
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，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。
graduallyadv/ˈɡɹæd͡ʒuəli/
- 1
In a gradual manner; making slow progress; slowly.
- The most likely conclusion, the researchers say, is that the Levallois method was not taken to Eurasia by African migrants, but evolved there gradually and independently.
- The instrument of this dumbing down in Nineteen Eighty-Four was Newspeak, the official language of the English Socialist Party (Ingsoc). Newspeak was a sort of Totalitarian Esperanto that sought gradually to diminish the range of what was thinkable by eliminating, contracting and manufacturing words.
- 2
obsoleteby degrees
- Horns, upon the due accession of Moisture, doth gradually become Soft.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。