| 词汇 | example_english_gradual |
| 释义 | Examples of gradualThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. Example 2 shows three graduals from a group of about nine melodies. In open-angle glaucoma, there is a gradual loss of vision that rarely leads to blindness. The evolution from one phase to the other was quite gradual, too. The third difference is that the change between the two eyes is gradual. At what point does the materialized spirit assume independent existence, considering that the extrusion of ectoplasm is a gradual process? Note that [gradual] implies [continuous] and [sharp] implies [acute] in this system (a hierarchical limitation). The overall degradation of the diffraction suggests that the reversible effects are also accompanied by gradual irreversible damage to the lattice. The probability level plot shows a slight, and very gradual, decline, down to the final agglomeration of all individuals into a single cluster. As proglottis development proceeds along the strobila, there is a gradual thickening of the lateral nerve cords at the anterior end of each segment. There is nothing gradual about a deep-sea migration, and boundaries are intrinsically sharp when speech communities are separated by large stretches of ocean. After suffering a significant loss of support in the 1974 elections, the military leadership began a gradual process of political liberalisation. The gradual succession of generations within the archaeological community has been a significant factor in this development. Is there a gradual transition towards exploitive agent success as the worlds become more populated with exploitive agents or is the transition sudden? The struggle for survival is presented in the context of the gradual but inevitable unification of the disparate communities into a single people. Other research indicates significant changes in families in terms of time use and a gradual convergence between men and women's patterns in the work roles. The second phase from 1890 to 1930/40 is characterised by the gradual crumbling of the distinction between the deserving and non-deserving poor. The chapter presents some evidence that their decline was not very gradual, but very sudden. An attempt at defining the class of gradual completion verbs. He had a gradual reduction in the use of negation over time (as a function of all utterances in his samples). The implementation should be gradual and slow moving over time. Joint angles plots illustrating accommodation when the fault results in a gradual change in the mass of link 1. Several other scholars, who claim a very gradual process, put the ending date of the vocalisation of \\l\\ in the middle of the 12th century. Average symptom severity decreased rapidly on all measures until mid-treatment, after which gradual decreases continued through the end of treatment. Our results reinforce the common clinical experience of rapid improvement early in acutephase cognitive therapy followed by more gradual change. The only 'development' in this literature is the gradual revelation of the human condition. In this experiment, we also measured the effect on performance of a gradual relaxation of the similarity measure. Figure 2 shows that, in this case, optimal policy smooths the short-run costs over time by taking a gradual approach to disinflation. Typically, recessions involve sharp but short-lived declines in economic activity, but expansions are gradual, and often last longer than recessions. Is it possible that lexical factors are involved in this phonetically gradual development of the nasal vowels? However, the overall picture shows gradual improvement over time. Little mention was made of the latter such as gradual rises and falls in channel values. Several methods for obtaining a gradual change towards static white noise are presented. We cannot keep track of 'progress' because there is no progress - no gradual movement in any direction. A chronological examination of die libretti demonstrates, however, a gradual demand for realism to the extent that writing and decor became more equally weighted. Rather than giving the performer control over frequency, this string uses a preprogrammed frequency score, a very gradual two-octave glissando. Again, various labor market rigidities may necessitate a gradual transition of employment levels over time. They are plotted so as to be gradual, and this way of plotting rules out some steady states that otherwise might exist. The gradual increase in household autonomy challenged the social, ceremonial and economic foundations of the neighbourhood communities. The first pattern, of gradual decision-making, was associated with the most positive experiences of the move, but was described by only three participants. Control over retirement decisions was also explored ; it emerged as a more important factor in retirement wellbeing than whether the transition was gradual or abrupt. In the existing orthodoxy, settler farming developed along a gradual, cataclysm-free road to capitalist agriculture. The combined effect was increasing specialization and division of labour, in particular, a gradual separation of weaving from wool production and wool trade. The gradual broadening of the spectral lines closer to the target, that is, with decreasing distance y, is obvious. The outcomes of public policies thus seem to provide feedback for a continuous and gradual revision of political predispositions. However, conservatives advocated a more gradual and less thoroughgoing transition to commercial agriculture than even moderate liberals. However, natural variation in complexity and cue validity is gradual and confounded with a host of other variables. Part-time employment, argues the author, is the most appropriate way to engineer, first, an extension to working lives and, secondly, a gradual retirement transition. They lead to a gradual loss of some key abilities required for coping in an urban environment. Tracing gradual environmental change avoids encounters with populations full of arguments and opinions about how nature is constituted. If linguistic theory is incompatible with gradual evolution and development, perhaps linguistic theory needs to be revised. In this way any existing and newly developed variation could be beneficially exploited, in order to either avoid gradual degeneration or even upgrading the cultivar. In a process drift failure, the diagnosis of each potential source component will be more gradual. I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas. Table 3 lists examples illustrating the gradual appearance of language-speci®c morphology from ages 1;8 to 2;3. The change might be quite abrupt or gradual, occurring via a metamorphosis so that the new idea emerged from its predecessor. A period of music therapy provides opportunities for detailed and ongoing observation, assessment and gradual understanding of an individual's unique patterns of communication. Given the child's gradual exposure to the language, this is a logically signi®cant possibility. Interestingly, the gradual process towards stable farmsteads begins at a time when the communal urnfields are no longer in use. Accumulation is only gradual, however, because the focus in these longitudinal studies is far from homogeneous. Over the period the newspaper experienced a gradual decrease in the average length of its crime reports. The itinerant specialist and the gradual erasure of local variation were as much the product of the railway age as its viaducts and tunnels. Democratising the public sphere turned out to be a gradual process from within, encompassing a multitude of conflicts and setbacks. Things cannot continue as they are at present without preparing ground for the gradual destruction of tens of thousands. In my view, the linguistic correlate of functional turnover, selective replication, does not need to be a gradual process. During this cell migration there is also a gradual loss of extracellular protein. The improvement in working people's incomes was matched by a gradual decline in the degree of impoverishment amongst the retired population. What may be needed is a gradual process of change, driven by a participatory process involving all principals. Under conditions of ongoing uncertainty and gradual arrival of information, waiting has positive value. In other words, they cause gradual loss of resilience, making the system increasingly unstable. In practice, failure could well be partial and gradual. A gradual increase of the tax rate until it reaches $24 makes the power plants switch to washed coal in 2003. The latter emerged only through a long-drawn-out process involving the gradual reconfiguration of the structure of a noun phrase into that of a nonfinite clause. Individually and collectively these processes have different rates of change over time, at times gradual and at other times quite rapid. Further, numerous self-report and parent-report measures also showed gradual, but continual, improvements after posttreatment assessments. Overall teen drug use continues gradual decline; but use of inhalants rises. Note that this difference is a gradual, not an absolute, one. Sleep onset is a condition in which a gradual transition from waking to sleep takes place. Failure to do so may well lead to institutionalized language segregation and a gradual loss of national unity. However, selection remained transient, with a gradual fall in transduced cells post-selection. There is no compensatory increase in blood volume and there is a gradual fall in plasma volume, due primarily to diuresis. Within the two sequences there are gradual transitions between the facies associations reflecting gradual shoaling. In rare cases, a gradual coarsening-upwards trend is also observed. Language attrition, our topic here, refers to the gradual forgetting of a language by individual attriters, persons who are experiencing attrition. Should such a merger be considered a sudden leap rather than a gradual transition ? The example of the two graduals is characteristic of the relationship of the two traditions. Altogether five graduals have a different melody in one tradition than in the other. The burden of the singers in learning the various second-mode graduals was greatly lessened in the same manner. As early as 1572 graduals were being published that claimed to be based on the reformed missal, however imperfectly the intention may have been carried out. Furthermore, we shall limit ourselves for the most part to a specific part of the repertory, the graduals, of which a few typical examples will be given. In regard to the observations made so far, one ought to consider five graduals that have a different melody in one tradition than in the other. What we often see in ontogeny is the gradual expression of motor systems, already present early in ontogeny, not the formation of new patterns. First, they suggest some sort of gradual linear development from radicalism to reformism. In contrast, there has been a gradual decline in local authority provision. A number of explanations are available, then, for apparent exceptions; but these rely on the assumption that at least some sound changes are lexically gradual. Again, clinical improvement was gradual and progressive and, in some cases, was not seen for 12 weeks. There was then a gradual move back to private trading. The eighteenth century also saw a gradual rise in the share of resources devoted to investment. The story that emerges is a gradual accretion of incidents, each carefully considered, often developed through several versions. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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