regress(RETURN TO WORSE STATE)formal
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to continue gradually: 缓慢进行
As the war progressed, more and more countries became involved.随着战争的推进，越来越多的国家卷入其中。
We started off talking about the weather and gradually the conversation progressed to politics.我们从谈论天气开始，话题逐渐转向政治。
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to move something to a more advanced or developed state:
I decided to do a postgraduate course because it's a good way to progress your career.
I am anxious to progress discussions on the two projects as soon as possible.
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to move forward:
As you progress up the valley, views open up.
There were no signs indicating that workers should not progress beyond that point.
As his illness progressed, he made fewer entries in his diary.随着病情加重，他日记记得越来越少。
The building project is progressing well.
Unfortunately this is a disease which progresses very rapidly.
Whenever I talk to him we never seem to progress beyond the weather and holidays.
He started as an apprentice but quickly progressed to foreman.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Making progress and advancing
adaptive evolution
advance the cause
advanced
advancement
age
boom
evolve
evolved
flourish
flower
formatively
from A to Bidiom
mature
punctuated equilibrium
rebuild
regenerate
ripen
ripeness
spread
wing

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Continue & last
Advancing and moving forward

Examples of progressed

progressed

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Prereaders progressed faster in learning to read the visual list, whereas novice and veteran readers progressed faster in learning to read the phonetic list.
Because of this position, the ethics committee was marginalized as the case progressed.
As to diet, the number of portions of fruit and vegetables eaten each day was monitored as participants progressed through the intervention.
As her research progressed, she used more complex case representations, reasoning and learning strategies, and data mining techniques for pattern recognition.
Seven other patients have progressed to permanent complete atrioventricular block 0.3 to nine years after their first follow-up, at 0.3 to 14 years of age.
In some areas such as education and public administration they have progressed as well as women in developed countries.
Finally, no condition contained a serial progression of word lists that began with a 3-word list and progressed incrementally to a 7-word list.
As the study progressed, several revisions of the leaflets and posters were undertaken.
Moreover, not all of the "missed" positive smears would eventually have progressed to invasive cancer.
It shows that the architect's plan was, from the start, for the whole site, and that construction was phased as acquisition progressed.
As the decade progressed, however, there were increasingly vocal debates about the extent of choice in the private sector.
These stories of the self gave informants a sense of narrative identity which gradually dissolved as the illness progressed.
As the study progressed, the results were regularly but informally presented back to the design manager, who championed the collaboration.
At the end of their first placements most students have progressed to become advanced beginners.
Whereas the comparison group hardly progressed throughout the year, the intervention group progressed substantially on all three skills.
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