adv. 逐步地,渐渐地;按部就班地;日趋;冉冉;
💡 grad步+ ual...的 + ly...地→ gradual逐步的+ ly...地 → 逐步地
"The drugs work well at first but gradually lose their effectiveness."
这些药的效果起初非常好,但后来逐渐失效.
近义:increasingly, progressively, seriatim, slowly, successively, consecutively
反义:clean, cold
adj. 没有人情味的;非个人的,和个人无关的;不具人格的,一般性的;[语]非人称的;
n. [语]非人称动词;非人称代名词;不具人格的事物;
"a vast impersonal organization"
庞大而不讲人情的组织
近义:cold, glassy
反义:individual, own