improving
FREQ #10943
a. 有启发的；有教育意义的
发音
其它
/ɪmˈpɹuːvɪŋ/
词形变化
more improving
比较级
most improving
最高级
释义与例句
v.
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1.
present participle and gerund of improve
adj.
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1.
That tends to improve someone or something (especially (dated) to educate or morally better a person).
1663, Robert Boyle, Some Considerations Touching the Usefulnesse of Experimental Naturall Philosophy, Oxford: Ric[hard] Davis, Essay 1, p. 2, […] that Diviner part of Man, the Soule, which alone is capable of wearing the Glorious Image of its Author, being endowed with two chief Faculties, the Understanding and the Will; the former is blest and perfectionated by Knowledg, and the latter’s Loveliest and most improving property is Goodnesse.