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    improvement查询结果如下:

    音标:[ɪm'pruːvmənt]
    名词复数:improvements 词频:高频常用词
    基本释义/说明:n.改进;改善
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    n.
    改善,改良;改进;进步,好转;
    make improvements in the typewriter
    改进打字机.
    There is room for improvement in your handwriting.
    你的书法尚有改进的余地.
    This composition is an improvement on (upon or over) your last.
    这篇作文比你上次的进步了.
    -扩展释义
    n. 【航空工程】
    改进,改良;改进,改善
    lateral stability improvement programme
    侧向稳定改善计划;横向稳定改善计划
    【医学】 【中医】
    改进,改善,好转
    Working Group on Improvement of Data on Smallscale and Household Industries
    改进小型工业和家庭工业数据工作组
    n. 【法律专业】
    革新
    n.
    1. 改进,改善;增进[U][C][(+in)]2. 改进处,改善处[C]3. 改善的事物;胜过他人的人[C][(+on/over)]
    Working Group on Improvement of Data on Smallscale and Household Industries
    改进小型工业和家庭工业数据工作组
    -同义词和反义词

    词性:noun

    -improvement的不同词性形态

    形容词 变体/同根词

    That has been made better; enhanced.
    “The company has just released an improved version of their laptop.”
    “Your brother is improved after several days of rest.”
    That tends to improve someone or something (especially (dated) to educate or morally better a person).
    “She says I should stop wasting my time entertaining low-rent celebs and should stick to reading improving books.”
    capable of being improved; susceptible of improvement; admitting of being made better; capable of cultivation, or of being advanced in good qualities || capable of being used to advantage; profitable; serviceable; advantageous
    “The innate goodness of an improvable humanity, like the oversight of a benign deity, eroded along with faith in democratic institutions.”
    “Third, to decide and act as if we were nothing more than complex and vastly improvable machines has another troubling consequence.”
    “Man is an improvable being, and indefinite progress is the law of his existence.”

    名词 变体/同根词

    动词 变体/同根词

    (transitive) To make (something) better; to increase the value or productivity (of something). || (intransitive) To become better. || (过时的,旧时用法) To disprove or make void; to refute. || (过时的,旧时用法) To disapprove of; to find fault with; to reprove; to censure. || (dated) To use or employ to good purpose; to turn to profitable account.
    “Some new paving will improve the appearance of our town considerably.”
    “Jerry has to improve his game significantly if he wants to make the team.”
    “The weather is set to improve this afternoon after a short period of heavy rain in the morning.”
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