advance
US:/ədˈvæns/
UK:/ədˈvɑːns/
n.:
进展；进步；提高；预付款
v.:
提前；进步；促进；预付
adj.:
先遣队；预先的；事先的；先头部队
网络:
前进；推进
Word forms: (第三人称单数) advances (现在分词) advancing (过去式) advanced
Examples
1.
We need only to be patient as the current profit phase expires and a new cash buildup phase gets ready to fuel the next advance.
我们只需要耐心的当前利润阶段届满和新的建设阶段得到的现金准备燃料在未来推进。
2.
The second advance is a way of switching thousands of volts on and off in a few billionths of a second, a previously impossible feat.
第二个是可在数亿分之一秒的时间里实现数千伏电压的通断，这是一项前所未有的成就。
3.
The boat continued to advance, until its bows grated on the gravel of the beach.
小舟继续前进，船头终于触到了砾石滩。
4.
Take a political step forward, and if the electorate does not notice then take the ground gained as the starting point for the next advance.
在政治上向前迈出一步，如果选民们没有察觉，就把已经获得的成绩当作出发点，再迈出下一步。
5.
Would you please let me know when it will be convenient with you in the mainland factory? Then I can be there in advance, thank you a lot.
不知你何时有空会在大陆工厂，能让我知道几点会更好以便我能准时到达，谢谢。
6.
You must nourish me; you give all that in advance, which I do not understand to ask for.
你必须给我以滋润，你必须事先给予那些我没有理解没有向你要求的一切。
7.
Don't expect to be able to advance to the next page unless you disable validation or enter a valid credit card number.
除非您禁用验证或输入有效的信用卡卡号，否则不要期望能够进入下一个页面。
8.
Could you tell me in advance how much the dinner will cost?
你可以事先告訴我晚餐要花多少錢嗎
9.
It recently rejected an application to protect the name D. melanogaster, which had been made in advance of a proposed revision of the genus.
这个委员会近期拒绝了一份申请来保护D.melanogaster这个原先的命名，这份申请是在果蝇属类修正案之前提出的。
10.
This means that Southern Company has a good idea, in advance, of how much money it will earn from generating electricity.
这就是说，与其他公司相比，南方公司在如何通过发电赚钱的问题上先想出一个好主意。