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"name": "英語副詞",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
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"kind": "other",
"name": "英語詞元",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"lang": "英語",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adv",
"senses": [
{
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1861, Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, ch. 59:",
"text": "Everything else has gone from me, little by little, but I have kept this."
},
{
"ref": "1905, P. G. Wodehouse, The Head of Kay's, ch. 13:",
"text": "Little by little his head cleared, and he began once more to take a personal interest in the battle."
},
{
"ref": "2011 March 6, Jack Healy, \"Baghdad Neighborhood Celebrates as a Wall Is Taken Away,\" New York Times (retrieved 22 Nov 2011):",
"text": "Iraq's government has been removing blast walls little by little since late 2008, trying to restore a semblance of normalcy to this bunker city."
}
],
"glosses": [
"逐漸，一點一點"
],
"id": "zh-little_by_little-en-adv-qxXYJjQa"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "bit by bit, incrementally, step by step, stepwise, footmeal, gradatim"
}
],
"word": "little by little"
}
{
"categories": [
"英語副詞",
"英語詞元"
],
"lang": "英語",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adv",
"senses": [
{
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1861, Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, ch. 59:",
"text": "Everything else has gone from me, little by little, but I have kept this."
},
{
"ref": "1905, P. G. Wodehouse, The Head of Kay's, ch. 13:",
"text": "Little by little his head cleared, and he began once more to take a personal interest in the battle."
},
{
"ref": "2011 March 6, Jack Healy, \"Baghdad Neighborhood Celebrates as a Wall Is Taken Away,\" New York Times (retrieved 22 Nov 2011):",
"text": "Iraq's government has been removing blast walls little by little since late 2008, trying to restore a semblance of normalcy to this bunker city."
}
],
"glosses": [
"逐漸，一點一點"
]
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "bit by bit, incrementally, step by step, stepwise, footmeal, gradatim"
}
],
"word": "little by little"
}
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