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資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
More \More\, adv.
1. In a greater quantity; in or to a greater extent or
degree.
(a) With a verb or participle.
Admiring more The riches of Heaven's pavement.
--Milton.
(b) With an adjective or adverb (instead of the suffix
-er) to form the comparative degree; as, more durable;
more active; more sweetly.
Happy here, and more happy hereafter. --Bacon.
Note: Double comparatives were common among writers of the
Elizabeth period, and for some time later; as, more
brighter; more dearer.
The duke of Milan And his more braver daughter.
--Shak.
2. In addition; further; besides; again.
Yet once more, Oye laurels, and once more, Ye
myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, I come to pluck
your berries harsh and crude. --Milton.
{More and more}, with continual increase. ``Amon trespassed
more and more.'' --2 Chron. xxxiii. 23.
{The more}, to a greater degree; by an added quantity; for a
reason already specified.
{The more -- the more}, by how much more -- by so much more.
``The more he praised in himself, the more he seems to
suspect that in very deed it was not in him.'' --Milton.
{To be no more}, to have ceased to be; as, Cassius is no
more; Troy is no more.
Those oracles which set the world in flames, Nor
ceased to burn till kingdoms were no more. --Byron.
資料來源 : WordNet®
more and more
adv : advancing in amount or intensity; "she became increasingly
depressed" [syn: {increasingly}, {progressively}]