英语词组to inch along是什么意思，短语翻译、用法及例句-英语词组固定搭配大全

by inches

Slowly over time. You won't improve your grade all at once, but rather, by inches throughout the semester.

by inches

Also, inch by inch. Gradually, bit by bit, as in We found ourselves in rush hour traffic, moving by inches. Shakespeare used this term in Coriolanus (5:4): "They'll give him death by inches." Despite the increasing use of metric measurements, it survives, often as an exaggeration of the actual circumstance. The phrase to inch along, first recorded in 1812, means "to move bit by bit," as in There was a long line at the theater, just inching along.

词组	to inch along
释义	(redirected from to inch along) by inches Slowly over time. You won't improve your grade all at once, but rather, by inches throughout the semester. by inches Also, inch by inch. Gradually, bit by bit, as in We found ourselves in rush hour traffic, moving by inches. Shakespeare used this term in Coriolanus (5:4): "They'll give him death by inches." Despite the increasing use of metric measurements, it survives, often as an exaggeration of the actual circumstance. The phrase to inch along, first recorded in 1812, means "to move bit by bit," as in There was a long line at the theater, just inching along.
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