advancing
進んでいる
解説 Definition
advancing は advance（進む、前進する）の現在分詞・動名詞で、「進んでいる」という意味です。人や計画、技術などが前に進んでいる状態を表します。
Moving forward physically or making progress toward a later, better, or more developed stage. It is the present participle of advance and can describe people, projects, knowledge, or technology that are continuing to progress.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
advancing は advance「前進する・進展する」の現在分詞・動名詞です。語末の e を落として -ing を付け、advance → advancing となります。be advancing なら「進んでいる」、advancing technology なら「進歩しつつある技術」。物理的な前進だけでなく、project is advancing のような計画の進展にも使えると覚えましょう。
Link advancing to the base verb advance, “to move forward or make progress.” To form the present participle, drop the final silent e and add -ing: advance becomes advancing. Picture an advancing team moving forward, then extend the same image to an advancing project or advancing technology. The movement may be physical, but it can also be progress toward completion or a more developed stage. In is advancing, the word forms a continuous verb phrase; before a noun, as in advancing technology, it describes something that is actively progressing.
例文
The team is advancing slowly.
そのチームはゆっくり進んでいます。
Our project is advancing as planned.
私たちの計画は予定どおり進んでいます。
The new technology is advancing every year.
その新しい技術は毎年進歩しています。
advancing の類義語・関連語
類義語
advancing の語源・成り立ち Etymology
advancingはadvanceの現在分詞で、語源は古フランス語avancier、さらにラテン語ante「前へ」に結びつきます。語の核が「前に出る・前へ進める」なので、物理的に進む場合にも、計画や成長が進行する場合にも「進んでいる」という意味になるわけです。同系にadvanced、advancementがあります。
Advancing is the present-particial form of advance, formed by dropping the final silent e and adding -ing. Advance entered English through Old French avancer or avancier, built from an expression meaning “forward” and ultimately associated with Latin ante, “before” or “in front.” Its central spatial idea of moving to the front naturally developed into the broader sense of making progress in plans, knowledge, technology, or development.
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