more and moreとは

意味・読み方・使い方

副詞

more and more

1. (degree) Progressively more.

   The road gets more and more steep.

   Oil is getting more and more expensive.

   He started calling more and more frequently.

   • 1923, Leo Tolstoy, Louise and Aylmer Maude (translators), War and Peace,

     What was expressed by the whole of the count's plump figure, in Marya Dmitrievna found expression only in her more and more beaming face and quivering nose.

   • 1959 February, G. Freeman Allen, “Southampton—Gateway to the Ocean”, in Trains Illustrated, page 91:

     The Southern acquired them because the little Class "B4" 0-4-0 tanks were finding heavy modern rolling stock more and more of a handful, and at war's end the railway had nothing of suitable power but short wheelbase on its books to take their place on the more tortuous of the dock lines.

2. (manner) In a manner that progressively increases.

   The wound hurt more and more as we walked on.

   • 1782, Robert Burns, John Barleycorn,

     His colour sicken'd more and more,

     He faded into age;

     And then his enemies began

     To show their deadly rage.

3. (modal) Indicates that the statement is becoming progressively more true.

   More and more, children are among the first to take up new technologies.

   • 1864 September, The Cadmean Madness in The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14,

     More and more it is not the soul and Nature, but the eye and print, whose resultant is thought.