Optimists, to be sure, could point to a few signs of progress since 1865 . 诚然，乐观主义者能够指出1865年以来少数进步的迹象。
At any given time, the status of technical progress is relatively inflexible . 在某一特定的时间，技术进步的状况是相对稳定的。
It is accepted by progressive farmers as one of our most valuable grazing species . 它被一些进步的牧场主视为一种最宝贵的饲料。
These civic advances came at a price already beginning to be evident before the civil war . 这些市政进步的代价，在南北战争之前就已经渐渐很明显了。
If this method of progress seems chancy and wasteful, it has the merit of its faults . 如果这种进步的方法好像太碰机会，也太浪费了，它的缺点也不无利益的功绩。
Creative advertising need not be bad or destructive, but rather it can be contemporary . 创造性的广告并非定是不好或具有破坏性的，相反，它符合时代进步的要求。
The problem whether organization on the whole has advanced is in many ways excessively intricate . 整个讲来结构是否是进步的，这在许多方面都是一个异常复杂的问题。
When levels of income are very low, the most elementary aspirations for human existence and improvement are frustrated . 当收入的水平很低时，人类生存和进步的最基本愿望，便受到挫败。
These milestones of human progress occur in the midst of a society sunk in a statistically proven barbarism . 人类进步的这些里程碑，是在社会正在沉论到统计数字已经证实了的野蛮状态之中出现的。
