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推移

tuī yí

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

推移 (tuī yí) means "(of time) to elapse or pass; (of a situation) to develop or evolve". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 推移 means

1. (of time) to elapse; to pass
2. (of a situation) to develop; to evolve
3. to shift; to slide; to move smoothly and continuously along a surface

The characters in 推移

• 推tuīto push; to cut; to refuse
• 移yíto move; to shift; to change

Example sentences

• 我的生活随着时间的推移而变得越来越糟糕。
  Wǒ de shēnghuó suízhe shíjiān de tuīyí ér biànde yuèláiyuè zāogāo.
  As time goes on, my life gets worse and worse.
• 中国的经济随着时间的推移而变得越来越好。
  Zhōngguó de jīngjì suízhe shíjiān de tuīyí ér biànde yuèláiyuè hǎo.
  As time goes on, China's economy gets stronger and stronger.
• 随着时间的推移，比赛增加了规则以使之更安全。
  Suízhe shíjiān de tuīyí, bǐsài zēngjiā le guīzé yǐ shǐ zhī gèng ānquán.
  As time went on, rules were added to the game to make it safer.

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• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read tuī yí correctly.
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