By degrees their friendship grew into love.

他们的友谊逐渐发展成为爱情。

《牛津词典》

A sense of self develops in young children by degrees.

儿童的自我意识是逐渐形成的。

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The truth was drawn from him by degrees.

真实情况终于从他那里一点点地套了出来。

《新英汉大辞典》

This extra heat can raise temperatures in cities by about one to three degrees Celsius compared to rural areas.

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The Elder Brother is explaining that these angels will: Begin to cast a beam on the outward shape, The unpolluted temple of the mind, And turns it by degrees to the soul's essence, Till all be made immortal.

大哥解释说，这些天使将会：,在身体上投射光束，在心里未受污染的殿堂上投射光束，把它变回灵魂的本质，直到全部人都变成不朽的人。

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In fact, temperature is such a carefully controlled parameter that when it changes just a little bit by a couple of degrees, we know that something's wrong.

事实上,体温被控制得如此精细,哪怕只改变几度,我们就能感觉出来不对劲

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By degrees, Bernie becomes her friend and business manager, and, eventually, her travelling companion and sole heir.

NEWYORKER: Funny and Funnier

As a result, by degrees, natural-rate theory has been recaptured by the centre-left.

ECONOMIST: Up the NAIRU without a paddle

It was for these reasons that Mr Koizumi outlined plans to privatise Japan Post by degrees between 2007 and 2017.

ECONOMIST: Japan's failed postal privatisation