(noun.) an advanced stage; 'the forwardness of the harvest this year'; 'the arts are in no kind of forwardness in this matter'.
拜伦整理
双语例句
In the interests of renown the forwardness should lie chiefly in the capacity to handle things. 托马斯·哈代.还乡.
Jessie, curb that tongue of yours, and repress your forwardness! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.雪莉.
Obtrusiveness is a crime, forwardness is a crime, and both disgust; but love! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.雪莉.
And this, as I imagine, is the reason why the forwardness to take office, instead of waiting to be compelled, has been deemed dishonourable. 柏拉图.理想国.
Thus she was a girl of some forwardness of mind, indeed, weighed in relation to her situation among the very rearward of thinkers, very original. 托马斯·哈代.还乡.