step steps 停下~ stop one’s footsteps || 加快~ quicken one’s pace common saying tap dance a bunch of step, stage a gust of travel on foot take a walk run, jog step step steady advance (lit.) a person stepping on two boats, keeping options open climb step by step, rise steadily ~快/慢 improve quickly/slowly || 有很大~ make great progress || 社会~ social progress move step by step go backwards fall back fall behind, retrogress be in the lead, lead anticipate, preempt step down from the stage or platform, fall out of power, leave office intrude, invade concede quicken, speed up synchronism, in pace with One who retreats 50 paces mocks one who retreats 100, the pot calls the kettle black overstep, go beyond surmount, overstep heavy stepfather stepmother stepfather stepmother every step leaves its print-work steadily and make solid progress in a mess further, to move forward one step further. step by step in big strides, to take a big step beginning-stages, preliminary the next step step by step, progressively