trend; tendency

(of economic activity, international relations etc) to cool

driving force

to converge

direction; trend; to incline

(increasing) day by day; (more critical) with every passing day; gradually

to become more and more; to gradually become

increasingly; more and more

see 亦步亦趨|亦步亦趋[yi4 bu4 yi4 qu1]

to blindly follow suit (idiom); to imitate slavishly; to do what everyone else is doing