Expressing "more and more" with "yuelaiyue"

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"越 ... 越..." (yue ... yue ...) is used frequently in Chinese to express that something is becoming more and more (adjective) over time, with the latter adjectival verb changing with the former. The structure is:

Subject + 越来 + 越 + Adjective

This expresses that the subject is becoming more and more adjective

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