Accelerate Faster əkˈseləreɪt Accelerated Vehicle Car Verb Process
The word "accelerate" means to increase in speed or to cause something to happen faster or earlier. This can apply to vehicles increasing their speed or to processes like economic growth speeding up.
[V-ERG 及物/不及物动词](使)加快;(使)增速 If the process or rate of something accelerates or if something accelerates it, it gets faster and faster.
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Growth will accelerate to 2.9 per cent next year...
明年的增长会加快到2.9%。
The government is to accelerate its privatisation programme.
政府将加快其私有化计划的进程。
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[VERB 动词](运动中的车辆)加速 When a moving vehicle accelerates, it goes faster and faster.
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Suddenly the car accelerated...
汽车突然加速。
She accelerated away from the kerb.
她加速驶离了马路牙子。
Oxford
ac·cel·er·ate/əkˈseləreɪt; NAmEəkˈseləreɪt/verb1[intransitive , transitive ]to happen or to make sth happen faster or earlier than expected (使)加速,加快◆Inflation continues to accelerate.通货膨胀不断加速。acceleratesth ◆Exposure to the sun can accelerate the ageing process.暴露在日光下会加快老化过程。2[intransitive ](of a vehicle or person 车辆或人)to start to go faster 加速;加快◆The runners accelerated smoothly around the bend.赛跑运动员在转弯处顺势加速。◆The car accelerated to overtake me.那辆汽车加速超过了我。OPP
1[intransitive, transitive] if a process accelerates or if something accelerates it, it happens faster than usual or sooner than you expect: measures to accelerate the rate of economic growth2[intransitive] if a vehicle or someone who is driving it accelerates, it starts to go fasterOPP decelerate: The car accelerated smoothly away.