The word "hasten" has multiple meanings, including causing an action or event to occur more quickly, being quick to do something, or hurrying to a place.
[VERB 动词]加速,加快(常指不愉快的事) If you hasten an event or process, often an unpleasant one, you make it happen faster or sooner.
[V n]
But if he does this, he may hasten the collapse of his own country.
但是如果他这样做,就有可能加速自己国家的崩溃。
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[VERB 动词]急忙;赶快;赶紧 If you hasten to do something, you are quick to do it.
[V to-inf]
She more than anyone had hastened to sign the contract.
她比谁都急着去签了合同。
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[VERB 动词](为避免他人误会)急忙(补充说) If you hasten to say something, you quickly add something to what you have just said in order to prevent it being misunderstood.
[V to-inf]
Naturally, it'll go back. But without Murray's little note, I hasten to add...
很自然,它会返回。但没有默里的便条,我急忙补充道。
'There's no threat in this, Freddie,' Arnold hastened to say...
“这不会有什么危险的,弗雷迪,”阿诺德急忙补充了一句。
He hastened to assure me that there was nothing traumatic to report.
他急忙向我保证没有什么不快的事情要说。
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[VERB 动词]赶往;赶去 If you hasten somewhere, you hurry there.
[V prep/adv]
[LITERARY 文]
One of them, the first to alight, hastened with quicksilver steps towards me.
他们中第一个下来的人急急忙忙地快步向我走来。
Oxford
has·ten/ˈheɪsn; NAmEˈheɪsn/verb1[intransitive ]hastento do sth to say or do sth without delay 急忙进行;赶紧说(或做)◆She saw his frown and hastened to explain.看到他皱起眉头,她赶紧解释。◆He has been described as a ‘charmless bore’—not by me, I hasten to add.他被说成是“无聊的啰嗦鬼” — 不是我说的,我赶忙加了一句。2[transitive ]hastensth ( formal) to make sth happen sooner or more quickly 促进;使加快◆The treatment she received may, in fact, have hastened her death.实际上,她所接受的治疗可能加快了她的死亡。◆News of the scandal certainly hastened his departure from office.这一丑闻肯定加速了他的离任。3[intransitive ]+ adv./prep.( literary) to go or move somewhere quickly 赶往(某地)SYN
1[transitive] to make something happen faster or sooner: Their departure was hastened by an abnormally cold winter.2[intransitive] to do or say something quickly or without delaySYN hurryhasten to do something I hastened to assure her that there was no danger.3I hasten to add used when you realize that what you have said may not have been understood correctly: an exhausting course, which, I hasten to add, was also great fun4[intransitive always + adverb/preposition] literary to go somewhere quickly
WDF
hasten
[ˈheɪsn]hastened, hastening, hastens
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hastened[218]
加速(67%),赶快(17%),催促(16%)
vt.加速;使赶紧;催促
vi.赶快;急忙
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