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Hasten Hastened Quickly Verb 动词   [V Ed I

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.

词语hasten有多种含义,包括行为或事件急促发生、急于做某事、急忙解释,以及急忙赶往某处。

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/he͟ɪs(ə)n/
1
[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。

2
[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。

3
[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。

4
[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 ; NAmE ˈheɪsn / verb 1 [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
hurry
hasten hastens hastened hastening
has·ten / ˈheɪsn ; NAmE ˈheɪsn /
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hastenhas‧ten /ˈheɪsən/ verb formal
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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 delay SYN  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
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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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