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hasten v.催促,赶紧,促进,加速 Hasten comes from the word haste, which means "excessive speed or urgency." The words hurry and hasten are synonyms. Hasten can also mean "to make happen quickly," like when you open a window in the kitchen when you are cooking to hasten the room's cooling down. Hasten also means "to be quick," like when you hasten to tell everyone that the rumor going around about you isn't true. ★☆☆☆☆ 2002.4

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['heis(ə)n] The verb hasten means to move at a high speed. If you hasten to your room, no one will know that you came in late. Nancy Dubler, director of Montefiore Medical Center, contends that the principle will shield doctors who “until now have very, very strongly insisted that they could not give patients sufficient mediation to control their pain if that might hasten death.” 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。

英语单词	hasten
英美音标	['heis(ə)n]
中文释义	v.催促,赶紧,促进,加速
vocab简明	The verb hasten means to move at a high speed. If you hasten to your room, no one will know that you came in late.
vocab扩展	Hasten comes from the word haste, which means "excessive speed or urgency." The words hurry and hasten are synonyms. Hasten can also mean "to make happen quickly," like when you open a window in the kitchen when you are cooking to hasten the room's cooling down. Hasten also means "to be quick," like when you hasten to tell everyone that the rumor going around about you isn't true.
真题原句	Nancy Dubler, director of Montefiore Medical Center, contends that the principle will shield doctors who “until now have very, very strongly insisted that they could not give patients sufficient mediation to control their pain if that might hasten death.”
柯林斯星级	★☆☆☆☆
柯林斯解释	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。
来源	2002.4

Hasten Verb 动词 [V Ed Means Hurry Make