英语单词 | hasten |
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英美音标 | 英 ['heɪsn] 美 ['heɪsn] |
中文释义 | v.催促;赶快;加速 |
英语例句 | (1) Do not hasten to bid me adieu. (2) She hastened home after hearing the news. (3) Let me hasten to say that I could never do such a thing! (4) Fascism served only to hasten its destruction. (5) An electric typewriter would hasten the work . |
中文例句 | (1) 不要告别得那样匆忙。 (2) 听到这个消息后,她匆匆忙忙地回家。 (3) 让我赶快说我永远不能做这样的事情! (4) 法西斯主义只是加速了它的毁灭。 (5) 电动打字机会加速这项工作。 |
vocabulary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. |
vocabulary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. |
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]
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]
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]
4 [VERB 动词]赶往;赶去 If you hasten somewhere, you hurry there. [V prep/adv] [LITERARY 文]
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