hastening
v. 加速,催促,趕快( hasten的現在分詞 ); 快速趕往某地
If you hasten an event or process, often an unpleasant one, you make it happen faster or sooner.
But if he does this, he may hasten the collapse of his own country.
但是如果他這樣做,就有可能加速自己國家的崩潰。
If you hasten to do something, you are quick to do it.
She more than anyone had hastened to sign the contract.
她比誰都急著去簽了合同。
If you hasten to say something, you quickly add something to what you have just said in order to prevent it being misunderstood.
Naturally, it'll go back. But without Murray's little note, I hasten to add...
很自然,它會返回。但沒有默裡的便條,我急忙補充道。
'There's no threat in this, Freddie,' Arnold hastened to say...
“這不會有什麼危險的,弗雷迪,”阿諾德急忙補充了一句。
If you hasten somewhere, you hurry there.
One of them, the first to alight, hastened with quicksilver steps towards me.
他們中第一個下來的人急急忙忙地快步向我走來。
1. proceeding quickly or in haste;
He was single-mindedly devoted to the hastening of freedom for the oppressed.
他一心一意致力於早日讓被壓迫者獲得自由。
It was now obvious that he was hastening to restore the keys to their owner.
現在他顯然正急著把鑰匙歸還原主.
Crowds were hastening to dine.
許多人匆匆地趕去進餐.
Tito stood by her without hastening to reach the book.
蒂託站在她身旁,並未急忙地去取書.
They are hastening the event they dread.
他們正在催促自己害怕的時刻更快到來.