单词 | quickly growing |
释义 | > as lemmasquickly growing 3. With participial adjectives, as quickly aging, quickly gone, quickly growing, quickly-speaking, quickly working, etc. ΚΠ 1597 J. Gerard Herball Table Eng. Names Quickly gone flower, that is Uenice Mallow. a1627 T. Middleton Chast Mayd in Cheape-side (1630) iv. 50 (song) Can there be any part of blisse, In a quickly fleeting kisse. 1771 J. H. Wynne Prostitute 12 The fleeting race of quickly-dying hours. 1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers xxxiii. 370 Pickwick..gazed at the foreman with an agitated countenance and a quickly beating heart. 1859 G. Wilson & A. Geikie Mem. E. Forbes iv. 106 Quickly-collected, yet trustworthy data. 1870 W. D. Christie in Dryden's Wks. (Globe) p. xv An active and quickly working brain. 1874 L. Carr Judith Gwynne I. i. 44 The quickly-speaking eyes of the dashing warrior. a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. ix. 165 Arrow-Worms..are quite transparent, lightly built, quickly moving. 1948 G. D. H. Bell Cultivated Plants Farm x. 80 (plate 18) As a group, turnips are more quickly growing than swedes. 1993 Online Access Sept. 21/2 Adaptive..thinkers able to function in a very different world from their quickly aging technophobic parents. < as lemmas |
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