| 单词 | hurry |
| 释义 | hurry (once / 57 pages) vn To hurry is to rush, or to move quickly. If you're late for a movie and you don't want to miss the beginning, you'll have to hurry into the theater, not stopping to buy popcorn. When you're out for a walk and the sun begins to set, you might hurry home before it gets dark — in other words, move rapidly, or in haste. You can also hurry someone else, encouraging them to speed up. Your math teacher may criticize your sloppy work by commenting, "Looks like you were in a hurry." Hurry is one of many words that were invented by William Shakespeare, who used it frequently. WORD FAMILYhurry: hurried, hurries, hurrying+/hurried: hurrieder, hurriedly, hurriedness, unhurried/hurrying: hurryingly, hurryings/unhurried: unhurriedly, unhurriedness USAGE EXAMPLESDown the hall in a science room, just a few minutes after classes begin, a student hurries to talk to his teacher. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) Hurrying over, the team doctor saw that the injury was to Grimes’s left knee—not the one with tendinitis. The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) “I was always in more of a hurry than he was.” Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) 1v move very fast Syn|Hypo|Hyper speed, travel rapidly, zip dart, fleet, flit, flutter move along rapidly and lightly; skim or dart runmove fast by using one's feet, with one foot off the ground at any given time whizz, whizz along, zoom, zoom alongmove along very quickly butterflyflutter like a butterfly clip, jog, trotrun at a moderately swift pace scamper, scurry, scuttle, skitterto move about or proceed hurriedly romprun easily and fairly fast run basesrun around the bases, in baseball streakrun naked in a public place runrun with the ball; in such sports as football outrunrun faster than jogrun for exercise sprintrun very fast, usually for a short distance loperun easily rushrun with the ball, in football harerun quickly, like a hare go, locomote, move, travel change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically 2v act or move at high speed hurry--it's late! Syn|Hyper festinate, hasten, look sharp, rush act, move perform an action, or work out or perform (an action) 3v urge to an unnatural speed Syn|Ant|Hyper rush delay, detain, hold up cause to be slowed down or delayed exhort, press, urge, urge on force or impel in an indicated direction 4n the act of moving hurriedly and in a careless manner Syn|Hypo|Hyper haste, rush, rushing bolt, dash the act of moving with great haste scamper, scramble, scurryrushing about hastily in an undignified way motion, move, movement the act of changing location from one place to another 5n overly eager speed (and possible carelessness) Syn|Hypo|Hyper haste, hastiness, hurriedness, precipitation abruptness, precipitance, precipitancy, precipitateness, precipitousness, suddenness the quality of happening with headlong haste or without warning fastness, speed, swiftness a rate (usually rapid) at which something happens 6n a condition of urgency making it necessary to hurry in a hurry to lock the door Syn|Hyper haste urgency the state of being urgent; an earnest and insistent necessity |
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