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单词 rapidly
释义
rapidly
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adv

When you do something rapidly, you do it very quickly. A rapidly moving train is going at full speed.
You may notice that the grass in your yard grows rapidly during the rainy summer days and more slowly when there's a heat wave. You might also get a speeding ticket for driving too rapidly in a school zone. In either case, something's happening fast. The adverb rapidly comes from the adjective rapid, "moving quickly," with the Latin root rapidus, "hasty, swift, fierce, or impetuous."
WORD FAMILY
rapid: rapidity, rapidly, rapidness, rapids+/rapidity: rapidities
USAGE EXAMPLES
Though rivers along the Gulf Coast were rising rapidly Monday, only minor flooding was predicted.
New York Times(Jan 02, 2017)
In a rapidly changing climate, they may get it.
New York Times(Jan 02, 2017)
It rapidly became the source of conventional left-liberal wisdom on the treaty.
The Guardian(Jan 02, 2017)
adv with rapid movements
Syn|Ant
apace, chop-chop, quickly, speedily
easy, slow, slowly, tardily
without speed (`slow' is sometimes used informally for `slowly')
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