| 单词 | rapidly |
| 释义 | rapidly (once / 104 pages) 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 FAMILYrapid: rapidity, rapidly, rapidness, rapids+/rapidity: rapidities USAGE EXAMPLESThough 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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