| 单词 | haste |
| 释义 | haste (once / 79 pages) n When something is done in haste, it's done fast, and often with carelessness. In his haste to finish the paper, he didn't notice he had replaced "taste" with "waste" during spell-checking, so his title became "Foods of Our Home State: What a Waste!" The old saying goes "haste makes waste," and when you try to do things too quickly, sometimes you do them wrong or have to do them all over again. You can use the noun haste for things done with extraordinary speed and often in a situation where there's pressure to perform or complete a task. "In her haste to catch the train she ran six blocks, but when she boarded, she noticed she was wearing one blue tennis shoe and one red one." WORD FAMILYhaste: hastes, hasty+/hasty: hastier, hastiest, hastily, hastiness, hastyly, overhasty/overhasty: overhastily USAGE EXAMPLESBut he added that Russia would not act "in haste" and alluded to the upcoming change at the helm of the US. BBC(Dec 29, 2016) “Haste is universal because everyone is in flight from himself.” The Guardian(Dec 22, 2016) So far, Indians are depositing their money in the banking system with impressive haste. Economist(Dec 01, 2016) 1n overly eager speed (and possible carelessness) he soon regretted his haste Syn|Hypo|Hyper hastiness, hurriedness, hurry, 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 2n a condition of urgency making it necessary to hurry Syn|Hyper hurry urgency the state of being urgent; an earnest and insistent necessity 3n the act of moving hurriedly and in a careless manner in his haste to leave he forgot his book Syn|Hypo|Hyper hurry, 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 |
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