单词 | hastily |
释义 | hastily (once / 187 pages) adv When you do something hastily you rush through it in a hurried manner. If you write an essay hastily, don't expect an A. Haste is speed, so if you do something hastily, you're just doing it too fast. When a job should take time, like building a house, but it's done hastily, something often goes wrong. If you hastily leave the dinner table without explaining yourself, people will think you're rude. WORD FAMILYhasty: hastier, hastiest, hastily, hastiness, hastyly, overhasty+/haste: hastes, hasty/overhasty: overhastily USAGE EXAMPLESEven Sam Bradford, the protagonist in September as the new, hastily acquired quarterback, became almost an afterthought. Washington Times(Dec 28, 2016) George W Bush ran his from hastily requisitioned office space in Washington DC. The Guardian(Dec 24, 2016) Production was hastily bumped up at factories in China for both items, said co-chief executives Peter Tiger and Art Hirsch. Los Angeles Times(Dec 22, 2016) adv in a hurried or hasty manner hastily, he scanned the headlines Syn|Ant hurriedly, in haste unhurriedly without haste |
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