| 单词 | haste |
| 释义 | haste I. 1. < out of breath from haste — Jane Austen > 2. < haste makes waste > < the beauty of speed uncontaminated by haste — Harper's > 3. < I feel no haste and no reluctance to depart — Edna S. V. Millay > Synonyms: < “Why this mad haste?” I asked. “Bandits,” he shouted. — W.O.Douglas > hurry may imply haste with confusion, agitation, and hustle < there was a great hurry in the streets, of people speeding away to get shelter before the storm broke — Charles Dickens > < for whom all these women worked with such a sense of frantic hurry — Winifred Bambrick > speed may focus attention on the fact of quickness, with very occasional implications of success < such developments are bound to increase the speed of the social and economic revolution — R.W.Steel > < accused of slowness and undue deliberation, yet he built an adequate navy from nothing with surprising speed — H.K.Beale > expedition and dispatch both designate efficient speed, the former with a suggestion of smooth efficiency, the latter of brisk promptness < to move with reasonable expedition along the narrow pavements of Rotting Hill is impossible — Wyndham Lewis > < proceed with great dispatch and arrest the people involved — Dean Acheson > II. transitive verb archaic < with our fair entreaties haste them on — Shakespeare > < haste thee, nymph, and bring with thee jest and youthful jollity — John Milton > intransitive verb < haste to correct a seeming impression — O.W.Holmes †1935 > < these minutes even now hasting into eternity — Winston Churchill > |
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