hastening

英 [ˈheɪsnɪŋ]

美 [ˈheɪsnɪŋ]

v.  急忙进行; 赶紧说(或做); 促进; 使加快; 赶往(某地)
hasten的现在分词

柯林斯词典

• VERB 加速，加快（常指不愉快的事）
  If youhastenan event or process, often an unpleasant one, you make it happen faster or sooner.
  1. But if he does this, he may hasten the collapse of his own country.
     但是如果他这样做，就有可能加速自己国家的崩溃。
• VERB 急忙;赶快;赶紧
  If youhasten todo something, you are quick to do it.
  1. She more than anyone had hastened to sign the contract.
     她比谁都急着去签了合同。
• VERB （为避免他人误会）急忙（补充说）
  If youhasten tosay something, you quickly add something to what you have just said in order to prevent it being misunderstood.
  1. Naturally, it'll go back. But without Murray's little note, I hasten to add...
     很自然，它会返回。但没有默里的便条，我急忙补充道。
  2. 'There's no threat in this, Freddie,' Arnold hastened to say...
     “这不会有什么危险的，弗雷迪，”阿诺德急忙补充了一句。
  3. He hastened to assure me that there was nothing traumatic to report.
     他急忙向我保证没有什么不快的事情要说。
• VERB 赶往;赶去
  If youhastensomewhere, you hurry there.
  1. One of them, the first to alight, hastened with quicksilver steps towards me.
     他们中第一个下来的人急急忙忙地快步向我走来。

双语例句

• He had, by this time, reached his dwelling, on the edge of the burial-ground, and, hastening up the stairs, took refuge in his study.
  此时，他已走到坟场边上的住所，正在匆忙地踏上楼梯，躲进他的书斋中去一避。
• The naked trees, black against the sky, with their delicate branches, were waiting for the spring, and it was just round the corner, hastening to meet them.
  光秃秃的乔木有着纤弱的枝条，在天空的映衬下显得黑黝黝的，它们在等待着春天，而春天就在转角了，急匆匆地赶来与它们相遇。
• Grief and disappointment are hastening his death.
  悲哀和失望加速他的死亡。
• Until the hunters were recruited for the project, they brought back dead animals to their villages, hastening the spread of Ebola among people.
  在猎人们被这一项目招募之前，他们把因埃博拉出血热死亡的动物带回村庄，加速了疾病在人群中的传播。
• Misfortunes never come singly. In the winter of more than two years ago, grandma died and father lost his job. I left Beijing for Xuzhou to join father in hastening home to attend grandmas funeral.
  那年冬天，祖母死了，父亲的差使也交卸了，正是祸不单行的日子，我从北京到徐州，打算跟着父亲奔丧回家。
• They were married, married in town, and now hastening down to her uncle's.
  他们结婚了，在城里结的婚，而现在正急急忙忙地去她叔叔那儿。
• You heroes are ever flatterers, returned fulvia, hastening to appropriate the compliment specially to herself.
  你们英雄总是拍马奉承的能手，福尔维亚忙不迭地把这句恭维话当作特别为她而说的。
• Catherine ill?'he said, hastening to us.
  “凯瑟琳病啦？”他说，赶忙走过来。
• But I have not yet given up all hope of finding some way of hastening the approach of sleep.
  但我对能找到某种加速睡眠的方法没有完全放弃希望，还看到了一线希望。
• It may be that as temperatures rise, more water will evaporate, hastening its turnover in the atmosphere.
  因为跟着气温的升高，更多的水会蒸发失踪，加速了其在年夜气中的轮回。