TOEFL TEM8 GRE
外刊例句
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- Brazil’s president, Jair Bolsonaro, is hastening the process—in the name, he claims, of development.
巴西总统博索纳罗正在加速这一进程——他声称这是为了发展。
——《经济学人》 - We doctors rarely inform them of this option, and even when we do, patients (and their families) are often reluctant to make a choice that may hasten death.
我们医生很少会告诉他们这种选择,即使我们这样做了,患者(及其家属)也常常不愿做出可能加速死亡的选择。
——《纽约时报》
- Brazil’s president, Jair Bolsonaro, is hastening the process—in the name, he claims, of development.
基本释义
[verb] cause (something) to happen sooner than it otherwise would
[动词] 使某事更快地发生
深入解读
相对于动词 hasten 而言,名词 haste (急速、匆忙、仓促)是一个更为熟悉的单词,比如常见成语“欲速则不达”在英语中常用“haste makes waste”或“more haste, less speed”表达。
欲速则不达这个普遍规律放在婚姻中也不例外,就此英语里还流传有下面这个专门的谚语表达:
- Marry in haste and repent at leisure.
草率结婚后悔多。
而 hasten 则是由 haste + en(使、使成为、变得)延伸而来,其基本含义即“急忙、赶快、赶紧(做某事)”或“匆忙赶往(某地)”,比如:
- 看到他皱起眉头,她赶紧解释。
She saw his frown and hastened to explain. - 急忙回家
hasten home
一旦忙了起来,事情发展的速度也就加快了,所以 hasten 又被引申用于表示“加速、加快、加紧(尤指某种不愉快的事)”,比如:
- 近期糟糕的业绩加速了经理的离职。
These recent poor results have hastened the manager's departure.
名人名言
People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.
人们为了不被他人评判所以急于评判他人。
出自法国小说家、哲学家、戏剧家、评论家阿尔贝·加缪(Albert Camus,1913年11月7日-1960年1月4日)。他于1957年获得诺贝尔文学奖,主要作品有《局外人》(The Stranger)、《鼠疫》(The Plague)等。
同近义词
- accelerate: (of a vehicle or other physical object) begin to move more quickly
- precipitate: cause (an event or situation, typically one that is bad or undesirable) to happen suddenly, unexpectedly, or prematurely
- expedite: make (an action or process) happen sooner or be accomplished more quickly