| 词汇 | hasten |
| 释义 | hasten verb formaluk /ˈheɪ.sən/ us /ˈheɪ.sən/ [ T ] to make something happen sooner or more quickly: 加快，加紧 There is little doubt that poor medical treatment hastened her death.毫无疑问，糟糕的治疗加速了她的死亡。 These recent poor results have hastened the manager's departure.近期糟糕的业绩加速了经理的离职。 [ + to infinitive ] If you hasten to do something, you quickly do it: 赶快，赶紧（做） The president hastened to reassure his people that he was in perfect health.总统立即解释说他的身体状况非常好，让他的国民放心。 [ + adv/prep ] If you hasten somewhere, you go there quickly: Reporters hastened from the press conference to call their editors. From her office on the first floor, she hastened upstairs to speak to her boss. hasten to add, say, point out, etc. to emphasize that you want to make something clear: This was my own money that I was using, I hasten to add. Hurrying and doing things quickly accelerate acceleration against the clockidiom against time/the clockidiom alacrity dash get a wiggle onidiom grab-and-go grease hacky haste prompt promptness quickie rattle something off rattle through something rush into something snap stroke tear You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Moving quickly hasten | American Dictionaryhasten verb us/ˈheɪ·sən/ to hurry, or to make something go or happen faster: [ + to infinitive ]They didn’t get what they were after – thanks to you, I hasten to add. [ T ]To hasten softening, place the cream cheese in the oven for a few minutes. Examples of hastenhasten Morning light treatment hastens the antidepressant effect of citalopram : a placebo-controlled trial. The items have face validity in assessing a spectrum of wishes, through to requests for hastened death. The patients were under the care of an urban cancer research center, and each had expressed, at least once, a desire f or hastened death. The results suggest that improvement in depression moderated the severity of desire for hastened death in a population of patients with cancer pain. The visitation of the plague only hastened an outcome which was inevitable. Both improvements in yield and management hastened the adoption of hybrid technologies. Thus, a male child delayed the timing of the next birth while a female child hastened the timing of the next birth. Subsequent legislation varied the conditions, but the essential requirement of fencing remained, thus hastening the spread of fences, and the end of shepherding. Hundreds of other carriages, crowded with their thousands of men, were hastening to the great city. In the debate about physician-assisted death it is the adult patient who voluntarily asks either to be allowed to die or to have death actively hastened. The wider political context hastened this process. Since the regeneration is largely controlled by man, is it possible to derive better strategies to shorten the non-productive phase by hastening the growth of the juveniles? Circulation was formulated not only as a need to ameliorate the movement of traffic through the city, but as a means of separating what hastened and what impeded such movement. Indeed, in the case of the community policing project, disagreements led to rank-and-file resistance and to disillusion among many inhabitants, a combination that hastened its demise. The schedule of attitudes toward hastened death. See all examples of hasten These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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