| 词汇 | quicken |
| 释义 | quicken verb[ I or T ] uk /ˈkwɪk.ən/ us /ˈkwɪk.ən/ to become quicker, or to make something become quicker: （使）变快，（使）加速 This is music that will make your pulse quicken.这是那种能让你脉搏加快的音乐。 We'll have to quicken the pace if we want to keep up with him.我们要想赶上他的话就得加快速度。 literaryPeter walked in the room and her heart quickened.彼得走进了房间，她的心跳加快了。 If a feeling or quality quickens, it becomes more active, or to make a feeling or quality do this: （情绪，素质）受到激发；激发（情绪，素质） His interest quickened when he saw her.当见到她时，他的兴致大增。 War quickens our awareness.战争使我们更加警觉。 Increasing and decreasing speed of motion accelerant accelerate accelerating acceleration accelerative brake catch catch (someone) up foot gun isolator non-accelerating pickup retard retardation spurt step on the gasidiom throttle (something) back/down upshift upshifting You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Increasing and intensifying quicken | American Dictionaryquicken verb[ I/T ] us/ˈkwɪk·ən/ to become or make faster or more active: [ I ]His pulse quickened when he saw her. [ T ]Computers have quickened the pace of communications. Examples of quickenquicken The ' quickening ' of local governance was exactly that : the consolidation of governance through local and central collusion. The pace gradually quickens and the rather sad start evolves into a highly animated and assertive scenario. The prose in it, heavy and awkward, clomps along, rarely quickened by an active verb, a concrete noun, or a vivid modifier. After 1973, the pace of varietal development quickened, with 14 new releases (eight durum, six bread wheat, by 1993). Symons styles himself as our surrogate observer, quickening his perception, concentrating on various surfaces, objects, and activities. As noted earlier, good-quality soil farmers with extra cash had similar outcomes, but on poor-quality soils, slightly higher cash endowments quickened the establishment of viable farms and increased deforestation. The pressure groups were thrown up as imperfect and transitional answers to novel imperatives, in a process which began in the 188os and quickened in the 1890s. From that moment, the pace quickened. The effort has got to be quickened, tightened; employers, managers, foremen, workmen, must put their backs into it, to save the country. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Now that he is in his exuberant twenties the pace is quickening. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There really has been a great quickening in the pace of change. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I think that a quickened public conscience has made some of these cases of more news value than they used to be. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The pace of collapse quickened in the last quarter of 1991: from 900 collapses a week to 995, or 199 business collapses each working day. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Assets which are now largely sterilised are quickened and made liquid. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The tempo of progress quickened with constitutional discussions held locally in 1963. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of quicken 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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