| 词汇 | quickening |
| 释义 | quickening present participle ofquicken 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 gun isolator non-accelerating pickup put your foot downidiom quicken retard speed (something) up spurt step on the gasidiom throttle (something) back/down upshift You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Increasing and intensifying Examples of quickeningquickening In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. The ' quickening ' of local governance was exactly that : the consolidation of governance through local and central collusion. The poetic stanzas change from quatrains to tercets to couplets, quickening the pace of the dialogue. A notable effect of a quarter century of market reforms is a quickening of the pace of life. They also stressed the importance of quickening the pace of circulation and of extending its reach through the construction of technological systems. Symons styles himself as our surrogate observer, quickening his perception, concentrating on various surfaces, objects, and activities. All were at least 20 weeks pregnant by dates and/or clinical examination and all had felt 'quickening'. There has been a quickening in the pace of the development of studying popular music in the past few years. These measures will see a quickening of the output of trained wireless fitters towards the end of this year. 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 The whole pace of change is quickening, and our ports are reacting to it. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Ever since then, there have been increasing signs of sustained and non-inflationary recovery, at first disappointingly slow but now unmistakeably quickening. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is therefore a quickening of discrimination and disadvantage in the way in which the rules are administered. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 But not only have public attitudes been changing; the pace of change has been quickening too. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It might have the effect of quickening his pace. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 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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