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

• Catherine ill?'he said, hastening to us.
  “凯瑟琳病啦？”他说，赶忙走过来。
• Grief and disappointment are hastening his death.
  悲哀和失望加速他的死亡。
• The fact that small economies depend on trade strengthens the forces for growth, by hastening the demise of unproductive businesses.
  小型经济体依赖于贸易的事实，加速了生产效率低下企业的灭亡，从而提高了增长的动力。
• 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。
• 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。
• Her spirit seemed hastening to live within a very brief span as much as many live during a protracted existence. We recall in special times when we have stood briefly, but magnificently, united;
  她的心灵似乎要匆匆地在短暂的片刻时间内生活得象别人在漫长的一生中一样。我们可以回想起一些特殊的时刻，我们短暂地但很出色地团结在一起。
• 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。
• They are hastening the event they dread.
  他们正在催促自己害怕的时刻更快到来。
• And as he walked he saw from afar men and women leaving their fields and their vineyards and hastening towards the city gates.
  当他行走着，他遥见男男女女离开他们的田地和葡萄园，匆匆走向城门去。
• The global financial crisis is hastening the birth of a new technological and industrial revolution.
  国际金融危机正在催生新的科技革命和产业革命。