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

• 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 ever the hastening of infantry shifting positions, batteries.
  不断地催促步兵团换防易站，换装填。
• And gathering her work together, she was hastening away, when Elizabeth called out, Dear Ma'am, do not go.
  她把针线收拾了一下，便匆匆忙忙走开了，这时伊丽莎白叫起来了：亲爱的妈，别走。
• He had, by this time, reached his dwelling, on the edge of the burial-ground, and, hastening up the stairs, took refuge in his study.
  此时，他已走到坟场边上的住所，正在匆忙地踏上楼梯，躲进他的书斋中去一避。
• Until the hunters were recruited for the project, they brought back dead animals to their villages, hastening the spread of Ebola among people.
  在猎人们被这一项目招募之前，他们把因埃博拉出血热死亡的动物带回村庄，加速了疾病在人群中的传播。
• Certainly there is no place for them on the streets swarming with cars or on the sidewalks thronged with people hastening on their way.
  在挤满汽车的大街上，或在人群匆匆赶路的人行道上，肯定没有儿童活动的余地。
• 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。
• They were married, married in town, and now hastening down to her uncle's.
  他们结婚了，在城里结的婚，而现在正急急忙忙地去她叔叔那儿。
• Misfortunes never come singly. In the winter of more than two years ago, grandma died and father lost his job. I left Beijing for Xuzhou to join father in hastening home to attend grandmas funeral.
  那年冬天，祖母死了，父亲的差使也交卸了，正是祸不单行的日子，我从北京到徐州，打算跟着父亲奔丧回家。
• 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。