alacrity

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /əˈlakrᵻti/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Eagerness; liveliness; enthusiasm. countable,uncountable
    — Besides, a wealthy man, well at ease, may pray to God quietly and merrily with alacrity and great quietness of mind, whereas he who lieth groaning in his grief cannot endure to pray nor can he hardly think upon anything but his pain.
  2. Promptness; speed. countable,uncountable
    — Governments show thus how successfully men can be imposed on, even impose on themselves, for their own advantage. […] Yet this government never of itself furthered any enterprise, but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way.

词形变化

alacrities plural

词汇关系

衍生词
alacritous alacritously
相关词
alacrify allegretto allegro

词源

Mid-15th century; from Middle English alacrite, from Latin alacritās, from alacer (“brisk”) + -itās (“-ity”).
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