hasten

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To move or act in a quick fashion. intransitive
  2. To make someone speed up or make something happen quicker. transitive
    — I would hasten my escape from the windy storm.
  3. To cause some scheduled event to happen earlier. transitive
    — The decision to hasten completion of the electrification of London Midland Region main lines from Euston to the north and the subsequent diversion of some traffic to the Western Region in order to allow the engineers fuller track occupation, have focused attention on the two main routes between London, Birmingham and Wolverhampton.

词形变化

hastens present,singular,third-person hastening participle,present hastened participle,past hastened past

词汇关系

近义词
race quicken speed up rush zoom
衍生词
hastener outhasten overhasten overhastened unhastened unhastening
相关词
haste

词源

Originally intransitive, from haste + -en (verbal suffix).
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