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单词 headlong
释义
headlong
adverb,adjective
uk
/ˈhed.lɒŋ/us
/ˈhed.lɑːŋ/
[before noun]
withgreatspeedor withoutthinking:
速度很快地；轻率地
Thecarskiddedandplungedheadlong over thecliff.汽车一打滑，从悬崖上冲了下去。
In the headlongrushtobuyhouses, manypeoplegot intodebt.在一窝蜂的购房热潮中，很多人都负了债。
US
→head-first
（同 head-first）
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Fast and rapid
  • (at) full speed/tilt/peltidiom
  • apace
  • as fast asyourlegs would carryyouidiom
  • as ifit isgoing out of styleidiom
  • at a rate of knotsidiom
  • fleet
  • in the twinkling of an eyeidiom
  • Jack Robinson
  • lickety-split
  • lightning
  • like a shotidiom
  • like a streak of lightningidiom
  • prompt
  • souped-up
  • spread like wildfireidiom
  • streak
  • super-express
  • superfast
  • swift
  • wildfire
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Falling and dropping
(Definition ofheadlongfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

headlong| American Dictionary

headlong
adjective,adverb[not gradable]
us
/ˈhedˈlɔŋ/
veryquickorquicklywithoutconsideringwhat you are doing:
When youbreakup with someone, thetemptationis torushheadlong into a newrelationship.
Headlong alsomeansmovingforwardwithyourheadfirst:
a headlongplungeinto thelake
(Definition ofheadlongfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofheadlong

headlong
My wife stayed the night and rushed home the next morning for some clothes,headlong, still in shock.
From theCambridge English Corpus
For, if grace is withdrawn, a human being falls, no longer standing upright, but castheadlongby free choice.
From theCambridge English Corpus
But these developments have yet to result in aheadlongdash by liberal intellectuals for religious alternatives.
From theCambridge English Corpus
It would not be our first step to rushheadlonginto the quest for recognition.
From theCambridge English Corpus
In theirheadlongrush for rents, their lack of a product or regional base introduced widespread vulnerabilities.
From theCambridge English Corpus
I am like a child in a children's book who has stumbled through a gap in reality and fallenheadlonginto another world.
From theCambridge English Corpus
The findings of the present article suggest a further note of caution even to those who have rushedheadlonginto the pie production business.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Before fallingheadlonginto the evolutionary future of the post-human, it is worth looking at how science fiction operates.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Rising to the 100,000 mark by 1950, the city witnessed another decade of rapid growth to reach 180,000 people before runningheadlonginto environmental disaster.
From theCambridge English Corpus
He should overcome his prejudices and cowardice, call off thisheadlongpush over the precipice and call an immediate ballot.
From the
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
He also made a comment about theheadlongrush of the bulldozers to the site last year.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
Anybody who questions thisheadlongrush to disclosure is pointed out as a conspirator, a plotter, a concealer, an enemy of the people.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
Moreover, we are also supposed to go further in theheadlongflight towards federalism.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
I am worried that there is aheadlongrush towards a system that will be immutable and which we shall regret over a millennium.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
Instead of being given time to assess the outcome, we were rushed by our partnersheadlonginto a new, untried system of a single currency.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
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