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单词 hasten
释义
hasten
verb
formal
uk
/ˈheɪ.sən/us
/ˈheɪ.sən/
[T]
to make somethinghappensooneror morequickly:
加快，加紧
There is littledoubtthatpoormedicaltreatmenthastened herdeath.毫无疑问，糟糕的治疗加速了她的死亡。
Theserecentpoorresultshave hastened the manager'sdeparture.近期糟糕的业绩加速了经理的离职。
[+ to infinitive]
If you hasten to do something, youquicklydo it:
赶快，赶紧（做）
Thepresidenthastened toreassurehispeoplethat he was inperfecthealth.总统立即解释说他的身体状况非常好，让他的国民放心。
[+ to infinitive]
If you hasten to say something, youwantto make itclear:
急忙说（或澄清）
It was anunfortunatedecisionand I hastentosay it had nothing to do with me.那是个令人遗憾的决定，我急忙表示那与我没有关系。
"People around heredresssobadly- except you, Justin," she hastenedtoadd.“这儿的人穿得真不像样——除你之外，贾斯廷。”她急忙加了一句。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Hurrying and doing things quickly
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  • acceleration
  • against the clockidiom
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  • alacrity
  • dash
  • get a wiggle onidiom
  • grab-and-go
  • grease
  • hacky
  • haste
  • prompt
  • promptly
  • promptness
  • quickie
  • rattlesomethingoff
  • rattle throughsomething
  • snap
  • stroke
  • tear
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(Definition ofhastenfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

hasten| American Dictionary

hasten
verb
us
/ˈheɪ·sən/
tohurry, or to make something go orhappenfaster:
[+ to infinitive]They didn’t get what they were after –thanksto you, I hasten toadd.
[T]To hastensoftening,placethecreamcheesein theovenfor a fewminutes.
(Definition ofhastenfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofhasten

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Morning light treatment hastens the antidepressant effect of citalopram : a placebo-controlled trial.
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The items have face validity in assessing a spectrum of wishes, through to requests for hastened death.
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The patients were under the care of an urban cancer research center, and each had expressed, at least once, a desire f or hastened death.
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The results suggest that improvement in depression moderated the severity of desire for hastened death in a population of patients with cancer pain.
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The visitation of the plague only hastened an outcome which was inevitable.
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Both improvements in yield and management hastened the adoption of hybrid technologies.
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Thus, a male child delayed the timing of the next birth while a female child hastened the timing of the next birth.
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Subsequent legislation varied the conditions, but the essential requirement of fencing remained, thus hastening the spread of fences, and the end of shepherding.
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Hundreds of other carriages, crowded with their thousands of men, were hastening to the great city.
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In the debate about physician-assisted death it is the adult patient who voluntarily asks either to be allowed to die or to have death actively hastened.
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The wider political context hastened this process.
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Since the regeneration is largely controlled by man, is it possible to derive better strategies to shorten the non-productive phase by hastening the growth of the juveniles?
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Circulation was formulated not only as a need to ameliorate the movement of traffic through the city, but as a means of separating what hastened and what impeded such movement.
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Indeed, in the case of the community policing project, disagreements led to rank-and-file resistance and to disillusion among many inhabitants, a combination that hastened its demise.
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The schedule of attitudes toward hastened death.
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