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单词 precipitately
释义
precipitately
adverb
formal
uk
/prɪˈsɪp.ɪ.tət.li/us
/priːˈsɪp.ə.t̬ɪt.li/
in a way that is toosuddenand done withoutthinking:
贸然地，轻率地
Scientists areannoyedthat theresearchprogrammehas beenabandonedso precipitately.研究计划如此草率地就被取消了，科学家们很恼火。
Synonyms
hastily
headlong
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Doing things without fear or proper thought
  • bravado
  • carpe diem
  • daredevil
  • desperado
  • devil-may-care
  • hotheadedly
  • hotheadedness
  • impetuous
  • impetuously
  • impetuousness
  • like lemmingsidiom
  • like there is/was no tomorrowidiom
  • precipitate
  • rashness
  • reckless
  • recklessly
  • tomorrow
  • trigger-happy
  • unafraid
  • with no thought forsomethingidiom
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Hurrying and doing things quickly
(Definition ofprecipitatelyfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofprecipitately

precipitately
Immediately their front legs entered the region of the vapour the ticksprecipitatelyretired and without exception avoided it.
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If some of the contractors feel he acted tooprecipitately, then they have their civil court rights.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
His star was in the ascendant, but now it has descended veryprecipitatelybelow the horizon.
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Then came decontrol, much tooprecipitatelyand without adequate notice.
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I would add that indiscretion is the greater part of squalor, and we should be immensely careful not to actprecipitately.
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All that sense of a latent, indefinable strength in the background isprecipitatelyand incontinently swept away.
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There would also be the inevitable tendency for a certain type of motorist to pull awayprecipitatelyand without adequate warning from a parked position.
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Criticisms were made today about actingprecipitately—acting too quickly or too slowly are both accusations that have been made over the past few weeks.
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We would do great harm to our export trade if we movedprecipitately.
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Now one may perhaps expect to see them fall, perhapsprecipitately.
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I suspect that at present the closure of homes is occurring moreprecipitatelythan is good for the children.
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Clearly, there are some who believe that it is not necessary to actprecipitatelyin this area.
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Negotiations are going on, and, if we had actedprecipitately, we should have been questioned on that ground.
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That is the direct effect of the financial policy which artificially andprecipitatelyraised our exchange in order to return to the gold standard.
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Children are barely settled in one school before they areprecipitatelymoved to another.
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