whizz
verb[I+ adv/prep]
UKinformal(USusuallywhiz);(USalsowiz)uk/wɪz/us/wɪz/tomoveor do something veryfast:
快速移动;很快地做Apolicecarwhizzedby, onitsway to theaccident.一辆警车飞速驶过,开往事故现场。
We whizzedthroughtherehearsal, so that we'd befinishedbylunchtime.我们赶紧进行排演,以便能在午饭之前结束。
Time just whizzespastwhen you'reenjoyingyourself.当你在纵情享乐的时候,时间总是转眼即逝。
Moving quickly
- agility
- beetle
- bowl down/alongsomething
- buzz
- careen
- career
- fluent
- gun
- outsail
- pelt
- rush
- scamper
- scoot
- scrabble
- scramble
- scud
- shoot
- stampede
- ton
- trot
whizz
noun
UKuk/wɪz/us/wɪz/whizznoun(EXPERT)
[Cusually singular]informal approving(USusuallywhiz)
apersonwith a very highlevelofskillorknowledgein aparticularsubject:
能手;奇才;高手acomputerwhizz计算机高手
He's a whizzatpoker.他是个扑克牌高手。
Synonym
hotshotmainlyUSinformal
an intelligent person
- geniusThe system must have been designed by a mathematical genius.
- prodigyHe was something of a prodigy on the piano.
- child prodigyShe was labelled as a child prodigy by her early teachers.
- eggheadThe eggheads at the University have been working on this for years.
- brainsThe well-known comedian is the brains behind the new sitcom.
- whizz-kidUKThey hired some uni whizz-kid to lead the firm.
Experts and specialists
- academician
- artist
- authority
- boffin
- child prodigy
- doyen
- doyenne
- historiographer
- hotshot
- knowsomethinginside outidiom
- lapidary
- literati
- pundit
- pyrotechnician
- Renaissance man
- savant
- semiotician
- wizard
- wonder
- wunderkind
whizznoun(DRUG)
[U]
slangforamphetamine(= adrugthat makes themindandbodymoreactive)
苯丙胺;安非他明Specific types of drug
- addictive
- alprazolam
- amnesiac
- amyl nitrite
- anaphrodisiac
- anti-AIDS
- anti-aphrodisiac
- aphrodisiac
- barbiturate
- caffeine
- designer drug
- gas and air
- GHB
- hallucinogen
- khat
- legal high
- LSD
- MDMA
- psychedelic
- smack