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单词 quicken
释义
quicken
verb[IorT]
uk
/ˈkwɪk.ən/us
/ˈkwɪk.ən/
tobecomequicker, or to make somethingbecomequicker:
（使）变快，（使）加速
This ismusicthat will makeyourpulsequicken.这是那种能让你脉搏加快的音乐。
We'll have to quicken thepaceif wewanttokeepup with him.我们要想赶上他的话就得加快速度。
literaryPeterwalkedin theroomand herheartquickened.彼得走进了房间，她的心跳加快了。
If afeelingorqualityquickens, itbecomesmoreactive, or to make afeelingorqualitydo this:
（情绪，素质）受到激发；激发（情绪，素质）
Hisinterestquickened when hesawher.当见到她时，他的兴致大增。
War quickensourawareness.战争使我们更加警觉。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Increasing and decreasing speed of motion
  • accelerant
  • accelerate
  • accelerating
  • acceleration
  • catch
  • catch(someone)up
  • dampener
  • downshift
  • foot
  • gas
  • gun
  • non-accelerating
  • retard
  • retardation
  • self-accelerating
  • slacken
  • slow
  • throttle(something)back/down
  • upshift
  • upshifting
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Increasing and intensifying
(Definition ofquickenfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

quicken| American Dictionary

quicken
verb[I/T]
us
/ˈkwɪk·ən/
tobecomeor makefasteror moreactive:
[I]Hispulsequickenedwhen hesawher.
[T]Computers havequickenedthepaceofcommunications.
(Definition ofquickenfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofquicken

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The ' quickening ' of local governance was exactly that : the consolidation of governance through local and central collusion.
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The pace gradually quickens and the rather sad start evolves into a highly animated and assertive scenario.
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The prose in it, heavy and awkward, clomps along, rarely quickened by an active verb, a concrete noun, or a vivid modifier.
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After 1973, the pace of varietal development quickened, with 14 new releases (eight durum, six bread wheat, by 1993).
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Symons styles himself as our surrogate observer, quickening his perception, concentrating on various surfaces, objects, and activities.
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As noted earlier, good-quality soil farmers with extra cash had similar outcomes, but on poor-quality soils, slightly higher cash endowments quickened the establishment of viable farms and increased deforestation.
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The pressure groups were thrown up as imperfect and transitional answers to novel imperatives, in a process which began in the 188os and quickened in the 1890s.
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From that moment, the pace quickened.
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The effort has got to be quickened, tightened; employers, managers, foremen, workmen, must put their backs into it, to save the country.
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Now that he is in his exuberant twenties the pace is quickening.
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There really has been a great quickening in the pace of change.
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I think that a quickened public conscience has made some of these cases of more news value than they used to be.
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The pace of collapse quickened in the last quarter of 1991: from 900 collapses a week to 995, or 199 business collapses each working day.
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Assets which are now largely sterilised are quickened and made liquid.
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The tempo of progress quickened with constitutional discussions held locally in 1963.
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