| 单词 | haste |
| 释义 | haste /heɪst/ ●○○ noun [uncountable] 1 HURRYgreat speed in doing something, especially because you do not have enough time 匆忙，仓促 SYN hurry I soon regretted my haste. 我很快就对自己的仓促感到后悔。in your haste to do something In his haste to leave, he forgot his briefcase. 他走得很匆忙，忘了带公文包。 RegisterIn everyday English, people usually say hurry rather than haste: 在日常英语中，人们一般说hurry，而不说hasteIn my hurry, I left my coat behind. 我匆匆忙忙的，忘了拿外套。2 in haste HURRY written or formal quickly or in a hurry 匆忙地，急忙地 They left in haste, without even saying goodbye. 他们走得很匆忙，连再见都没说。3. make haste old useHURRY to hurry or do something quickly 赶紧，连忙4. more haste less speed British English, haste makes waste American EnglishHURRY used to say that it is better to do something slowly, because if you do it too quickly you will make mistakes 欲速则不达Examples from the Corpushaste• She scaled its steep side in breathless haste.• Here haste not only wastes, it kills.• They were on the run, and in haste, or we should all be dead men.• I had to write in haste.• More haste, less speed, Madam!• Complex negotiations followed, in an atmosphere of haste, as Reagan would take office on January 20.• There was a trickle of traffic, now, and she overtook the sleepy drivers with an almost reckless haste.• But who comes in such haste in riding-robes?in your haste to do something• Callinicos, in his haste to counter aestheticism, reduces the aesthetic.• Maybe I was blotting out my past, as provincials do, in my haste to get to where the action was.• Then she rushed back towards the stairs, almost falling in her haste to get back to the ground floor.• He shrugged out of his jacket and her hands went to his cotton shirt, fumbling in their haste to undo the buttons.• The vultures eat greedily, fighting over scraps, slipping off the rock in their haste to consume.Origin haste (1200-1300) Old Frenchhaste noun →REGISTER1Chinese something, Corpus especially great speed in doing because |
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