hastening

英 [ˈheɪsnɪŋ]

美 [ˈheɪsnɪŋ]

v.  急忙进行; 赶紧说(或做); 促进; 使加快; 赶往(某地)
hasten的现在分词

柯林斯词典

• VERB 加速，加快（常指不愉快的事）
  If youhastenan event or process, often an unpleasant one, you make it happen faster or sooner.
  1. But if he does this, he may hasten the collapse of his own country.
     但是如果他这样做，就有可能加速自己国家的崩溃。
• VERB 急忙;赶快;赶紧
  If youhasten todo something, you are quick to do it.
  1. She more than anyone had hastened to sign the contract.
     她比谁都急着去签了合同。
• VERB （为避免他人误会）急忙（补充说）
  If youhasten tosay something, you quickly add something to what you have just said in order to prevent it being misunderstood.
  1. Naturally, it'll go back. But without Murray's little note, I hasten to add...
     很自然，它会返回。但没有默里的便条，我急忙补充道。
  2. 'There's no threat in this, Freddie,' Arnold hastened to say...
     “这不会有什么危险的，弗雷迪，”阿诺德急忙补充了一句。
  3. He hastened to assure me that there was nothing traumatic to report.
     他急忙向我保证没有什么不快的事情要说。
• VERB 赶往;赶去
  If youhastensomewhere, you hurry there.
  1. One of them, the first to alight, hastened with quicksilver steps towards me.
     他们中第一个下来的人急急忙忙地快步向我走来。

双语例句

• But analysts said thousands of smaller Chinese mills could be affected if the pricing agreement leads to higher spot prices, hastening consolidation in the steel industry.
  但分析师表示，如果定价协议导致现货价格走高，中国数千家小型钢铁企业将受到影响，这将加速钢铁行业的整合。
• For at the end of the third year mortal children began to outstrip the Elves, hastening on to a full stature while the Elves lingered in the first spring of childhood.
  从三岁末开始人类孩子的身材就会超过精灵，在他们飞快地长高长大的时候，精灵孩子依然留连于自己儿童时代的第一个春天中。
• Given the nature of21st-century warfare, there's not much to debate anymore about the importance of hastening the acquisition and deployment of information and communication technologies.
  考虑到21世纪战争的性质，关于加快信息和通信技术的采购和应用的重要性再无需赘言。
• They have, perhaps, some motive to serve in hastening the ruin of a rival firm.
  他们或许存心想加速一家敌对商行的垮台。
• Misfortunes never come singly. In the winter of more than two years ago, grandma died and father lost his job. I left Beijing for Xuzhou to join father in hastening home to attend grandmas funeral.
  那年冬天，祖母死了，父亲的差使也交卸了，正是祸不单行的日子，我从北京到徐州，打算跟着父亲奔丧回家。
• And as he walked he saw from afar men and women leaving their fields and their vineyards and hastening towards the city gates.
  当他行走着，他遥见男男女女离开他们的田地和葡萄园，匆匆走向城门去。
• The naked trees, black against the sky, with their delicate branches, were waiting for the spring, and it was just round the corner, hastening to meet them.
  光秃秃的乔木有着纤弱的枝条，在天空的映衬下显得黑黝黝的，它们在等待着春天，而春天就在转角了，急匆匆地赶来与它们相遇。
• Catherine ill?'he said, hastening to us.
  “凯瑟琳病啦？”他说，赶忙走过来。
• But I have not yet given up all hope of finding some way of hastening the approach of sleep.
  但我对能找到某种加速睡眠的方法没有完全放弃希望，还看到了一线希望。
• Until the hunters were recruited for the project, they brought back dead animals to their villages, hastening the spread of Ebola among people.
  在猎人们被这一项目招募之前，他们把因埃博拉出血热死亡的动物带回村庄，加速了疾病在人群中的传播。