| 单词 | haste |
| 释义 | haste (heɪst ) 1. uncountable noun Haste is the quality of doing something quickly, sometimes too quickly so that you are careless and make mistakes. In their haste to escape the rising water, they dropped some expensive equipment. The translations bear the signs of inaccuracy and haste. 2. in haste phrase If you do something in haste, you do it quickly and hurriedly, and sometimes carelessly. Don't act in haste or be hot-headed. Synonyms: hastily, rashly, too quickly, impetuously 3. make haste phrase [VERB inflects] If someone is told to make haste, they are told to do something quickly and not waste time. [old-fashioned] As Simon was under orders to make haste, some days they covered thirty miles. Synonyms: hurry (up), speed up, hasten, get a move on [informal] Quotations: More haste, less speed Make haste slowly (Latin festina lente) Collocations: indecent haste My father was killed in a border raid when I was only a year old, and my mother remarried with something close to indecent haste. TREASON KEEP (2001) Winter seems to have arrived with indecent haste this week, in a blast of snow, ice and frost. Times, Sunday Times (2008) But let us not move with too indecent haste from one challenge to the next. Times, Sunday Times (2016) Football moves on with almost indecent haste. Times, Sunday Times (2007) There was no hint of undue haste. The Sun Football keeps trying to 'move forward' with undue haste when some proper reflection might bring some useful lessons. Times, Sunday Times Carelessness and undue haste could cost him dear. Times, Sunday Times I have been failed for undue caution, undue haste, failure to reverse around a corner (twice), failure to reverse bay park and driving too slowly. Times, Sunday Times Translations: Chinese: 仓促 Japanese: 慌てること |
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