| 单词 | hasty |
| 释义 | hasty (heɪsti ) Word forms: hastier , hastiest 1. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun] A hasty movement, action, or statement is sudden, and often done in reaction to something that has just happened. He started screaming insults so I made a hasty escape. hastily (heɪstɪli ) adverb [ADVERB with verb] 'It may be satisfying, but it's not fun.'—'No, I'm sure it's not,' said Virginia hastily. 'I didn't mean that.' Synonyms: quickly, fast, rapidly, promptly 2. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun] A hasty event or action is one that is completed more quickly than normal. After the hasty meal, the men had moved forward to take up their positions. Synonyms: brief, short, quick, passing hastily adverb [ADVERB with verb] He said good night hastily, promising that he would phone Hans in the morning. The survivors were recovering in hastily erected tents. Synonyms: quickly, fast, rapidly, promptly 3. adjective If you describe a person or their behaviour as hasty, you mean that they are acting too quickly, without thinking carefully, for example because they are angry. [disapproval] So let's not be hasty. After all, he can't run away. A number of the United States' allies had urged him not to take a hasty decision. hastily adverb [ADVERB with verb] I decided that nothing should be done hastily, that things had to be sorted out carefully. Synonyms: quickly, fast, rapidly, promptly Synonyms: hurriedly, rashly, precipitately, recklessly Collocations: hasty judgment The leader writers thought that an immediate response to so momentous an event risked hasty judgment. Times, Sunday Times But that could be a hasty judgment. Times, Sunday Times This was the first international event of the track season and hasty judgments will not be made. Times, Sunday Times There will be an investigation that everyone will tell you ought not to be pre-empted, and the outcome of which we should await before making any hasty judgments. Times, Sunday Times However, his desire to read everything indiscriminately sometimes led him to hasty judgments, which appear in his manuscripts. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Nor their determination to beat a hasty retreat downstairs for a cup of tea and a halal meat pie. The Sun (2010) Do I enter the loo to push the button for them or beat a hasty retreat? Times, Sunday Times (2008) I beat a very hasty retreat and the committee pretended that they hadn't seen anything. Times, Sunday Times (2013) I then spotted him in the corner and beat a hasty retreat. The Sun (2009) We beat a hasty retreat to the nearby town of Petersfield. Times, Sunday Times (2013) Translations: Chinese: 匆忙的 Japanese: 慌ただしい |
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