| 单词 | speed |
| 释义 | speed I. 1. a. archaic b. archaic < send me good speed this day, and show kindness unto my master — Gen 24:12 (Authorized Version) > c. obsolete < now Hercules be thy speed, young man — Shakespeare > 2. a. < this is the day of speed, of the atom, of wanting to get to places before you start — W.J.MacQueen-Pope > < the animal escaped pursuit by speed rather than cunning > b. < a heavy person who moved at a glacial speed > < drove at a reckless speed > specifically < the car maintained a speed of 150 miles per hour > < a record made to be played at a speed of 33 1/3 revolutions per minute > c. < put all his speed into the attempt to reach the ball before it hit the ground > d. < set in motion an economic revival that gathered speed with the hastening sense of crisis — Oscar Handlin > 3. a. < as the minuteness of the parts formed a great hindrance to my speed, I resolved … to make the being of a gigantic stature — Mary W. Shelley > < a pastel sketch of flowers, full of life and speed — Adrian Bell > b. < trying to increase his reading speed > 4. a. b. c. 5. < shift to low speed > 6. a. < they need a new night watchman at the dam; that's about your speed — Elmer Davis > b. < bottled beer and a cigar are about their speed — A.J.Liebling > 7. of a baseball pitcher < has a good curve, but no speed > Synonyms: see haste • - at speed II. intransitive verb 1. a. < regarding the quality of the sheep the shepherds led, asking if the rams speeded — George Moore > b. < a forlorn hope at the best … I should like to know how you speed — Charles Dickens > 2. a. < the work sped on at a commendable rate until completed — I.M.Price > < his college years sped by — Alexander MacDonald > b. < ordered an automobile and sped directly to the village — H.F.Wilkins > < fighter planes which speed to intercept and identify — Lamp > c. < was speeding on the icy highway and the car skidded > specifically < speeded for a while but slowed down when he saw a police car > 3. < the heart speeds up and the blood pressure rises — H.G.Armstrong > < her embezzlements were speeding up — R.T.Moriarty > transitive verb 1. a. archaic < the Saxon bade God speed him — Sir Walter Scott > b. < two other things happened that sped the process — J.S.Martin > < increasing the supply of banknotes and speeding the inflationary trend — R.A.Billington > c. archaic 2. a. < sped our craft forward — Nora Waln > < he sped his pen to complete his treatises on government — U.B.Phillips > < a camaraderie which sped the evening hours away all too quickly — Gwen Allmon > b. (1) < some villager's departing soul was being ritually sped on its difficult road from earth to paradise — Arthur Grimble > < cops obligingly scattering traffic to speed us on our way — Bennett Cerf > (2) < speed the parting guest > c. < speeded up the engine > < speeded up production > 3. < sped arrows from their heavy war bows — F.V.W.Mason > < these short essays … sped with so intense a seriousness — Edmund Wilson > 4. a. archaic b. archaic 5. Synonyms: < bullets sped only a few feet over the Americans' heads — Dave Richardson > < poised to speed down the runway — Richard Thruelsen > is also generally used to emphasize the becoming rapid or the achievement of such rapidity as by acceleration or increasing efficiency < his heart speeded a little as he neared the cluster of tents — L.C.Douglas > < linked with fourteen miles of highway connections, it speeds traffic by shunting through-vehicles away from congested areas and carrying them swiftly across the boroughs — American Guide Series: New York City > accelerate emphasizes an increase in rate of motion or progress, not necessarily implying rapidity < accelerate your pace > < efforts to accelerate our technological progress — H.H.Curtice > < the development of the steamboat accelerated the stream of farm products flowing toward the South — American Guide Series: Ind. > quicken often adds to the idea of an increase in rapidity the notion of an increase in animation in the action, often also throwing stress upon the shortening of time consumed < how our steps quickened when we heard the exhilarating notes of the trumpets and drums — G.E.Fox > < the pace of discovery in geology has been quickened by applying the principles and techniques of modern physics — Scientific American Reader > hasten may add the notion of urgency or of an earlier or sometimes premature outcome < assembled a force of volunteers and … hastened to the relief of the village — American Guide Series: Minnesota > < as rapidly as physics and electronics are hastening the future — Time > hurry sometimes suggests the notion of a disturbing acceleration of pace and a consequent disorder in the activity or progress < hurry home after dark > < events which were hurrying the war to the close — H.E.Scudder > < the need for responsive action hurries us along and prevents us from ever realising fully what the emotion is that we feel — Roger Fry > precipitate implies usually an unexpectedly sudden or abrupt motion or progress < at that instant two animals precipitated against his calves, thereby nearly unbalancing him — John Buchan > < one of the bitter disputes was precipitated by the question of women's suffrage — American Guide Series: Tennessee > < the false charges that the radicals had maliciously precipitated the strike — Oscar Handlin > III. IV. • - up to speed |
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