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 hasten ['heisn]   添加此单词到默认生词本
vt. 催促, 加紧

vi. 赶快, 急忙


  1. She hastened home after hearing the news.
    听到这个消息后,她匆匆忙忙地回家。
  2. Some of our staff are to be dismissed, but I hasten to add you won't be among them.
    有些职员要被解雇,不过请放心,你不在此列。
  3. Do not hasten to bid me adieu.
    不要告别得那样匆忙。


hasten


Hasten \Has"ten\ (h[=a]s"'n), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Hastened}
(h[=a]s"'nd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Hastening}
(h[=a]s"'n*[i^]ng).]
To press; to drive or urge forward; to push on; to
precipitate; to accelerate the movement of; to expedite; to
hurry.

I would hasten my escape from the windy storm. --Ps.
lv. 8.


Hasten \Has"ten\, v. i.
To move with celerity; to be rapid in motion; to act speedily
or quickly; to go quickly.

I hastened to the spot whence the noise came. --De Foe.

  1. "Anticrastinators don't even see the flowers." Anticrastinators hasten to disagree.
  2. Researchers hope that treating pavement surfaces with microwave-absorbing materials will make them warm up faster and hasten the melting.
  3. In a conciliatory speech at the United Nations yesterday, South Korean President Roh Tae Woo called repeatedly for steps to hasten a "springtime for peace and reconciliation on the Korean peninsula."
  4. Worried about encirclement by pro-Soviet countries, including Cambodia, China's highest priority is to hasten Vietnam's withdrawal from that country by assisting the Khmer Rouge.
  5. The sour atmosphere of a family squabble does not help a sale. Do not hasten to tell your neighbours: so says Andrew Smith, of national agent Strutt & Parker.
  6. Fewer than 50 homes remain, but a precise number is difficult to determine as residents hasten to take apart the houses to move them elsewhere.
  7. Zaillian knows when to hasten his story with montage sequences, pasting-and-scissoring whole weeks or months in speedy scrapbooks of images.
  8. Business had complained that notifying employees in such cases would hasten the closing by driving away customers or creditors.
  9. Thus, according to the English-language China Daily, party and government officials recently decided that "conglomerates in charge of supply, production and sales" would be established to hasten large-scale mechanization.
  10. We suffer from a decline in what Keynes called the "animal spirits." Inevitably, we suppose, a wave of layoffs will feed the same angst that did so much to produce or hasten them.
  11. This makes an eastern EC enlargement simply too costly for EC taxpayers and farmers until the CEEC's get richer or present EC members more generous, he argues. Joining Efta, however, would hasten the CEEC's entry into the Community.
  12. John W. Vessey, reached agreement to hasten cooperation on the MIA issue.
  13. He must always be ready to grovel before one of its committees. He cannot do much more to hasten the end of the recession.
  14. The proposal is based on recent legislation that reclassfied Amerasians as immigrants rather than refugees, a change likely to hasten resettlement.
  15. The court arguments are legal ones, but they focus on the wider issue of whether dealing with the PLO can hasten peace or only give credibility to what the government considers a terrorist organization bent on Israel's destruction.
  16. Before the critics rush in to declare that Bush's America is not Philip IV's Spain, let me hasten to agree with them; of course it is different, just as every nation and century are different.
  17. Marketing and packaging expenses are often far more significant for those manufacturers higher up the added value chain. Nevertheless, food price reform should hasten the long-term trends shaping the industry.
  18. But the ability to market a product earlier will reduce total expenses and hasten the trek to profits, he says.
  19. "Having noted that, I hasten my deep personal conviction that it need not affect the quality of my ministry among you nor the nature of our relationship with each other," he said, prompting prolonged applause.
  20. Though the drop doesn't bode well for the economy, it may hasten the decline of the inventory of unsold homes.
  21. In the aftermath of labor unrest this past spring, the government is moving to hasten economic reform, increase supplies of consumer goods and legalize some independent groups in hopes of heading off more outbursts.
  22. Many analysts think Chrysler's first-quarter earnings may have improved, but they hasten to add that isn't saying much.
  23. But he does believe that Europe should hasten to reach international agreement on standards so that they do not get whittled down by competition among countries keen to reduce their costs.
  24. The West made a new proposal Thursday on reducing conventional arms in Europe, acting two months ahead of schedule in an attempt to hasten agreement.
  25. Accelerating monetary growth, many economists are convinced, can hasten economic growth.
  26. The documents indicate Noriega was behind a series of small explosions in the old U.S.-controlled Canal Zone during 1976, when Panama was trying to hasten negotiations with the United States over the canal.
  27. It would also hasten the arrival of PS/2 accessories that would make IBM's new models and their knockoffs more useful, and so draw more customers into the market.
  28. And does captivity ensure a species' survival or hasten its death? "I believe animals are here for our use, but not our abuse," says Hoctor. "There's nothing wrong with owning a pair of ostrich boots if we're culling ostrich males.
  29. The Finance Ministry decided last week to hasten by more than two months the implementation of the Revised Securities Exchange Law, which gives authorities power for tighter surveillance and control and allows for criminal punishment for insider trading.
  30. Paul Yost, who was sent by President Bush to hasten the cleanup.
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