As he passes, all hats are raised with alacrity. 他经过时,所有的人都举帽致敬。
Such books we read with resignation rather than with alacrity. 这样的书我们是无可奈何地而不是轻松愉快地去读的。
alacrity
[ noun ] liveliness and eagerness <noun.attribute> he accepted with alacritythe smartness of the pace soon exhausted him
Alacrity \A*lac"ri*ty\, n. [L. alacritas, fr. alacer lively, eager, prob. akin to Gr. ? to drive, Goth. aljan zeal.] A cheerful readiness, willingness, or promptitude; joyous activity; briskness; sprightliness; as, the soldiers advanced with alacrity to meet the enemy.
I have not that alacrity of spirit, Nor cheer of mind that I was wont to have. --Shak.
Those who say Congress used to run with alacrity and efficiency are revisionists; the Founding Fathers didn't intend it that way, and they rarely would have been surprised.
Although my private theory is that we could construct our own Pompidou Center out of all the rusting bicycle tubing on exercise cycles ordered from catalogs, then dispatched with alacrity to the garage-wasteland, still in their cartons.
Dancing bears who move with the alacrity of humans are the stars of the Moscow Circus, which launched a 15-city North American tour in Toronto.
But recently a notion somehow has developed that the economy now will alter course or speed with alacrity, more in the manner of our small outboard motorboat than any supertanker.