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adj. 最快的

  1. He is the fastest runner we have; he runs like a deer.
    他是我们中间最快的赛跑运动员，他跑得像小鹿一样快。
  2. If we let the fastest runner make the pace the others will be left behind.
    如果我们让跑得最快的人领头跑，其他人就会跟不上。


fastest
[ adv ]
most quickly
<adv.all>


Fast \Fast\, a. [Compar. {Faster}; superl. {Fastest}.] [OE.,
firm, strong, not loose, AS. f[ae]st; akin to OS. fast, D.
vast, OHG. fasti, festi, G. fest, Icel. fastr, Sw. & Dan.
fast, and perh. to E. fetter. The sense swift comes from the
idea of keeping close to what is pursued; a Scandinavian use.
Cf. {Fast}, adv., {Fast}, v., {Avast}.]
1. Firmly fixed; closely adhering; made firm; not loose,
unstable, or easily moved; immovable; as, to make fast the
door.

There is an order that keeps things fast. --Burke.

2. Firm against attack; fortified by nature or art;
impregnable; strong.

Outlaws . . . lurking in woods and fast places.
--Spenser.

3. Firm in adherence; steadfast; not easily separated or
alienated; faithful; as, a fast friend.

4. Permanent; not liable to fade by exposure to air or by
washing; durable; lasting; as, fast colors.

5. Tenacious; retentive. [Obs.]

Roses, damask and red, are fast flowers of their
smells. --Bacon.

6. Not easily disturbed or broken; deep; sound.

All this while in a most fast sleep. --Shak.

7. Moving rapidly; quick in mition; rapid; swift; as, a fast
horse.

8. Given to pleasure seeking; disregardful of restraint;
reckless; wild; dissipated; dissolute; as, a fast man; a
fast liver. --Thackeray.

9. In such a condition, as to resilience, etc., as to make
possible unusual rapidity of play or action; as, a fast
racket, or tennis court; a fast track; a fast billiard
table, etc.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]

{Fast and loose}, now cohering, now disjoined; inconstant,
esp. in the phrases to play at fast and loose, to play
fast and loose, to act with giddy or reckless inconstancy
or in a tricky manner; to say one thing and do another.
``Play fast and loose with faith.'' --Shak.

{Fast and loose pulleys} (Mach.), two pulleys placed side by
side on a revolving shaft, which is driven from another
shaft by a band, and arranged to disengage and re["e]ngage
the machinery driven thereby. When the machinery is to be
stopped, the band is transferred from the pulley fixed to
the shaft to the pulley which revolves freely upon it, and
vice versa.

{Hard and fast} (Naut.), so completely aground as to be
immovable.

{To make fast} (Naut.), to make secure; to fasten firmly, as
a vessel, a rope, or a door.

  1. A sales tax increase appears to be the fastest and easiest to raise funds in a hurry.
  2. "This is the fastest growing area of the world.
  3. Low interest rates are the fastest affordable way, given actual or imagined constraints to fiscal action, to get there.
  4. Generics is one of the fastest growing segments of the pharmaceuticals business. Bayer is creating a joint venture with US generics specialist Schein.
  5. The company, which was near the top of Inc. magazine's list of fastest growing companies last year, had net income for the first quarter of $2.6 million, or 15 cents a share, on revenue of $141.8 million.
  6. Consultants said the new DPS 9000 appears to be nearly twice as fast as International Business Machines Corp.'s fastest single-processor computer.
  7. The cost of cleaning up the Exxon Valdez oil spill off the coast of Alaska helped give the state the fastest growing per capita income in the nation last year, the government said Wednesday.
  8. The company is the fastest growing among the world's 20 largest pharmaceutical companies.
  9. According to commission officials, the southern cone of South America is by far the fastest growing market for European exports.
  10. New-home sales shot up 8.4 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 734,000 units, the fastest sales rate in 16 months. Analysts credited renewed consumer confidence for the rebound in sales after a sluggish period earlier this spring.
  11. Those two states also should show the fastest growth rates in total personal income and population, the department said.
  12. The expenditure of $3 billion over three years for the fiber network and pre-tax quarterly losses of a quarter billion dollars easily make US Sprint the telephone industry's biggest, fastest start-up ever.
  13. Three other Western states _ Hawaii, Nevada and Washington _ and farm states North Dakota, Montana, South Dakota, Idaho and Iowa were among the 10 states with the fastest growing per capita incomes.
  14. "Barbie is red hot and Hot Wheels has emerged as one of the fastest selling toy lines in the country," says Paul Valentine of Standard & Poor's Corp., noting that parents always seem willing to pay a premium for the hottest toys.
  15. It seems likely that they will fall further. Unemployment, approaching 14 per cent, puts Plymouth into the top 20 economic blackspots in the country, and it has the fastest growing jobless rate of any big UK city.
  16. Personal incomes rose a healthy 0.7 percent in July, the best gain in four months, while consumer spending climbed at its fastest pace in three months, the government reported today.
  17. Sales of new homes, bolstered by falling mortgage rates, surged 14.4 percent in July, the fastest pace in nearly three years, the Commerce Department reported Tuesday.
  18. Cray is the world's largest supercomputer maker, but NEC threw America's long-term dominance of the industry into question in April when it announced it will introduce the world's fastest supercomputer next year.
  19. McDonald's fastest growing business, the foreign operations contributed 21% of the company's pre-tax profit last year, up from 14% in 1982.
  20. Wholesale prices soared 1.6 percent in September - an annual rate of more than 20 percent - as gasoline prices shot up at their fastest pace on record, the government said Friday.
  21. However, the GNP report showed that inflation picked up as well with a price index tied to the GNP rising by 4.2 percent last year, the fastest increase since a 6.2 percent rise in 1982.
  22. They tend to return her calls fastest when the Labour lead in the opinion polls is highest.
  23. Although Coca-Cola had been widely expected to plough most of the proceeds into its overseas business, its fastest growing soft-drink operation, analysts say they aren't worried about Coca-Cola's momentum abroad.
  24. Deposits flowed into savings institutions during the first three months of 1988 at the fastest rate since the fourth quarter of 1984.
  25. "Since I spent the least amount of time here, I was the fastest learner," Shepard said.
  26. All regions of California will post population gains of more than 20 percent by the year 2000 and Sacramento will be the fastest growing area, according to a new study.
  27. Neither Azteca nor subsidiaries has publicly traded stock. 'This is an intelligent way for Panamco to take a bigger stake in their fastest growing market,' said William Scovin, an analyst with Nomura, the brokerage.
  28. The first five-minute test for AIDS has been approved by the U.S. government, and authorities said it is 99.6 percent accurate and offers the fastest results of any tests for the deadly disease.
  29. FloJo, as the fastest woman in the world is better known, played herself in an episode taped Tuesday night for later telecast on NBC.
  30. They predict that continuing on the current course would send global temperatures up 5.4 degrees Fahrenheit by the end of the next century, the fastest rise in 10,000 years.
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