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n. 急速, 迅速, 速度



    quickness
    [ noun ]
    1. skillful performance or ability without difficulty

    2. <noun.cognition>
      his quick adeptness was a product of good design
      he was famous for his facility as an archer
    3. intelligence as revealed by an ability to give correct responses without delay

    4. <noun.cognition>
    5. a rate that is rapid

    6. <noun.attribute>


    Quickness \Quick"ness\, n.
    1. The condition or quality of being quick or living; life.
    [Obs.]

    Touch it with thy celestial quickness. --Herbert.

    2. Activity; briskness; especially, rapidity of motion;
    speed; celerity; as, quickness of wit.

    This deed . . . must send thee hence
    With fiery quickness. --Shak.

    His mind had, indeed, great quickness and vigor. --
    Macaulay.

    3. Acuteness of perception; keen sensibility.

    Would not quickness of sensation be an inconvenience
    to an animal that must lie still ? --Locke

    4. Sharpness; pungency of taste. --Mortimer.

    Syn: Velocity; celerity; rapidity; speed; haste; expedition;
    promptness; dispatch; swiftness; nimbleness; fleetness;
    agility; briskness; liveliness; readiness; sagacity;
    shrewdness; shrewdness; sharpness; keenness.

    1. Though an animal of surprising quickness and speed, the buffalo has never been as challenging as, say, whitetail deer.
    2. For his part, Judge Souter is a Harvard Law School graduate and former Rhodes Scholar, and he is lauded by New Hampshire lawyers for his keen legal mind and his quickness in oral arguments.
    3. People interpret the quickness as being aggressive."
    4. And she suggests that compensatory skills are developed in body and mind to make up for loss of quickness or dexterity.
    5. President Bush's quickness in dealing with the savings and loan crisis, which is felt most acutely in Texas, met with praise Monday from several of the state's troubled thrifts.
    6. At 41, the next vice president is an ardent conservative who is praised by some for his quickness and derided by others as a lightweight whose best assets are his blond good looks and capacity to charm.
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