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 rapid ['ræpid]   添加此单词到默认生词本
a. 迅速的, 飞快的, 急促的, 陡的

n. 急流

[经] 快的, 迅速的




    rapid
    [ noun ]
    1. a part of a river where the current is very fast

      2. <noun.object>
    [ adj ]
    1. done or occurring in a brief period of time

      2. <adj.all>
      a rapid rise through the ranks
    2. characterized by speed; moving with or capable of moving with high speed

      3. <adj.all>
      a rapid movement
      a speedy car
      a speedy errand boy


    Rapid \Rap"id\ (r[a^]p"[i^]d), a. [L. rapidus, fr. rapere to
    seize and carry off, to snatch or hurry away; perhaps akin to
    Gr. 'arpa`zein: cf. F. rapide. Cf. {Harpy}, {Ravish}.]
    1. Very swift or quick; moving with celerity; fast; as, a
    rapid stream; a rapid flight; a rapid motion.

    Ascend my chariot; guide the rapid wheels. --Milton.

    2. Advancing with haste or speed; speedy in progression; in
    quick sequence; as, rapid growth; rapid improvement; rapid
    recurrence; rapid succession.

    3. Quick in execution; as, a rapid penman.


    Rapid \Rap"id\, n. [Cf. F. rapide. See {Rapid}, a.]
    The part of a river where the current moves with great
    swiftness, but without actual waterfall or cascade; sometimes
    called {whitewater}; -- usually used in the plural; as, the
    Lachine rapids in the St. Lawrence.
    [1913 Webster +PJC]

    Row, brothers, row, the stream runs fast,
    The rapids are near, and the daylight's past. --Moore.

    1. And Germans in both east and west have accepted the inevitability of a rapid unification since the Berlin Wall opened Nov. 9.
    2. Though the subject lies dormant now, there are more than 200 communities with some form of residential rent controls, most adopted during periods of rapid general inflation in the 1970s, and most in the Northeast and California.
    3. For all industry participants, keeping pace with rapid change will be essential to success.
    4. And if not, have they found anything else to embrace instead?' says one analyst. The market has already come through a period of rapid development.
    5. The rapid rise in wages since 1988 means it can no longer compete as a low-cost manufacturing centre.
    6. And nothing would prove that as much as a rapid reduction in Salomon's balance sheet through sales of securities.
    7. It has ruled out pledges for extra spending on training, infrastructure and industrial support policies. Mr Clarke reconvened EDX early in an effort to push through a rapid endorsement by the full cabinet of another tough spending round.
    8. Exports of U.S. yogurt are showing the same rapid growth as ice cream, said Young and Verdonk.
    9. Once there is an upturn in the weak US market we expect a rapid improvement in profitability', he says. He is equally adamant that the purchase of Deutsche Versicherungs is justifiable over the long term.
    10. He gives no indication of the extent to which he has imbibed the need to retain - or to put in place - the totems of the radicals: in particular a tight credit policy and rapid privatisation.
    11. Other applications for such beams would include high-speed X-ray photography, welding, studying the effects of rapid heating and simulating the effects of nuclear bursts, the scientists said.
    12. The 1980s saw rapid growth in employment reflecting both the coming of age of baby-boomers and the entry of women into the labour force.
    13. But the effect of the statistic quickly faded as investors refocused attention on rapid developments in the Persian Gulf, where a showdown loomed between U.S. and Iraqi forces over Iraq's seizure of Kuwait on Aug. 2.
    14. Cubans would be encouraged to exchange foreign currency for the new peso, thus putting more of the hard currency in the country under official control. The government has been increasingly concerned at the rapid devaluation of the existing peso.
    15. Shell Oil said unusually rapid corrosion in an eight-inch pipe led to the May 5 explosion at a Louisiana refinery that killed seven and sharply curtailed the company's operations.
    16. MBB was added to a rapid succession of technology and aerospace acquisitions in 1985, when AEG AG, MTU and Dornier were taken aboard.
    17. But the big factor in border employment appears to be the rapid expansion of the "maquila" industry.
    18. He recently discovered a forgotten treasure in Danson House, Bexley, which needs rapid attention.
    19. According to Virgin Chairman Richard Branson, the arrangement also opens the opportunity for substantial record sales in the Far East, where "the market is growing and expanding at an extremely rapid rate."
    20. French officials have depicted themselves as in the middle regarding sanctions against South Africa, with Britain on one side favoring the rapid lifting of sanctions while Denmark and the Netherlands oppose any easing of restrictions now.
    21. The Swiss Banking Commission said the rapid expansion of Swiss banks' investment funds outside Switzerland raised troubling questions about their motives, and it urged the Finance Ministry to examine the trend.
    22. IBM expanded rapidly in the early 1980s but has been cutting back since 1985, when it became apparent that the industry's rapid 15 percent annual growth was slowing.
    23. Her voice sometimes rising in anger, she described his rapid physical decay and his way of slipping into isolation.
    24. "We do expect to make rapid progress." Mr. Jones declined to specify the type of securities that will be sold or indicate a specific timetable.
    25. Langberg hopes to use radio waves to slow rather than cut the cardiac electrical connection that causes rapid heartbeats, allowing certain patients to do without pacemakers.
    26. Traders say the trend will continue, fueled by rapid growth in U.S. dollar deposits overseas and intense competition among lenders to provide low-cost financing to corporate and institutional borrowers.
    27. It is also noteworthy that of the four spectacularly successful Asian dragons - Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan - only South Korea relied heavily on foreign private capital to finance its rapid economic growth.
    28. In addition, they note, market history shows that even concrete signs of peace in the making don't automatically translate into a rapid increase in stock prices.
    29. The party, renamed the Party of Democratic Socialism, cautioned that rapid reunification would hurt East Germany.
    30. The rest must come from government or agency business. Even accounting for the later start, Bankers Trust has not matched Morgan's rapid ascent up Wall Street's underwriting ladder.
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