haste
haste 英 [heɪst] 美 [heɪst]
n. 匆忙；急忙；轻率 v. 匆忙；赶紧
名词复数:hastes
- When something is done in haste, it's done fast, and often with carelessness. In his haste to finish the paper, he didn't notice he had replaced "taste" with "waste" during spell-checking, so his title became "Foods of Our Home State: What a Waste!"
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- n. 匆忙；急忙；轻率
- v. 匆忙；赶紧
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1. In my haste I forgot to lock the door.
我匆忙中忘了锁门。
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2. He left home in haste.
他匆忙地离开了家。
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3. The letter had clearly been written in haste.
这封信明显是在匆忙中写的。
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4. She made haste to open the door.
她急忙打开门。
- haste (n.) late 13c., "hurrying, haste; celerity, swiftness, speed;" c. 1300, "need for quick action, urgency;" from Old French haste "haste, urgency, hastiness" (12c., Modern French hâte), from Frankish *haifst "violence" or another Germanic source, from Proto-Germanic *haifstiz (source also of Gothic haifsts "strife," Old English hæste "violent, vehement, impetuous"). From late 14c. as "undue haste, rashness, unwise or unseemly quickness." To make haste "act quickly" is recorded by 1530s.
- haste (v.) late 13c., from Old French haster "hurry, make haste; urge, hurry along" (Modern French hâter), from haste "haste, urgency" (see haste). Now largely superseded by hasten (1560s). Related: Hasted; hasting.
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