hasten

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has·ten /ˈheɪsən/ verb formal

1 [transitiveT]CAUSE to make something happen faster or sooner 加速，加紧

Their departure was hastened by an abnormally cold winter.

那个冬天异常寒冷，所以他们提前走了。

2 [intransitiveI]FAST/QUICK to do or say something quickly or without delay 抢着，急忙，赶快 SYN hurry

hasten to do something

I hastened to assure her that there was no danger.

我赶紧向她保证不会有什么危险。

3 I hasten to add formal EXPLAINused when you realize that what you have said may not have been understood correctly 我得赶紧补充说〔用于生怕别人误解的时候〕

an exhausting course, which, I hasten to add, was also great fun

一门让人学得筋疲力尽的课程，不过我得赶紧补充一句，也是非常有趣的

Examples from the Corpus

I hasten to add• Many of them built up vast fortunes under my father's regime, illegal fortunes, I hasten to add.• Metaphorically speaking, I hasten to add.• Not me, I hasten to add.• This wasn't me, I hasten to add, but the pill, which was based on belladonna.• I have, I hasten to add, no precise statistics on hand.• Not, I hasten to add, on account of my sweaty demeanour.• Not, I hasten to add, through fraud but through an error in part of the model.

4. [intransitiveI always + adverbadv/prepositionprep] literaryGO to go somewhere quickly 赶往

Examples from the Corpus

hasten• She hastened back into the corridor and slammed the door.• Change is hastened by the Reform Bill.• The agency hoped to hasten the approval process for new drugs.• The cilia in the respiratory tract hasten the exit from the body of possibly harmful foreign material.• I hasten to add that she was a business acquaintance, not a friend.• I have read from cover to cover with great interest, and now hasten to enclose my subscription.• Following his instruction, his party hastened to the windows.• There a servant hastened to them with water in a golden ewer which she poured over their fingers into a silver bowl.• We hastened toward shelter.

hasten to do something• I hasten to add that she was a business acquaintance, not a friend.• Many of them built up vast fortunes under my father's regime, illegal fortunes, I hasten to add.• Metaphorically speaking, I hasten to add.• This was not part of the display, i hasten to add!• Holy-o hastened to agree that it was.• But they hasten to point out that many spend them taking their charges to exotic educational destinations.• Nine-thirty to ten-thirty, stroll in St James's Park, having, I hasten to say, changed out of my uniform.• The page hastened to serve Alexei, his face expressionless.• Barbara hastened to tell him that she was all right.

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