5.fast roadTTRa road on which vehicles can travel very quickly 快车道
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fast road• Wear a helmet, especially if using fast roads.• Gone is the wide fast road and its dangerous crossing, where the stripes gave walkers a false sense of security.• But at the summit there's a fast road down if you take yourself too seriously.
6.fast film/lensTCPa film or lens(2) that can be used when there is little light, or when photographing something that is moving very quickly 快速感光胶卷/快速镜头
8.sports 体育运动DSFAST/QUICK a fast surface is one on which a ball moves very quickly 〔球场场地〕利于球快速滚动的
9fast and furiousFAST/QUICKdone very quickly with a lot of effort and energy, or happening very quickly with a lot of sudden changes 迅猛的,迅速而剧烈的,迅速多变的
Arsenal’s opening attack was fast and furious.
阿森纳队的开场进攻很迅猛。
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fast and furious• The following round of questions for the President was fast and furious.• With elections about a year away, proposals for tax cuts are coming fast and furious.• From that point on, the primaries come fast and furious.• Word of what he done would spreadfast and furious among that club.• Inside the fence on the maincourt, the atmosphere is fast and furious and hot and colorful.• New labels and executive changes are coming fast and furious, including a new indie formed by Neil Young and his manager.• The drive from Dundalk was fast and furious, largely because Jessica was late.• Gatien won a fast and furious men's final over 17-21 21-14 17-21 21-18.• Play around the centrespot was fast and furious, though the ground was in totaldarkness everywhere else.• The work was fast and furious; working up in the top of buildings in January and February made this easy.
10.somebody is a fast workerinformalSUCCESSFUL used to say that someone can get what they want very quickly, especially in starting a sexualrelationship with another person 某人是个快手〔指能很快达到目的的人,尤指在确立两性关系时〕
11.fast talkerDISHONESTsomeone who talks quickly and easily but is often not honest or sincere 口齿伶俐但不一定可靠的人
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fast talker• Lenny Clarke is a fast talker, which might explain why he was torn between politics and comedy.
12woman 女性 old-fashionedSY becoming involved quickly in sexualrelationships with men 放荡的
fast cars and fast women
高速汽车和放荡的女人
13.fast friendsliteraryFRIENDLY two people who are very friendly for a long time 挚友
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fast friends• Ishmael and Queequeg become fast friends.• The two of them immediately became fast friends.• Within a few years they had become fast friends.• Other volunteers want to become fast friends and culturaladvisers.• The two become fast friends and Herbert gently and tactfully instructsPip in social behaviour appropriate for a gentleman.• They never, however, became hard and fast friends and there was an unspoken rivalry between them.
speedy [only before noun] happening after only a short time 迅速的
Everyone wishes you a speedy recovery.
大家都祝你早日康复。
a speedy resolution to the problem
迅速解决该问题的方案
hurried done more quickly than usual, because you do not have much time 匆忙的
She ate a hurried breakfast in the cafe before catching her train.
她在咖啡馆匆匆吃了早餐去赶火车。
We made a hurried departure.
我们匆匆出发了。
hastydeciding or doing something very quickly, especially when this has bad results 仓促的
It was a hasty decision, which he later regretted.
这是个仓促的决定,他过后很懊悔。
Let’s not be too hasty.
我们不要过于仓促。
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fast• Is it really 6:45, or is my watch fast?• The new convertible is fast and fun to drive.• The first pitch was fast and hard.• Boeing's new plane is faster and more luxurious than anything else they have ever produced.• Some in disbelief that a car so beautiful, so fast and so downright delicious could cost as little as £27,000.• Despite its size, the buffalo is a very fast animal and can run up to thirty-five miles per hour.• But I am not as fast as he is.• When I was a kid, I was the fastestboy in my class.• Dean always lovedfast cars and expensive clothes.• Other volunteers want to become fast friends and culturaladvisers.• Nevertheless, when moralconsiderations made a fastimperative, his body had no veto.• I'm a prettyfastreader.• We hope Arlene will make a fastrecovery.• One man's fastresponsesaved a heart-attack victim's life.• I keep the clock five minutesfast, so I won't be late.• Rosa caught the fast train to London.• Training for speed must work repeatedly on the fasttwitchfibres on a stop - go basis.
2SHORT TIMEin a short time 在短时间内 happening in a short time 不久,立即
Kids grow up fast these days.
如今小孩子长得很快。
The survivors needed help fast.
生还者急需帮助。
How fast can you get the job done?
你多快能把工作做完?
fast becoming/disappearing/approaching etc
Access to the Internet is fast becoming a necessity.
能够上网不久将变成必需。
It all happened so fast I didn’t even notice I was bleeding.
一切发生得太快,我甚至还没发觉自己在流血。
3fast asleepSLEEPsleeping very deeply 熟睡的,酣睡的
Nick was lying on the sofa, fast asleep.
尼克躺在沙发上睡得很香。
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fast asleep• Most of the household was still fast asleep.• Midnight approaches, and those not on duty are fast asleep.• She would have been fast asleep already, but for the Admiral's early-morning call.• She went back as she had come, fast asleep and docile, her face expressionless.• He had intended to visit Meryl, who was probably fast asleep by now.• Bless him, he was fast asleep on the sofa.• When her husband was fast asleep she must leave the bed, light the lamp, and get the knife.• He lay fast asleep, surrounded by flames and smoke.• The second time around, Stafford was fast asleep, wedged in between two large blondbusinessmen.
4be stuck/held fastMOVE something OR somebodyto become or be firmly fixed and unable to move 被紧紧夹住,被紧紧粘住
The boat was stuck fast in the mud.
船死死地陷在淤泥里。
She tried to pull her hand free, but it was held fast.
她想把手抽出来,但是被紧紧地夹住了。
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be stuck/held fast• She tried to pull her hand free, but it was held fast.• She tried to struggle, but she was held fast.• Balor was struggling and writhing, but his limbswere held fast and only his thick, shapeless body could move.• A character who is held fast can not move or fight, and is treated as prone.• Persephone sprang into her arms and was held fast there.
5be getting/be going nowhere fastinformalSUCCEED IN DOING something to not succeed in making progress or achieving something 失败;不成功;无成就
I kept asking her the same question, but I was getting nowhere fast.
我一直追问那个问题,但是一无所获。
6not so fastspokenNOW used to tell someone not to be too eager to do or believe something 不要那么快,慢点,别急
Not so fast. We’ve got to prove it first, haven’t we?
fast• At which Stour realised suddenly that he was the one who must act, and fast.• The growth of the plants from tubercles treated in this manner is then very fast.• The tinydeviceshocks the heart into normalrhythm when it beats too fast.• Burglars work fast.• She walked faster and faster, then started to run.• He ran home as fast as he could.• He must complete his mission and leave as fast as possible.• The new fighteraircraftflies almost twice as fast as the old one.• They ran off as fast as their legs would carry them.• Prices aren't rising as fast as they were a year ago.• We're working as fast as we can.• The sparetyre on the back of the Jeep was held fast by three strong bolts.• It felt too fast for me.• a fast-growing community• Don't talk so fast - I can't understand what you're saying.• The front of the boat was stuckfast in the mud.• Don't drive so fast - there's ice on the road.• The car was going pretty fast when it went off the road.
as fast as ... legs could carry• I ignored his command and took off after him, racing along as fast as my legs could carry me.
fast becoming/disappearing/approaching etc• It takes an intellectually open environment and an entrepreneurial edge to produce the kind of place that Bangalore is fast becoming.• She was, of course, keenly interested in cinema, and her White House filmfestival was fast approaching.• The prospect of censureintensified what, for Galileo, was fast becoming a dilemma.• These historicopportunities are fast disappearing for our community.• The hedge was fast approaching, looking too big, far too big for Buttons to jump on his own.• It's hard to believe, but we're fast approaching the dessert hour.• Snapshots and consumerimagery were fast becoming two sides of the same coin.• This familiarity, this friendliness of science is fast disappearing under the banner of standardisation.
fast3 verb [intransitiveI]
EATto eat little or no food for a period of time, especially for religiousreasons 〔尤因宗教原因而〕禁食,斋戒
Muslims fast during Ramadan.
穆斯林在斋月里禁食。
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fast• They fasted for a further 2 hours, after which they were allowed normal food and fluidintake.• He would need to fast, to recuperate, to change, before he would be ready to take her.
fast4 noun [countableC]
EATa period during which someone does not eat, especially for religious reasons 禁食期,斋戒期
Gandhi drank some orange juice to break (=end) his three-week fast.
甘地喝了些橙汁,结束了为期三周的禁食。
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fast• a one-day fast for charity• At the end of their fast, the people have a big party to celebrate.• As almost everyone except himself perfectly understood, these fasts were a ruthlessexploitation of the power of his own sanctity.
break ... fast• Break your fast and pack our bags.• In the morning, immediately after break. fast, he would be at the public mortuary doing the post-mortem.• The speed at which things wear out and break down rises fast when everything you own is cheap.• After they had broken their fast he gave Aeneas the advice he had come to seek.• Keyes said he would not break his fast until he was invited to participate in subsequentcandidatedebates.• The breaking of the fast, called iftar, usually begins with a snack of dates and milk or water.• The songs were then sung, and Gandhi drank some orangejuice to break the three-week fast.• He was always smiling and greeted us most amicably as we broke our fast in the great hall.