Some school officials are only now getting up to speed regarding computers.
有些学校官员在计算机方面现在才刚刚跟上形势。
John will bring you up to speed (=tell you the latest information).
约翰将会为你介绍最新情况。
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bring ... up to speed• It took the company a year to bring them up to speed.• To bring consumers up to speed, telephone companies are revving up educationcampaigns.
at a speed of• At room temperature, atoms normally fly around at speeds of hundreds or thousands of miles per hour.• Local-area networkstransmitting data at speeds of between 10 megabits per second and 100 megabits per second also exist.• Birds of prey have been registered nose-diving at speeds of up to 1 l 0 miles an hour.• They drove several miles at speeds of up to a hundred and twenty miles an hour.• The force proceededsoutheastat a speed of 18 knots, zigzagging at intervals of five to ten minutes. 2.• A pea-sized projectile is hurtled into a targetat speeds of up to sixteen thousand miles an hour.• Objects from space hit the Earth all the time-at speeds of more than 10 miles a second.• Shaun Gooch had turned his car into Akers Way at speeds of around eighty miles an hour.
at speed• The train was already travellingat speed when she tried to open the carriage door.
speed2 ●○○ verb (past tensepst and past participleppsped /sped/ or speeded)
1[intransitiveI always + adverbadv/prepositionprep]FAST/QUICK to go quickly 快行,疾走
The car sped along the dusty highway.
汽车在尘土飞扬的公路上疾驰。
2[transitiveT always + adverbadv/prepositionprep]FAST/QUICK to take someone or something somewhere very quickly 快速运送
An ambulance sped her to the hospital.
一辆救护车把她快速送往医院。
3be speedingSCCSPEEDto be driving faster than the legallimit 超速驾驶
I got caught speeding on the A40 yesterday.
昨天我在 A40 号干线公路上超速行驶被逮到。
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caught speeding• Those visitors paid $ 769,000 last year after they were caught speeding.• In the meantime, motoristscaught speeding through the contraflow can expect to receive a court summons in the post.• If the Duke had been caught speedingtoday ... his fine would probably have been something like seven hundred pounds.
4 (also speed something ↔ up) [transitiveT] to make something happen faster 加快,促进OPP slow down
This news should speed his recovery.
这个消息应该会加快他的康复速度。
5speed byphrasal verbphr vFAST/QUICKif time speeds by, it seems to pass very quickly 〔时间〕很快地过去,飞逝
The weeks sped by and soon it was time to go back to school.
几个星期转眼过去,很快又要开学了。
6speed upphrasal verbphr vFAST/QUICKto move or happenfaster, or to make something move or happen faster (使)加快速度OPP slow down
The truck speeded up going down the hill.
卡车在下山时加快了速度。
speed something ↔ up
The new system will speed up the registration process.
这个新系统将加快注册过程。
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speed up• I'll phone the manager and get them to speed things up.• The company announced they're speeding upplans to expand the site.• Nancy, if you don't speed up we'll be here until midnight.
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speed• She also wants the Legislature to increase penalties for drivers who speed in school zones.• This could speed the spread of labeling.• The changing nature of the corporationspeeded this along.• To speed up publication the presentations have been used unaltered so the book lacks a coherentstyle or structure.• He says that the technique has meant they can speed up research time, helping to stay ahead of the field.• Now, inexplicably, just as he was about to reach his goal, things had suddenly speeded up.• With warming temperatures, the life cyclespeeds up.• People visibly speeding will also get reported and residents will occasionally be joined by officers.