喜樂美語
  1. 1匆忙；in haste 匆忙地；haste makes waste 欲速則不達

    Haste means doing something in a hurry, faster than is careful or comfortable. You'll often meet it in the phrase 'in haste' — done quickly, without enough thought — and in the well-known saying 'haste makes waste', meaning if you rush too much, you end up making mistakes that cost you more time in the end.

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組成Related to 'hasty' and 'hasten'.

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  • hastyhaste is the noun, hasty is the adjective — both are about doing something too fast
  • hastenhasten is the verb form, meaning to hurry

原始詞典資料5 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

Hastename

  • 1

    A surname from Old French.

hastenoun/heɪst/

  • 1

    Speed; swiftness; dispatch.

    • We were running late so we finished our meal in haste.
    • The king's business required haste.
  • 2

    obsoleteUrgency; sudden excitement of feeling or passion; precipitance; vehemence.

    • I said in my haste, All men are liars.

hasteverb/heɪst/

  • 1

    archaicTo urge onward; to hasten.

    • Baſſ. You may doe ſo, but let it be ſo haſted that ſupper be readie at the fartheſt by fiue of the clocke.
  • 2

    archaicTo move with haste.

    • The city is amaz'd, for Sylla hastes / To enter Rome with fury, sword and fire.
    • He hastes away to another, whom his affairs have called to a distant place, and, having seen the empty house, goes away disgusted by a disappointment which could not be intended, because it could not be foreseen.

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