喜樂美語
  1. 1rB2/ˈræpɪdli/迅速地；快速地

    very quickly — used most often about things that change, grow, or get better.

    示範例句 · Example

    Aisha got a cold on Monday, but she recovered rapidly.

    逐字艾莎星期一得了感冒，但是她迅速地康復了。

    「rapidly」的意思是「很快地」，但英文裡它特別常拿來講變化：成長、上升、擴大、傳開、變好。所以你會很常看到 growing rapidly、changing rapidly、spread rapidly。它跟 fast 分工很清楚：fast 多半講一個東西「跑得快、動得快」（He ran fast），rapidly 講的是「情況變得快」（The city is growing rapidly）。可以想成 rapidly 量的不是一個動作的速度，而是一條線往上衝的速度。

    常見搭配

    • grow rapidly

      快速成長

      to get bigger or greater very quickly

      Hana's sunflower grew rapidly all through the summer.

    • rapidly changing

      快速變化的

      changing very quickly, so it is hard to keep up

      We live in a rapidly changing world.

    • spread rapidly

      迅速傳開、快速蔓延

      to reach many people or places very quickly

      The song spread rapidly among the students.

    • rise rapidly

      快速上升

      to go up very quickly in number or amount

      The number of visitors rose rapidly after the new park opened.

    • expand rapidly

      迅速擴張

      to get much bigger very quickly

      The city expanded rapidly in the 1960s.

    • breathe rapidly

      呼吸急促

      to breathe quickly, for example after running

      Leo was breathing rapidly after the race.

    意思相近

    quicklyfastswiftlyspeedilybriskly

    意思相反

    slowlygradually

core核心畫面

Picture a line on a graph climbing — not a person moving fast, but a situation shifting fast. That is where this word likes to sit: with things that change, grow, spread, or improve. It measures the rate of change more than the speed of a body.

可以想成：圖表上一條陡陡往上爬的線——重點不是某個人跑得快，而是狀況變得快。rapidly 最喜歡待的地方比較像這裡：用在改變、成長、擴散、好轉這類事情上。它量的是「變化的速度」，而不是身體移動的速度，這一點和 quickly 的分工很值得記。

同家族的字

意思相近

quicklyfastswiftlyspeedilybriskly

意思相反

slowlygradually

原始詞典資料1 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。

rapidlyadv/ˈɹæpɪdli/

  • 1

    With speed; in a rapid manner.

    • She packed her case rapidly and hurried out.
    • We expressed our readiness, and in ten minutes were in the station wagon, rolling rapidly down the long drive, for it was then after nine. We passed on the way the van of the guests from Asquith.

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