Quick
[kwɪk]
解释:
(noun.) any area of the body that is highly sensitive to pain (as the flesh underneath the skin or a fingernail or toenail).
(adj.) easily aroused or excited; 'a quick temper'; 'a warm temper' .
(adj.) accomplished rapidly and without delay; 'was quick to make friends'; 'his quick reaction prevented an accident'; 'hoped for a speedy resolution of the problem'; 'a speedy recovery'; 'he has a right to a speedy trial' .
(adj.) apprehending and responding with speed and sensitivity; 'a quick mind'; 'a ready wit' .
伯纳黛特校对--From WordNet
解释:
(superl.) Alive; living; animate; -- opposed to dead or inanimate.
(superl.) Characterized by life or liveliness; animated; sprightly; agile; brisk; ready.
(superl.) Speedy; hasty; swift; not slow; as, be quick.
(superl.) Impatient; passionate; hasty; eager; eager; sharp; unceremonious; as, a quick temper.
(superl.) Fresh; bracing; sharp; keen.
(superl.) Sensitive; perceptive in a high degree; ready; as, a quick ear.
(superl.) Pregnant; with child.
(adv.) In a quick manner; quickly; promptly; rapidly; with haste; speedily; without delay; as, run quick; get back quick.
(n.) That which is quick, or alive; a living animal or plant; especially, the hawthorn, or other plants used in making a living hedge.
(n.) The life; the mortal point; a vital part; a part susceptible of serious injury or keen feeling; the sensitive living flesh; the part of a finger or toe to which the nail is attached; the tender emotions; as, to cut a finger nail to the quick; to thrust a sword to the quick, to taunt one to the quick; -- used figuratively.
(n.) Quitch grass.
(v. t. & i.) To revive; to quicken; to be or become alive.
整理:帕斯夸里
同义词及近义词:
a. [1]. Active, nimble, agile, alert, brisk, prompt, ready.[2]. Rapid, swift, speedy, fleet, hasty, expeditious, hurried, flying.[3]. Dexterous, adroit, skilful, expert, apt.[4]. Acute, clever, sharp, shrewd, keen, intelligent, sagacious, discerning.[5]. Hasty, choleric, passionate, testy, irritable, touchy, waspish, petulant, irascible, peppery, snappish.
ad. Quickly.
编辑:思朋斯
同义词及反义词:
SYN:Fast, rapid, speedy, expeditious, swift, hasty, prompt, ready, clever, sharp,shrewd, adroit, keen, fleet, active, brisk, nimble, lively, agile, alert,sprightly, transient, intelligent, irascible
ANT:Slow, tardy, sluggish, inert, inactive, dull, insensitive
编辑:马丁
解释:
adj. living: lively: speedy: nimble: ready: sensitive: hasty: pregnant: active piercing.—adv. without delay: rapidly: soon.—n. a living animal or plant: the living: the living flesh: the sensitive parts: a hedge of some growing plant quickset.—adj. Quick′-an′swered (Shak.) quick at giving an answer.—n. Quick′beam the mountain-ash or rowan.—adj. Quick′-conceiv′ing quick at conceiving or understanding.—v.t. Quick′en to make quick or alive: to revive: to reinvigorate: to cheer: to excite: to sharpen: to hasten.—v.i. to become alive: to move with activity.—n. the couch or quitch-grass.—ns. Quick′ener one who or that which reinvigorates; Quick′ening the period in pregnancy when the mother first becomes conscious of the movement of the child—from the sixteenth or seventeenth week onwards.—adj. Quick′-eyed having acute sight.—ns. Quick′-grass=Quitch-grass; Quick′-hedge a hedge of living plants; Quick′lime recently burnt lime caustic and unslaked: carbonate of lime without its carbonic acid.—adv. Quick′ly.—ns. Quick′march (same as Quick′step); Quick′match (see Match); Quick′ness; Quick′sand a movable sandbank in a sea lake &c. any large mass of sand saturated with water often dangerous to travellers: anything treacherous.—adj. Quick′-scent′ed having a keen scent.—n. Quick′set a living plant set to grow for a hedge particularly the hawthorn.—adj. consisting of living plants.—adj. Quick′-sight′ed having quick or sharp sight: quick in discernment.—ns. Quick′-sight′edness sharpness of sight or discernment; Quick′silver the common name for fluid mercury so called from its great mobility and its silvery colour.—v.t. to overlay or to treat with quicksilver.—adj. Quick′silvered.—ns. Quick′silvering the mercury on the back of a mirror; Quick′step a march in quick time: (mus.) a march written in military quick time.—adj. Quick′-tem′pered irascible.—n. Quick′-wa′ter a solution of nitrates of mercury and of gold for water-gilding.—adj. Quick′-wit′ted having ready wit.—ns. Quick′-wit′tedness; Quick′-work the part of a ship under water when laden: the part of the inner upper-works of a ship above the covering board: the short planks worked inside between the ports: spirketting.—Some quick (Spens.) something alive.
整理:苏西
例句:
- You know, I'm a stranger here, so perhaps I'm not so quick at understanding what you mean as if I'd lived all my life at Milton. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
- I'm quick to take this fright, I know, and my head is summ'at light with wearying and watching. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- Her rich colour, her quick blood, her rapid breath, were all setting themselves against the opportunity of retracing their steps. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- I had always rather a noticing way--not a quick way, oh, no! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- Much relieved when the two hours were at last accomplished, he went away at a quick pace, as a recompense for so much loitering. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
- Tuscaloosa, Montgomery and West Point fell in quick succession. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U.S.格兰特的个人回忆录.
- The bottle and jug were again produced, and he mixed a weak draught, and another, and drank both in quick succession. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- If he is quick enough to catch his bird, well and good. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
- When she reached the door she turned for a moment to wave a quick farewell. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
- The whole family were quick, brisk, loud-talking, kind-hearted, and not troubled with much delicacy of perception. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
- Women are certainly quicker in some things than men. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- It was only when I had joined him there that I heard what had alarmed his quicker senses. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
- As we looked full at one another, I felt my breath come quicker in my strong desire to get something out of him. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
- The more there is of it, the more it produces every turning, so that the profits rise quicker and quicker. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
- Her usually quiet breathing had grown quicker with his words. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- It was found cheaper and superior to either coal or charcoal, and produced a quicker fire and a greater heat. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- Bar Comas had much the better of the battle as he was stronger, quicker and more intelligent. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- It was lower and quicker than ever! 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
- In my time at Oxford, the men passed round the bottle a little quicker than you young fellows seem to do. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- She was pleased with the eagerness to arrive which had made him alter his plan, and travel earlier, later, and quicker, that he might gain half a day. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
- Every few weeks thou dost bring in twelve or more books, written in half the time it takes our quickest scribe to make a single copy. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- You are the quickest messenger I know, and will get to Temple Bar long before I can. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
- As it is, the quickest of us walk about well wadded with stupidity. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- There was time only for the quickest arrangement of mind. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
- Full of thanks, and full of news, Miss Bates knew not which to give quickest. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
- That a northerly course would quickest lead me toward the more settled portions of the planet immediately decided the direction that I should steer. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
- They made a bet of a new hat before they had known each other half an hour, who should brew the best quart of punch and drink it the quickest. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- Hence, the quickest way was to search the tropics until the proper material was found. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- This, I am well aware, was not the quickest way to take of obeying the directions which I had received. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- This balanced ration is said to be the most nutritious food and the quickest fattener which can be given to animals. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
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