Rapid
['ræpɪd]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a part of a river where the current is very fast.
(adj.) done or occurring in a brief period of time; 'a rapid rise through the ranks' .
(adj.) characterized by speed; moving with or capable of moving with high speed; 'a rapid movement'; 'a speedy car'; 'a speedy errand boy' .
錄入:露西--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Very swift or quick; moving with celerity; fast; as, a rapid stream; a rapid flight; a rapid motion.
(a.) Advancing with haste or speed; speedy in progression; in quick sequence; as, rapid growth; rapid improvement; rapid recurrence; rapid succession.
(a.) Quick in execution; as, a rapid penman.
(a.) The part of a river where the current moves with great swiftness, but without actual waterfall or cascade; -- usually in the plural; as, the Lachine rapids in the St. Lawrence.
弗兰克編輯
同義詞及近義詞：
a. Swift, quick, speedy, fleet, fast, expeditious.
手打:玛吉
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Quick, swift, speedy, accelerated, flying
ANT:Slow, tardy, retarded, cumbrous, lazy
克利福德整理
解釋/意思:
adj. hurrying along: very swift: speedy.—n. that part of a river where the current is most rapid (gen. in pl.).—n. Rapid′ity quickness of motion or utterance: swiftness: velocity.—adv. Rap′idly.—n. Rap′idness.
校對:尼古拉斯
娱乐性解釋/意思：
To imagine that you are being carried over rapids in a dream, denotes that you will suffer appalling loss from the neglect of duty and the courting of seductive pleasures.
奥德丽整理
例句/造句/用法:
- Her rich colour, her quick blood, her rapid breath, were all setting themselves against the opportunity of retracing their steps. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Fields, trees, and hedges, seemed to rush past them with the velocity of a whirlwind, so rapid was the pace at which they tore along. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Even the log of wood which lies heavy and motionless on our woodpile is made up of countless billions of molecules each in rapid incessant motion. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- The latter was encumbered with barges of coal in tow, and consequently could make but little speed against the rapid current of the Mississippi. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- That rapid medley of sounds, and lo! 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- The buzzer, R, is maintained in rapid vibration by its independent auxiliary battery, B<1S>. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- The rapid-fire gun here shown is a model of a three-inch field gun mounted upon a special carriage. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- The long habit of rapid transitions made it easy for her to exclaim to the Duchess: Why, I thought you'd gone back to the Princess! 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- I was quite unprepared for the rapid manner in which Mrs. Guppy's power of jocularity merged into a power of taking the profoundest offence. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- This arose from the fact that, on account of the rapid succession of the electric impulses, there was not sufficient time between them for the electric action to cease entirely. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- The growth of steam navigation during the present generation has been wonderfully rapid. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- The process of extermination in such cases would be rapid, whereas the production of new species must always be slow. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- In travelling by the road from Harrisburg, I thought the perfection of rapid transit had been reached. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- The professor had been stricken dumb with surprise by the rapid developments of the past few minutes. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- There was a rapid development of plantations and proprietary colonies. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Spread the sail, and strain with oar, hurrying by dark impending crags, adown steep rapids, even to the sea of desolation I have reached. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Upon its arrival from Grand Rapids, in the fall of 1893, lacking a more suitable place, the motor was brought direct to my home and set up in the kitchen. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- To get up these rapids, steamers must be cordelled; that is, pulled up by ropes from the shore. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- I ordered a one-horse-power marine upright, two-cycle gasoline engine from the Sintz Gas Engine Company of Grand Rapids, Mich. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
黛拉校對