Swiftness
['swiftnis]
解釋/意思:
(n.) The quality or state of being swift; speed; quickness; celerity; velocity; rapidity; as, the swiftness of a bird; the swiftness of a stream; swiftness of descent in a falling body; swiftness of thought, etc.
杰弗里校對
例句/造句/用法:
- The swiftness with which the papers displaced the gruesome details of the little girl's death by exultation over the business future of the city was a caution. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Mrs. Rouncewell, who holds the light, is giddy with the swiftness of his eyes and hands as he starts up, furnished for his journey. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- During this length of time the shell might have been carried by a marine country of average swiftness to a distance of 660 geographical miles. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- With exemplary swiftness Bob Gliddery departed, and returned. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- With a bound the black leaped entirely over the rushing beast and turning with incredible swiftness planted a second arrow in Horta's back. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- It was the conception of an inspired moment, and she shot off with her utmost swiftness to work it out. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- I was like a wild beast that had broken the toils; destroying the objects that obstructed me, and ranging through the wood with a stag-like swiftness. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- While doing this, with a swiftness incredible to one who has not watched an Italian peasant, he indicated a very remarkable and sinister smile. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Then he who is to be a really good and noble guardian of the State will require to unite in himself philosophy and spirit and swiftness and strength? 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- I have just discovered that the goose owes its swiftness to the shape of its feet. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- Yet he was probably of a delicate physique, because of the swiftness with which he died under the pains of crucifixion. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- I sunk to the ground, and my injurer, with increased swiftness, escaped into the wood. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- High into bending and swaying branches he was borne with what seemed to him incredible swiftness, while Tarzan chafed at the slowness of his progress. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
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