Urgency
['ɜːdʒ(ə)nsɪ] or ['ɝdʒənsi]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) pressing importance requiring speedy action; 'the urgency of his need'.
(noun.) an urgent situation calling for prompt action; 'I'll be there, barring any urgencies'; 'they departed hurriedly because of some great urgency in their affairs'.
(noun.) the state of being urgent; an earnest and insistent necessity.
汉弗莱手打--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The quality or condition of being urgent; insistence; pressure; as, the urgency of a demand or an occasion.
編輯:兰尼
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Pressure, press, exigency, emergency, stress, necessity, pressing want.[2]. Importunity, entreaty, insistence, solicitation.[3]. Incitement, stimulus, spur, goad.
手打:玛莎
例句/造句/用法:
- All the Cainozoic mammals were doing this one thing in common under the urgency of a common necessity; they were all growing brain. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- A century later the same urgency was to sweep Germany into a series of bloody Peasant Wars. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- If ever she delayed compliance, it was only to hear them repeated, and to enjoy her child's soft, half-playful, half-petulant urgency. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- The future just as future lacks urgency and body. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Well, no, not the urgency of the thing. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Well, then,' said Mr. Muzzle, 'I'm very sorry to have to explain myself before ladies, but the urgency of the case will be my excuse. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- And now you see the deadly urgency of this new case, and why I urged young Openshaw to caution. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- I tarry not, said the Pilgrim, giving way to the urgency of his companion; but I must secure the means of leaving this place--follow me. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- There is a continuing urgency towards fresh change. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- But, in spite of all her friends' urgency, and her own wish of seeing Ireland, Miss Fairfax prefers devoting the time to you and Mrs. Bates? 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- I feared that no telegram would convince you of the absolute urgency of the case. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- Margaret almost repented the urgency with which she had entreated him to go to London; it was throwing more chances of detection in his way. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- Had Golz had this and was it the urgency and the lack of time and the circumstances that made it? 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- I was under great difficulties between urgency and shame. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- She had risen and stood before him, once more completely mastered by the inner urgency of the moment. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
校對:莎娜