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VERB
加速，加快（常指不愉快的事）
If you hasten an event or process, often an unpleasant one, you make it happen faster or sooner.
例句
But if he does this, he may hasten the collapse of his own country.
但是如果他這樣做，就有可能加速自己國家的崩潰。
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VERB
急忙;趕快;趕緊
If you hasten to do something, you are quick to do it.
例句
She more than anyone had hastened to sign the contract.
她比誰都急著去簽了合同。
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VERB
（為避免他人誤會）急忙（補充說）
If you hasten to say something, you quickly add something to what you have just said in order to prevent it being misunderstood.
例句
Naturally, it'll go back. But without Murray's little note, I hasten to add...
很自然，它會返回。但沒有默里的便條，我急忙補充道。
'There's no threat in this, Freddie,' Arnold hastened to say...
“這不會有什么危險的，弗雷迪，”阿諾德急忙補充了一句。
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VERB
趕往;趕去
If you hasten somewhere, you hurry there.
例句
One of them, the first to alight, hastened with quicksilver steps towards me.
他們中第一個下來的人急急忙忙地快步向我走來。