fast

英[fɑːst]美[fæst]

adj.快的，迅速的，头脑灵活的，系牢的，不掉色的；

adv.快速，立即，牢固地；

v.禁食，斋戒；

n.禁食期，斋戒期；

第三人称单数：fasts;

过去式：fasted;

过去分词：fasted;

现在分词：fasting;

比较级：faster;

*高级：fastest;

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When a fast ball lands short of you, you have to play back.当一个快球靠近你着地时, 你得后退一步击球。

He holds fast to climbing the hill.他坚持爬山。

Hold fast to the rope, and I will put you up.抓紧绳子, 我把你拉上来。

i may not response fast enough, please bear with me.我可能反应不是那么快，请谅解一下。

The police examined the skid marks to see how fast the car had been travelling.**检查了车轮滑行痕迹，以判断汽车当时开得有多快。

Please look up a fast train to Leeds.请查一下去利兹的快车。

You're walking too fast. I can't keep up with you.你走得太快了, 我跟不上。

You write uncommonly fast.你写信写得这样快，真是少见。

The Kenyan athlete made a tactical error in starting too fast.肯尼亚运动员犯了战术错误，起步时跑得太快。

A school-boy was pulled up because he rode his bike too fast in the crowded street.一个男学生被截住了, 因为他在交通拥挤的街上骑快车。

英语六级真题

Medical spending, which typically rises faster than wages and the overall economy, is propelled by two things: the high prices charged for medical services in this country and the volume of unnecessary care delivered by doctors and hospitals, which often perform a lot more tests and treatments than a patient really needs.

find digital devices simply indispensablecommunicate primarily by mobile phonelight their homes with stored solar energydistribute power with wires and wooden polesbenefit their business transmit power faster promote innovationencourage competitionIt might become a thing of the past.

The market demand for electronic devices is now either declining or not growing as fast as before.

China has arguably the fastest growing operations in Antarctica.

Sports drinks which are often high in sugar and calories made up most of the food and drink deals, with soft drinks and fast food filling out the reminder.

It is fast widening across most parts of America.

But things change fast in the nail-biting world of college admissions.

With the iPhone, those networks may provide faster connections and longer battery life than AT&T's data network.

According to Marshall McLuhan, what will happen if things come at us very fast?

Many universities, including large schools like the University of Texas, make it easy for these AP students to graduate faster.

The university has poured resources into peer counseling to help students from inner-city schools adjust to the rigor (严格要求) and faster pace of a university classroom –and also to help minority students overcome the stereotype that they are less qualified.

workers who bill or get paid by the hour, think employer and fast-food workers, report focusing more on pursuing more money than those who get paid by salary and the fact has been fast.

Their road link to other European countries is fast

The first is not to go too high too fast.

Already it is known that bones, muscles and nerves develop faster in baby girls.

They believe that the nerve endings in the left side of the brain develop faster in girls than in boys, and it is this side of the brain that strongly influences an individual's ability to use language and remember things

So just take the fastest way even if it's not the most direct.

They're disappearing fast in America.

Further complicating my college search was a flourishing track career—I wanted to keep running but my times weren't quite fast enough to secure a scholarship.

It's no wonder that new applications for the Internet of Things are moving ahead fast when almost every new device we buy has a plug on the end of it or a wireless connection to the internet.

Our world now moves so fast that we seldom stop to see just how far we have come in just a few years.

Sara Greenstein, Underwriters Laboratories' chief strategy officer, offered her interpretation of the survey results, "Innovation is too fast only if corners are cut.

since it's a government-operated institution, things don't move very fast.

The country is still hopeful that it will meet its emissions goals, like reducing emissions by 40% by 2020, but the acceptance of electric cars in the country has not occurred as fast as expected.

The first obvious one is that the pace of innovation is too fast for consumers.

The study included 386 kindergarteners from schools in the Fast Track Project, a multi-site clinical trial in the U.S that in 1991 began tracking how children developed across their lives.

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

ADJ-GRADED

快的;迅速的

Fast means happening, moving, or doing something at great speed. You also use fast in questions or statements about speed.

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ADV-GRADED

迅速地;立即

You use fast to say that something happens without any delay.

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ADJ-GRADED

(钟表)偏快的，走得快的

If a watch or clock is fast, it is showing a time that is later than the real time.

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ADV-GRADED

紧紧地;牢牢地;死死地

If you hold something fast, you hold it tightly and firmly. If something is stuck fast, it is stuck very firmly and cannot move.

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ADV-GRADED

坚定地;毫不动摇地

If you hold fast to a principle or idea, or if you stand fast, you do not change your mind about it, even though people are trying to persuade you to.

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ADJ-GRADED

(颜色或染料)不褪色的，不掉色的

If colours or dyes are fast, they do not come out of the fabrics they are used on when they get wet.

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ADJ

骄奢淫逸的;刺激而快乐的

A fast way of life is one which involves a lot of enjoyable and expensive or dangerous activities.

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VERB

斋戒;禁食;绝食

If you fast, you eat no food for a period of time, usually for either religious or medical reasons, or as a protest.

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PHRASE

熟睡的;沉睡的

Someone who is fast asleep is completely asleep.

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PHRASE

玩猫腻;玩弄

If you say that someone is playing fast and loose, you are expressing disapproval of them for behaving in a deceitful, immoral, or irresponsible way.

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PHRASE

欺骗;哄骗;愚弄

If you say that someone has pulled a fast one on you, you mean that they have cheated or tricked you.

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英汉词典释义

adj.

快的, 迅速的，迅捷的

紧紧的, 牢固的

迅速发生的；立即发生的

动作迅速的；头脑灵活的

可供快速运动的

走得快

感光快的

系牢的；稳固的

不退色的

完成得快的，很快做完的，花较短时间的

(如睡眠)熟的，深沉的，酣畅的

放荡的，放纵的，男女乱交的

【摄影术】快动作的(镜头)；(指镜头)感光快的；(指胶片)曝光时间短的

adv.

快地, 迅速地，快速地

紧紧地, 牢固地，完全地

不久；立即

完全地，彻底地；熟睡地，酣畅地

(比准确的时间或宣布的时间)快，提前，快于标准时间

放荡地

vi.

禁食；（尤指）斋戒

n.

禁食期；斋戒期

英英词典释义

Noun

1. abstaining from food

Verb

1. abstain from certain foods, as for religious or medical reasons;

2. abstain from eating;

Adjective

1. acting or moving or capable of acting or moving quickly;

2. (used of timepieces) indicating a time ahead of or later than the correct time;

3. at a rapid tempo;

4. (of surfaces) conducive to rapid speeds;

5. firmly fastened or secured against opening;

6. resistant to destruction or fading;

7. unrestrained by convention or morality;

8. hurried and brief;

9. securely fixed in place;

10. unwavering in devotion to friend or vow or cause;

Adverb

1. quickly or rapidly (often used as a combining form);

2. firmly or tightly;

行业词典

体育： 将船艇系得牢牢的；速度高的；快的；

医学： 不动的，不变的；抗拒的：对某种特殊药物、染剂或退色剂的作用具有抗拒力的，如抗酸(acidfast)；禁食；

旅游： 斋戒；

物理学： 快慢符合装置；fast-slow coincidence assembly；

电力： 快速熔断器；fast-acting fuse；