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quicken

/ˈkwɪk(ə)n/ 动词 C2

中文: (使)复原、使有活力

  1. To put (someone or something) in a state of activity or vigour comparable to life; to excite, to rouse. (transitive)
  2. To inspire or stimulate (an action, a feeling, etc.). (transitive)
  3. To stimulate or assist the fermentation of (an alcoholic beverage, dough, etc.). (transitive)
  4. To give life to (someone or something never alive or once dead); to animate, to resurrect, to revive. (figuratively, literary, transitive)
  5. To take on a state of activity or vigour comparable to life; to be excited or roused. (intransitive)
  6. To grow bright; to brighten. (intransitive)
  7. Of an alcoholic beverage, dough, etc.: to ferment. (intransitive)
  8. Of a pregnant woman: to first feel the movements of the foetus, or reach the stage of pregnancy at which this takes place; of a foetus: to begin to move. (figuratively, intransitive)

He/she/it quickens · 过去式 quickened · 过去分词 quickened · -ing形式 quickening

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动词形式

原形
quicken
He/she/it
quickens
过去式
quickened
过去分词
quickened
-ing形式
quickening

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Darzee’s wife fluttered on, piping sorrowfully, and never leaving the ground, and Nagaina quickened her pace.
《The Jungle Book》,第79页 · B2
See if I do not prick your neck with my sting.” The Draught-Mule replied, “I do not heed your threats; I only care for him who sits above you, and who quickens my pace with his whip, or holds me back with the reins.
《Three Hundred Aesop's Fables》,第78页 · B2
He quickened his pace until we had decreased the distance which divided us by about half.
《The Hound of the Baskervilles》,第44页 · C1
Her eyes were on her brother as I turned, and then she quickened her pace towards me.
《The Hound of the Baskervilles》,第85页 · C1

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