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alacrity

/uh-lak-ri-tee/US // əˈlæk rɪ ti //UK // (əˈlækrɪtɪ) //

爽快,敏锐性,敏捷性,敏锐

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : cheerful readiness, promptness, or willingness: We accepted the invitation with alacrity.
    • : liveliness; briskness.

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Examples

  • Down under, people endearingly call boxes of wine “goons,” and they drink them with alacrity.

  • When it comes to nuns, though, the church is somehow able to act with alacrity.

  • "Capital, capital," his lordship would remark with great alacrity, when there was no other way of escape.

  • Anselme, thus enjoined, lent an unwonted alacrity to his movements, waddling grotesquely like a hastening waterfowl.

  • Bernard, professing great alacrity, looked about him; but he still lingered near his companions.

  • This result comes only to those who carry out all the directions with genuine alacrity—not shirking one of them.

  • The quadroon was following them with little quick steps, having assumed a fictitious animation and alacrity for the occasion.