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breakneck

/breyk-nek/US // ˈbreɪkˌnɛk //UK // (ˈbreɪkˌnɛk) //

突破性的,突破性,突破,突破重围

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : reckless or dangerous, especially because of excessive speed; hazardous: He raced through the streets at breakneck speed.

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Examples

  • That uncertainty, which comes with untold economic repercussions, contributed to a slower-than-usual free agent market this winter — but one that now appears to have entered a final, breakneck phase.

  • Founded in October 2017, the upstart coffee chain grew at an apparently breakneck pace to overtake Starbucks as China’s biggest bean-brew slinger by the start of the year.

  • Uggla built up the company through a breakneck series of acquisitions, culminating in the 2016 merger with IHS.

  • Nature’s agonizingly slow process of discovery, driven by cosmological and biological evolution on time scales of millions and billions of years, is accelerated to breakneck speeds in the laboratory.

  • Strangely, this is happening at a time when vaccine science in general seems to be advancing at breakneck speed.

  • Best Buy is caught up in the breakneck world of technological innovation.

  • Democrats set out to woo a national network of extremely wealthy donors who could support the new breakneck fundraising pace.

  • Private parts, be they of ducks, damselflies or dung beetles, turn out to have evolved novel forms at breakneck speeds.

  • Then try to get a ticket for a Maple Leafs match, to watch the breakneck brutality in action.

  • To maintain its breakneck growth, it almost has to look for younger members.

  • It was really a breakneck sort of excursion, which is very rarely made even by the officers, and certainly never by ladies.

  • This coach, of course, traveled by relays, and at what was then considered breakneck speed.

  • With a grin the cabman touched his cap, the door banged, and the hansom set off as if the fare were in a breakneck hurry.

  • Mounted orderlies were dashing at breakneck speed between the Presidio and the city.

  • Sara Lee heard his car going at its usual breakneck speed up the street, and went to the door.

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