breakneck / ˈbreɪkˌnɛk /

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breakneck 的定义

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

breakneck 近义词

adj. 形容词 adjective

extremely fast

更多breakneck例句

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. Uggla built up the company through a breakneck series of acquisitions, culminating in the 2016 merger with IHS.
  4. 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.
  5. Strangely, this is happening at a time when vaccine science in general seems to be advancing at breakneck speed.
  6. Best Buy is caught up in the breakneck world of technological innovation.
  7. Democrats set out to woo a national network of extremely wealthy donors who could support the new breakneck fundraising pace.
  8. Private parts, be they of ducks, damselflies or dung beetles, turn out to have evolved novel forms at breakneck speeds.
  9. Then try to get a ticket for a Maple Leafs match, to watch the breakneck brutality in action.
  10. To maintain its breakneck growth, it almost has to look for younger members.
  11. It was really a breakneck sort of excursion, which is very rarely made even by the officers, and certainly never by ladies.
  12. This coach, of course, traveled by relays, and at what was then considered breakneck speed.
  13. 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.
  14. Mounted orderlies were dashing at breakneck speed between the Presidio and the city.
  15. Sara Lee heard his car going at its usual breakneck speed up the street, and went to the door.