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hectically

/hek-tik/US // ˈhɛk tɪk //UK // (ˈhɛktɪk) //

公然,公然地,公正地,公然的

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : characterized by intense agitation, excitement, confused and rapid movement, etc.: The week before the trip was hectic and exhausting.

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Examples

  • For some athletes — especially with high school seasons and senior-year festivities affected by the pandemic — the benefits to enrolling early make this option attractive, even though it requires a hectic entry into the college game.

  • We’re expecting it to be pretty hectic, hopefully nothing too crazy.

  • During hectic times, customers are more emotional — this can either work for or against you.

  • It was so hectic, she found herself helping bring carts back to the front of the club, as the chain calls its stores, in an all-hands-on-deck moment.

  • He can aim to control the pace or to make things more hectic.

  • Her eyes shone hectically bright and strangely alluring to the detective.

  • "There is certainly something very strange about all this," he whispered a bit hectically.

  • Eyes that met when commands were given and received were dull from want of sleep or hectically bright as a hypochondriac's.

  • As Sagner turned back to me, and we passed on out of hearing, I noted two red spots flaming hectically in his cheeks.

  • She did not lean hectically over the rail and talk rapidly from the outside as did the young men reporters.