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hurry-scurry

/hur-ee-skur-ee, huhr-ee-skuhr-ee/US // ˈhɜr iˈskɜr i, ˈhʌr iˈskʌr i //

匆匆忙忙,匆匆忙忙地,急急忙忙

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : headlong, disorderly haste; hurry and confusion.
adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1
    • : with hurrying and scurrying.
    • : confusedly; in a bustle.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : characterized by headlong, disorderly flight or haste.

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Examples

  • I could complain about how, two out of eight episodes in, Agent Carter is in no hurry to introduce its real villain.

  • Lorenzo Music delivers his lines as the title character in no particular hurry and with plenty of bite.

  • Some are homes and some are pump houses, and you can only tell the difference when you see human silhouettes scurry on rooftops.

  • And so some long-standing policies have changed dramatically and in a hurry.

  • They also want the administration to hurry up and decide how it plans to go after the group, both in Iraq and in Syria.

  • With him one is at high pressure all the time, and I have gained a good many more ideas from him than I can work up in a hurry.

  • The little crowd and the boats on the beach were right under them and no one paid any attention or seemed to be in a hurry.

  • That was because he was hungry, you see, but pigs nearly always eat fast, as though they were continually in a hurry.

  • Murat was in no hurry to commence his reign, and his subjects showed no great anxiety to see their new ruler.

  • Enough for him that it was one of the hated race, to be killed in a violent hurry or fled from in tremendous haste!