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presto

/pres-toh/US // ˈprɛs toʊ //UK // (ˈprɛstəʊ) //

预备,预付,预备役,预付费用

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Definitions

adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1
    • : quickly, rapidly, or immediately.
    • : at a rapid tempo.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : quick or rapid.
    • : executed at a rapid tempo.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural pres·tos.

    • : Music. a movement or piece in quick tempo.

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Examples

  • If you were a toothpaste company, you would donate tubes for all the athletes… and, presto, you were an Olympic sponsor.

  • Simply zap water with electricity, and presto, you’ve got hydrogen.

  • A shoplifter looks at the camera and presto, police use face recognition to identify a suspect.

  • “We used to go for food at a little Italian place on Old Compton Street called Presto,” says Burston.

  • By simply saying those nine simple words we can magically claim anything for Islam, presto-chango.

  • And presto: polio returned—first in Nigeria then across Africa and into Asia, following an established migration pattern.

  • Toss a Cinderella- or Stockholm Syndrome-type victim into the mix and presto!

  • But these people are wholly on wires; laying their ears down, skimming away, pausing as though shot, and presto!

  • Mr. Jefferson, happening by mistake to pass over one of the many names of benefactors, and, presto!

  • A clerk on a stool, and hey presto plunged into the war a month after, shouldering a gun and marching.

  • Then Mrs. Spider came along, and she spun some glossy silk web over the places where the seams were, and presto-chango!

  • Victor had much difficulty in reading the notes readily and not confounding the terms adagio, presto, and sforzando.