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swiftly

/swift-lee/US // ˈswɪft li //

迅速地,飞快地,迅速,迅捷地

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Definitions

adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1
    • : with great speed or velocity:Catching a reflection in my mask lens, I swiftly turned around to see an 18-foot great white shark just yards away, looking straight at me!
    • : without delay; promptly; quickly: Behavior issues will be dealt with swiftly and decisively.

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Examples

  • By the time the 200th episode, “Fan Fiction,” aired in 2014, the show had come around swiftly to a full embrace of its fandom as being full of geeky, passionate women.

  • Hallucinogenic mushrooms’ key ingredient, psilocybin, can swiftly and dramatically ease depression in the right therapeutic setting, a small study suggests.

  • The trial-and-error approach also means that some products get swiftly pulled off shelves again if they flop.

  • Quiet, declarative, it suggests we’re about to skim swaths of time and space smoothly as an airborne drone, dropping swiftly and steeply into lives we already sense we’ll want to know.

  • For example, election officials might not have a voter’s current phone number or email address to swiftly contact them if their ballot is rejected.

  • Every once in a while, they act swiftly and acknowledge the problem.

  • We will not be able to win it back any more easily or swiftly that Roy Hobbs.

  • What had been intended as an on-the-record interview swiftly went off.

  • Republicans took control of the state legislature and swiftly eliminated the cap on charter schools.

  • Corrective action was taken to address this issue swiftly.

  • By his commandment he maketh the snow to fall apace, and sendeth forth swiftly the lightnings of his judgment.

  • “Yes; that would be indispensible,” said the baron, whose eyes were sweeping the room from corner to corner, fiercely and swiftly.

  • The kites soared, and the boats rushed swiftly over the calm and glittering sea.

  • They had reached the river now, and took a seat where they could look out over its swiftly moving waters.

  • But her attention was all absorbed by the swiftly executed act by which Garnache had gained at least a temporary advantage.