平时多注重近义词组的累计,写作时语言就会更加丰富多彩。今天我们来讲一下英文怎么表达“急急忙忙”这个意思。
1. be in a hurry/in a rush: if you
do something in a hurry or in a rush, you do it too quickly because you do not
have much time, usually with the result that you make mistakes 急急忙忙地做某事(通常会忙中出错)
例:
She had left in a hurry, and had forgotten
her driver's license.(她匆忙离开,忘了带驾照。)
I'm sorry, I'm in a hurry. I can't stop
now.(抱歉,我有急事,现在没法停下来。)
Some people always seem to be in a hurry.(有些人总是行色匆匆。)
be in a hurry/rush to do something
Would you like to stay for a coffee, or are
you in a hurry to leave? (您要留下来喝杯咖啡,还是急着走?)
We were in a hurry to get back to the
office. (我们急着回办公室。)
Why are they in such a rush to sell the
house? (他们为什么这么急着卖房子?)
2. hurry through/rush through: to
hurry in order to finish something in time, often so that you do not do
something properly 赶着做完某事(通常没用心做事)
例:
She hurried through her breakfast with her
eyes on the clock. (她急急忙忙地吃早饭,眼睛一直盯着钟看。)
Don't rush through the chapters; take notes
as you read. (别赶着看完,边看边做笔记。)
People hurried through their chores,
wanting to get to the fair. (大家急匆匆地做完家务,都想去逛集市。)
3. hurry: to go somewhere or do
something more quickly than usual, for example because you are late or because
you must finish something by a particular time 因为快迟到或者时间紧迫而匆忙做某事/去某地
例:
Please hurry -- this is an emergency. (请快点,紧急情况!)
We have plenty of time, there's no need to
hurry. (我们时间充裕,甭着急。)
Brewing beer is a long process and should
not be hurried. (酿酒时间很长,急不得。)
4.rush: to do something or go
somewhere very quickly, often so quickly that you do not do it carefully or
properly 意思大致同2
例:
Try to do your work calmly and carefully,
without rushing. (作业心平气和地认真做,别赶着做完。)
The book was rushed into print, and there
are a lot of mistakes in it. (这本书草草付梓,书中有不少错误。)
If you rush your meals, you'll get
indigestion. (吃饭太快会消化不良。)
rush out/around/into etc.
Everyone rushed out into the street to see
what was happening. (大家急忙涌上街头去看到底出什么事了。)
rush to do something
Zack rushed to tell her what had happened. (扎克匆匆告诉她出了什么事。)
I rushed over to meet him. (我匆匆赶来见他。)
5. be pushed/pressed
for time: to be in a situation when you must hurry because you do
not have enough time for what you have to do 因为时间不足而必须加快速度
例:
I don't want to seem rude but I'm very
pressed for time. Could I call you back later? (我想表现得有礼貌些,但我实在有急事。稍候回你电话,好吗?)
I can't stop right now; I'm a little pushed
for time. (我现在没法停下来,我有点急事。)
6. work/race
against the clock:to work as quickly as you can because you only have a short time to
finish something分秒必争
例:
In advertising you're always working
against the clock, trying to meet deadlines. (在广告界,做事情分秒必争,要尽量准时交稿。)
(备注:meet
deadlines=finish something on time 在最后期限之前做完事情)
work/race against the clock to do
something
We really had to work against the clock to
finish the report on time. (我们必须分秒必争,准时完成报告。)
7. in a race
against time: used when you have to work extremely quickly,
especially in order to do something very important, because there is not much
time to do it 迅速(字面意思“与时间竞赛”,即指必须在有限的时间内尽快完成非常重要的事)
例:
Battleship repair crews swung into action
in a race against time. (战舰维修人员迅速投入工作。)
In an urgent race against time, the Coast
Guard and marine biologists struggled to rescue a whale that had beached itself
on the shore. (海岸警卫队和海洋生物学家迅速对搁浅鲸鱼实施抢救。)