quicken
vt. 加快, 激发, 使有生气, 鼓舞, 使复活 vi. 加快, 变活跃, 进入胎动期
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释义与例句
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In full quicken tree: the European rowan, rowan, or mountain ash (Sorbus aucuparia).
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Synonym of couch grass (“a species of grass, Elymus repens”); also (chiefly in the plural), the underground rhizomes of this, and sometimes other grasses.
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Senses relating to life or states of activity.
To put (someone or something) in a state of activity or vigour comparable to life; to excite, to rouse.
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Senses relating to life or states of activity.
To inspire or stimulate (an action, a feeling, etc.).
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Senses relating to life or states of activity.
To stimulate or assist the fermentation of (an alcoholic beverage, dough, etc.).
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Senses relating to life or states of activity.
To give life to (someone or something never alive or once dead); to animate, to resurrect, to revive.
（使）复原
使有活力
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Senses relating to life or states of activity.
To make or help (something) to burn.
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Senses relating to life or states of activity.
To make (a drug, liquor, etc.) more effective or stimulating.
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Senses relating to life or states of activity.
Of a pregnant woman: to be in the state of reaching the stage of pregnancy at which the movements of the foetus are first felt.
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Senses relating to life or states of activity.
To take on a state of activity or vigour comparable to life; to be excited or roused.
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Senses relating to life or states of activity.
To grow bright; to brighten.
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Senses relating to life or states of activity.
Of a pregnant woman: to first feel the movements of the foetus, or reach the stage of pregnancy at which this takes place; of a foetus: to begin to move.
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Senses relating to life or states of activity.
To give life; to make alive.
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Senses relating to life or states of activity.
To come back to life, to receive life.
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Senses relating to speed.
To shorten the radius of (a curve); to make (a curve) sharper, or (an incline) steeper.
古体 及物 商务 建筑 工程to quicken the sheer, that is, to make its curve more pronounced
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Senses relating to speed.
To become quicker or faster.
不及物My heartbeat quickened when I heard him approach.
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Senses relating to life or states of activity.
To inspire or stimulate.
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Senses relating to speed.
To make (something) quicker or faster; to hasten, speed up.
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Senses relating to life or states of activity.
Of an alcoholic beverage, dough, etc.: to ferment.
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To apply quicksilver (mercury) to (something); to combine (something) with quicksilver; to quicksilver.
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From Middle English quiken (“(chiefly in place names) probably the European rowan or mountain ash (Sorbus aucuparia), and possibly also the aspen (Populus tremula), juniper (genus Juniperus, specifically the common juniper (Juniperus communis)), or service tree (Sorbus domestica)”), possibly from Old English cwician (“to bring to life, vivify; to come to life, become living; to quicken”) (see etymology 1).
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