urgent
a. 紧急的, 急迫的, 催逼的 [经] 紧急的, 急迫的
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教材释义与例句
紧急的；急迫的
very important and needing to be dealt with immediately
He was in urgent need of medical attention.
他急需治疗。
The report called for urgent action to reduce lead in petrol.
报告呼吁迅速采取行动，减少汽油中的铅含量。
an urgent message
一封急报
释义与例句
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Requiring immediate attention.
紧急
紧迫
急迫
An urgent appeal was sent out for assistance.
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2.
Of people: insistent, solicitous.
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Borrowed from Middle French urgent (“pressing, impelling”), from Latin urgēns, from urgēre (“to press”), from Proto-Indo-European *werǵʰ- (“bind, squeeze”). Equivalent to urge + -ent. Related to German würgen (“to strangle”), Lithuanian ver̃žti (“to string, tighten, constrict”), Russian (poetic) отверза́ть (otverzátʹ, “to open”, literally “to untie”), Polish otwierać (“to open”)) and English worry, wring, wreak, wreck.
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