posthaste
參見:post-haste 和 post haste
英語[編輯]
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詞源[編輯]
源自信件上的指示『haste, post, haste’(儘快派送),後解讀為post + haste的複合詞。
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副詞[編輯]
posthaste (不可比)
- 很快
- It is imperative that you finish your task posthaste.
- 你需要趕緊完成你的任務。
- 1946 — Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi, Ch. 17
- "Sasi cannot last through the night." These words from his physician, and the spectacle of my friend, now reduced almost to a skeleton, sent me posthaste to Serampore.
近義詞[編輯]
- (很快): ASAP、quickly
- 另見Thesaurus:quickly
名詞[編輯]
posthaste (不可數)
- post-haste的另一種拼寫法
- 1602 : Hamlet by William Shakespeare, act 1 scene 1 l 103-106
- "And this, I take it,
- Is the main motive of our preparations
- The source of this our watch, and the chief head
- Of this post-haste and rummage in the land."
- 1602 : Hamlet by William Shakespeare, act 1 scene 1 l 103-106