posthaste

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參見:post-hastepost haste

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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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posthaste (不可比)

  1. 很快
    It is imperative that you finish your task posthaste.
    你需要趕緊完成你的任務。
    • 1946Paramahansa 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.

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posthaste (不可數)

  1. 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."