ADJ-GRADED 快的;迅速的 Fast means happening, moving, or doing something at great speed. You also use fast in questions or statements about speed.
...fast cars with flashing lights and sirens... 闪着灯、鸣着笛、飞速行驶的车辆
Brindley was known as a very, very fast driver... 众所周知,布林德利是个喜欢飞车的人。
The party aims to attract votes from the business and professional communities, which want a faster pace of political reform... 该党的目标是吸引商界和专业社群的选票,因为这两个群体都希望加快政治改革的步伐。
The only question is how fast the process will be. 唯一的问题是这个过程会有多快。
Fast is also an adverb.
They work terrifically fast... 他们干活极快。
It would be nice to go faster and break the world record... 要是能再快一些、打破世界纪录就好了。
He thinks they're not adapting fast enough... 他认为他们适应得不够快。
Barnes also knows that he is fast running out of time... 巴恩斯也知道他的时间很快就要用完了。
How fast were you driving?... 你当时车开得有多快?
How fast would the disease develop? 这种病发展得有多快?
ADV-GRADED 迅速地;立即 You use fast to say that something happens without any delay.
When you've got a crisis like this you need professional help — fast!... 当你遇到这样的危急情况,就需要专业救援了——要快!
We'd appreciate your leaving as fast as possible. 如果您能尽快离开,我们将不胜感激。
Fast is also an adjective.
That would be an astonishingly fast action on the part of the Congress. 那将会是由国会方面采取的迅雷不及掩耳的行动。
ADJ-GRADED (钟表)偏快的,走得快的 If a watch or clock is fast, it is showing a time that is later than the real time.
That clock's an hour fast. 那个钟快了一个小时。
ADV-GRADED 紧紧地;牢牢地;死死地 If you hold something fast, you hold it tightly and firmly. If something is stuck fast, it is stuck very firmly and cannot move.
She climbed the staircase cautiously, holding fast to the rail... 她紧紧地抓着栏杆,小心翼翼地爬楼梯。
The tanker is stuck fast on the rocks. 油轮紧卡在礁石中间动弹不得。
ADV-GRADED 坚定地;毫不动摇地 If you hold fast to a principle or idea, or if you stand fast, you do not change your mind about it, even though people are trying to persuade you to.
We can only try to hold fast to the age-old values of honesty, decency and concern for others... 我们只能努力坚守那些古老的价值观:诚实、正派、关心他人。
He told supporters to stand fast over the next few vital days. 他叫支持者在接下来的几个重要日子里站稳立场。
ADJ-GRADED (颜色或染料)不褪色的,不掉色的 If colours or dyes are fast, they do not come out of the fabrics they are used on when they get wet.
The fabric was ironed to make the colours fast. 为防止掉色,织物已经过熨烫。
ADJ 骄奢淫逸的;刺激而快乐的 A fast way of life is one which involves a lot of enjoyable and expensive or dangerous activities.
Life in Detroit no longer satisfied him; he wanted the fast life of California. 他不再满意底特律的生活,想要过加利福尼亚那种刺激快乐的生活。
VERB 斋戒;禁食;绝食 If you fast, you eat no food for a period of time, usually for either religious or medical reasons, or as a protest.
I fasted for a day and half and asked God to help me. 我斋戒了一天半,祈求上帝伸出援手。
Fast is also a noun.
The fast is broken at sunset, traditionally with dates and water. 日落时开斋,按传统会吃椰枣、喝水。
PHRASE 熟睡的;沉睡的 Someone who is fast asleep is completely asleep.
When he went upstairs five minutes later, she was fast asleep. 他5分钟后上楼时,她已睡熟。
PHRASE 玩猫腻;玩弄 If you say that someone is playing fast and loose, you are expressing disapproval of them for behaving in a deceitful, immoral, or irresponsible way.
There have been people who have played fast and loose with the rules. 有人在玩弄这些规则。
PHRASE 欺骗;哄骗;愚弄 If you say that someone has pulled a fast one on you, you mean that they have cheated or tricked you.
No doubt someone had pulled a fast one on her over a procedural matter. 无疑有人在程序性问题上骗了她。
I fasted for a day and half and asked God to help me. 我斋戒了一天半,祈求上帝伸出援手。
So we fasted and besought our God for this: and he was intreated of us. 所以我们禁食祈求我们的神,他就应允了我们。
Daniel had fasted and prayed twenty-one days, and had a very hard time in prayer. 但以理禁食祷告了二十一天在祷告上花了极大的苦工;可是没有得到答应。
They mourned and wept and fasted till evening for Saul and his son Jonathan, and for the army of the LORD and the house of Israel, because they had fallen by the sword. 而且悲哀哭号,禁食到晚上,是因扫罗和他儿子约拿单,并耶和华的民以色列家的人,倒在刀下。
When Ahab heard these words, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth and fasted. 亚哈听见这话,就撕裂衣服,禁食,身穿麻布,睡卧也穿着麻布,并且缓缓而行。
And he said, While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept: for I said, Who can tell whether GOD will be gracious to me, that the child may live? 大卫说,孩子还活着,我禁食哭泣。因为我想,或者耶和华怜恤我,使孩子不死也未可知。
Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not? 他们说,我们禁食,你为何不看见呢。
Participants ate a low-protein diet on the day before each phase of the study and fasted from midnight to9:00 am on the day of intervention. 受试者在研究的每个阶段前一天吃低蛋白饮食,在干预的当天从凌晨0点至早上9点禁食。
However, the Pharisees also fasted on Mondays and Thursdays to show they were truly righteous by going above what God commanded. 但是法利赛人在周一及周四都禁食以显示他们因完全遵守神的命令而是完全的。
He fasted that day, the whole day, never once asking if he could eat something, if he could break his fast early. 那天他封斋了,那一整天没有一次问起过他是否可以吃些东西,是否可以早点开斋。
And we fasted, and besought our God for this: and it fell out prosperously unto us. 我们为此禁食,祈求我们的天主,他便俯听了我们。
They performed brain scans on13 women and10 men, who had fasted overnight, to determine how their brains responded to the sight of their favorite foods. 研究者们对一晚上没吃的13个女性和10个男性的大脑进行了扫描来,目的是为了决定当他们看见自己最喜爱的食物时,大脑反应如何。
But though I have wept and fasted, wept and prayed. 虽然我曾哭泣,曾禁食,曾哭泣,曾祷告。
They fasted beforehand to prevent them from vomiting or fainting and have been performing special exercises for the past few days to avoid dizziness. 他们之前需要禁食,以防出现呕吐或晕厥,而且在过去几天里接受了特别训练以减少眩晕。
Relationship between the level of fasted blood glucose and post-prandial blood glucose in type 2 diabetes mellitus 322例2型糖尿病空腹血糖与餐后2h血糖的相关性分析
Mt.4:2 And when He had fasted forty days and forty nights, afterward He became hungry. 太四2他禁食了四十昼四十夜,后来就饿了。
So after they had fasted and prayed, they placed their hands on them and sent them off. 于是禁食祷告、手在他们头上、打发他们去了。
The fasted way to lose love is to hold on it too tight; 失去爱最快的方法,莫过于将其牢牢抓在手心;
And it was by the bed of a stream, many sick fasted and prayed with Gods angels for seven days and seven nights. 在一条溪流的河床旁,许多病人正在禁食,与神的天使一起祈祷已达七昼夜。
The fat ferret fasted first but as fated to feast on a fete. 胖鼠脚貂先戒斋,但是注定要在节日大吃一顿。
He fasted and he also told his Companions to fast on this day. 他斋戒并告诉圣门第子此日也斋戒。
He fasted in mourning for several days, and tears would cover his face whenever Ling Tong was mentioned. 他在哀悼好几天方面斋戒了,而且泪滴会包括他的脸,每当鳕党被提到。
And she has fasted ever since the day before yesterday's walk, from sorrow and rage that I dispatched her out of your society under the idea of its being unacceptable. 而且自从前天散步以后她就又难过又愤怒,以致不吃不喝,就因为我把她从你身旁打发走了,认为你是不会接受她的。
Since Musa ( peace and blessings be upon him) fasted this day as a way of thanksgiving, the Muslims are more entitled to follow him than the Jews. 因为穆萨(愿他平安)此日斋戒是一个感恩的方式,所以穆斯林比犹太人更有资格追随他。
2 they fasted until sundown and then started the festival. 他们斋戒到日落,接着开始庆祝这个节庆。
For forty days and nights he fasted, and at the end of them he was famished. 他四十昼夜斋戒禁食,感到饥饿难耐。
Some fasted, though others ate nachos. 他们要么只吃了玉米片,要么完全禁食。
The patient is fasted and given nothing to eat. 病人被迫禁食而且什么也不给吃。
This one is fasted if you want to delete some messages quickly. 这是禁食如果你想删除一些邮件迅速。
The first week of the Ramadan does take some time getting used to, especially for people who have not fasted in a while or for new Muslims who have never fasted before. 斋月第一周需要一些时间适应,特别是对好久没有斋戒或者从未斋戒过的新穆斯林来说,更是如此。