swifter

英 [ˈswɪftə]

美 [ˈswɪftər]

adj.  迅即发生的; 马上做出的; 迅速的; 速度快的; 敏捷的; 矫健的
swift的比较级

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 快的;迅速的
  Aswiftevent or process happens very quickly or without delay.
  1. Our task is to challenge the UN to make a swift decision...
     我们的任务是敦促联合国快速做出决策。
  2. The police were swift to act.
     警方行动迅速。
• ADJ-GRADED 快速移动的;速度非常快的
  Something that isswiftmoves very quickly.
  1. With a swift movement, Matthew Jerrold sat upright.
     马修· 杰罗尔德迅速坐直了。
• 雨燕
  Aswiftis a small bird with long curved wings.

双语例句

• While, in its swifter and livelier passages there appeared a channel-way of pebbles, and brown, sparkling sand.
  而在溪水畅通、流得欢快的地段，则露出河底的石子和闪光的褐砂。
• The researchers say their findings prove why black people are more likely to sprint faster while white people make swifter swimmers.
  研究人员称他们的发现找到了黑人善跑而白人善游的原因。
• The U.S.and Japan initially sought a swifter and stronger Security Council resolution that would have imposed new sanctions on North Korea.
  美国和日本最初希望安理会通过一份反应更为迅速、措辞更为强硬的决议，对朝鲜实施新的制裁措施。
• At present, the Olympic spirit of fair play, with its slogan of "swifter, higher and stronger", is widely spreading.
  现在，奥运会公平竞争的精神以及“更快、更高、更强”的口号正在被广泛推广。
• Progress might have been swifter without the misallocation of resources that diverted capital to sectors such as finance and telecoms, rather than agriculture.
  假如不是资源配置失当，导致资金流入金融和电信等行业，而非农业部门，那么进展或许会更大。
• Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.
  追赶我们的比空中的鹰更快。他们在山上追逼我们，在旷野埋伏，等候我们。
• Nor did he soften much in his disdain for the fruits of commercial society: cheaper cotton and swifter railways meant nothing to him;
  他也没有削弱自己对商品社会成果的鄙视：更便宜的棉花、更快捷的铁路对他来说毫无价值；
• I doubt if there's a swifter man in the kingdom.
  我怀疑在王国中是否有一个更迅速人。
• About the woods, go swifter than the wind.
  就在这片树林里，比风还快地去找。
• Since then, leaner and swifter GM has been transformed into a fighting machine.
  自那以后，通用汽车变得“身形小巧”，反应迅速，并脱胎换骨，成了一台“战斗车”。