headlong
headlong 英 [ˈhedlɒŋ] 美 [ˈhedlɔŋ]
adj. 轻率的；头向前的；匆促而用力的 adv. 头向前地；猛然用力地
- Headlong describes something done headfirst, rashly, or really quickly. If you’re the star batter on your baseball team, it’s expected that you'll make a headlong dive for the base.
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- adj. 轻率的；头向前的；匆促而用力的
- adv. 头向前地；猛然用力地
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1. An unfortunate mistake that many organizations make is to jump headlong into J2EE without really understanding what it is.
许多组织都犯了一个很不幸的错误，就是很轻率的就跨越到 J2EE，但是并不真正理解它是什么。
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2. For Obama that transition has been sobering and daunting — a headlong collision with the reality of the White House and a political culture more resistant to change than he ever imagined.
对于奥巴马来说，这一转变不仅透心凉也是惊心魄——莽莽撞撞地与白宫及一种超出他想象的对变革有所抗拒的政治文化发生了抵触。
- headlong (adv.) late 14c., headling, also headlings, "headfirst (downward); headlong (forward); without thinking, hastily," from hed "head" (see head (n.)) + adverbial suffix -ling. Altered by c. 1400 to conform with sidelong, etc. Its true companions are now mostly obsolete: darkling, backling, flatling, etc.
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