swift
swift 英 [swɪft] 美 [swɪft]
adj. 迅速的；敏捷的
名词复数:swifts 比较级:swifter 最高级:swiftest
- If you were the first one to reach the finish line in gym class, the coach might have called you swift. Swift means quick or fast-moving. A glance, a current, even a decision can be swift.
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- adj. 迅速的；敏捷的
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1. swift action
迅速的行动
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2. a swift decision
迅即作出的决定
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3. The White House was swift to deny the rumours.
白宫立刻对这些传言予以否认。
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4. a swift current
湍急的水流
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5. a swift runner
跑得飞快的人
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6. She moved swiftly to the rescue.
她迅速赶来营救。
- swift (adj.) Old English swift "moving quickly," perhaps originally "turning quickly," from Proto-Germanic swip- (see swivel (n.)). Related: Swiftly; swiftness.
- swift (n.) type of bird (several species of the family Cypselidæ, resembling swallows), 1660s, from swift (adj.) in reference to its swift flight. Regarded as a bird of ill-omen, if not downright demonic, probably for its shrill cry. The name earlier had been given to several small fast lizards (1520s).
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