fasts

英 [fɑːsts]

美 [fæsts]

v.  节食; 禁食; 斋戒
fast的第三人称单数

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 快的;迅速的
  Fastmeans happening, moving, or doing something at great speed. You also usefastin questions or statements about speed.
  1. ...fast cars with flashing lights and sirens...
     闪着灯、鸣着笛、飞速行驶的车辆
  2. 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。
  3. 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。
  4. The only question is how fast the process will be.
     唯一的问题是这个过程会有多快。
  5. Fastis also an adverb.
     
  6. They work terrifically fast...
     他们干活极快。
  7. 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。
  8. He thinks they're not adapting fast enough...
     他认为他们适应得不够快。
  9. 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。
  10. How fast were you driving?...
      你当时车开得有多快?
  11. How fast would the disease develop?
      这种病发展得有多快?
• ADV-GRADED 迅速地;立即
  You usefastto say that something happens without any delay.
  1. 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！
  2. We'd appreciate your leaving as fast as possible.
     如果您能尽快离开，我们将不胜感激。
  3. Fastis also an adjective.
     
  4. 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 isfast, it is showing a time that is later than the real time.
  1. 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 somethingfast, you hold it tightly and firmly. If something is stuckfast, it is stuck very firmly and cannot move.
  1. 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。
  2. 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 holdfastto a principle or idea, or if you standfast, you do not change your mind about it, even though people are trying to persuade you to.
  1. 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。
  2. 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 arefast, they do not come out of the fabrics they are used on when they get wet.
  1. 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
  Afastway of life is one which involves a lot of enjoyable and expensive or dangerous activities.
  1. 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 youfast, you eat no food for a period of time, usually for either religious or medical reasons, or as a protest.
  1. 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。
  2. Fastis also a noun.
     
  3. 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 isfast asleepis completely asleep.
  1. 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 someoneis playing fast and loose, you are expressing disapproval of them for behaving in a deceitful, immoral, or irresponsible way.
  1. 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 someonehas pulled a fast one onyou, you mean that they have cheated or tricked you.
  1. 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。
• tomake a fast buck→ see:buck

双语例句

• The observances of the Church concerning feasts and fasts are tolerably well kept since the rich keep the feasts and the poor the fasts.
  教会有关节日宴会与禁食的仪式遵守得相当好，因为富人遵守节日宴会而穷人则遵守禁食。
• There are ritual fasts to make fat people thin and ceremonial feasts to make thin people fat.
  肥胖的人可进行斋戒以使自己变瘦，或是有仪式性的宴会使瘦人变肥。
• Their fasts are more rigid, and their other ascetic exercises stricter.
  他们的斋戒是更严格的，他们的其他苦行演习严格。
• She fasts on Fridays.
  她在星期五斋戒。
• Many Muslims also perform voluntary fasts at various times of the year as acts of devotion and spiritual discipline.
  许多穆斯林也履行自愿斋戒在不同时期的一年，作为行为的献身精神和纪律。
• He fasts for a whole day every week.
  他每个星期有一整天斋戒断食。
• The international direct investment is not only the capital and technical fluxion. Today national invests directly fasts fierce development, flows into the economic structure and form of the country and export nation creation influences to the capital but also influents economic structure and form in the world.
  国际直接投资不仅仅是资本和技术的流动，在经济全球化的今天，国际直接投资的迅猛发展，不但对资本流入国与输出国的经济格局产生影响，而且影响着世界范围内的经济格局。
• I did a few more juice fasts, still there wasn't any marked improvement.
  接下来我又做了几次蔬果汁断，却没有再进步。
• Ma Tai said extremely clearly on this, he fasts for40 day and nights, afterwards was hungry.
  马太在这一点上说的十分清楚，「他禁食四十昼夜，后来就饿了。
• Fasts were frequent and universally practised, river fish played an important part in the national life.
  各种禁食期是经常而普遍实行的，那时候河鱼在国民生活中发挥着重要作用。