0 to move or do things more quickly than normal or to make someone do this -- (使)加快,催促
UK Don't hurry your food (= don't eat it too quickly). 吃東西不要太急。
I hate to hurry you, but I have to leave in a few minutes. 我不想催你,但我幾分鐘後就要走了。
After spending her lunch hour shopping, she hurried back (= returned quickly) to work. 利用午飯時間買完東西後,她匆忙趕回去工作。
I refuse to be hurried into a decision (= to be forced to make a decision too quickly). 我不願在別人的催促下匆忙作決定。
[ + to infinitive ] She hurried to answer the phone. 她匆忙去接電話。
Hurry or you'll be late. 快點,否則你會遲到的。
1 the need to move or do things more quickly than normal -- 匆忙,倉促
"I'll let you have this back next week." "That's all right, there's no (great) hurry/there isn't any (great) hurry (= no need to do it quickly)." 「我下個星期就把這個還給你。」「不要緊,不用那麼急。」
What's (all) the hurry (for)/Why (all) the hurry? (= Why are you acting or moving so quickly?) 你急甚麼?
"Can you wait a few minutes?" "Yes, I'm not in any hurry/I'm in no hurry (= I can wait)." 「你可以多等幾分鐘嗎?」「可以,我不著急。」
We left in such a hurry that we forgot our tickets. 我們走得太倉促,連票都忘了拿。
The 50,000 involved are honourable people, who have been treated in a disgraceful, hurried and populist way.
Secondly the present recovery is hurried and heated.
We should remember that there is another side to the great city—a hurried, crowded, harsh, impersonal side.
I should have thought that the work could have been hurried up.
I believe that recent events show that the resumption of this cooperation should not be hurried.
They do not mean a disorderly and hurried sale; they do not mean an unnecessary delay.
The hurried and ill-prepared scheme which is now being talked about will reflect that calculation rather than any real basis of principle.
There can be no accusation that on this matter anybody is being hurried or hustled.