accelerate
verb /əkˈseləreɪt/
/əkˈseləreɪt/
动词形式
| present simple I / you / we / they accelerate | /əkˈseləreɪt/ /əkˈseləreɪt/ |
| he / she / it accelerates | /əkˈseləreɪts/ /əkˈseləreɪts/ |
| past simple accelerated | /əkˈseləreɪtɪd/ /əkˈseləreɪtɪd/ |
| past participle accelerated | /əkˈseləreɪtɪd/ /əkˈseləreɪtɪd/ |
| -ing form accelerating | /əkˈseləreɪtɪŋ/ /əkˈseləreɪtɪŋ/ |
- [intransitive, transitive] to happen faster or earlier; to make something happen faster or earlier
（使）加速，加快 - Inflation continues to accelerate.
通货膨胀不断加速。 - accelerate something Exposure to the sun can accelerate the ageing process.
暴露在日光下会加快老化过程。
Topics Change, cause and effectc1- Government policy has greatly accelerated the decline of the small farmer.
政府的政策大大加速了小农的衰落。 - Population growth accelerated only after 1750.
人口增长仅在1750年后加速。 - The epidemic is accelerating dramatically.
该流行病正以惊人的速度蔓延。 - The pace of change has begun to accelerate.
变革的步伐已经开始加快。 - factors which may accelerate inflation
可能加速通货膨胀的因素 - rapidly accelerating social change
快速加速的社会变革 - Environmental factors can accelerate the development of certain cancers.
环境因素可能会加快某些癌症的发展。 - He vowed to intensify efforts to accelerate the structural reform of the economy.
他誓言要加大努力，加快经济结构改革。
Collocations Dictionaryadverb- dramatically
- greatly
- rapidly
- …
- Inflation continues to accelerate.
- [intransitive] (of a vehicle or person
车辆或人 加速；加快 - The runners accelerated smoothly around the bend.
赛跑运动员在转弯处顺势加速。 - The car accelerated to overtake me.
那辆汽车加速超过了我。 - The car purred into life and accelerated away.
那辆轿车轰隆隆地发动起来，然后加速开走了。
WordfinderTopics Physics and chemistryc1, Transport by car or lorryc1- accelerate
- brake
- car
- commute
- driving
- licence
- motorist
- road
- road tax
- traffic
Collocations Dictionaryadverb- hard
- quickly
- smoothly
- …
opposite decelerate - The runners accelerated smoothly around the bend.
词源early 16th cent. (in the sense to make something happen faster): from Latin accelerat- ‘hastened’, from the verb accelerare, from ad- ‘towards’ + celer ‘swift’.