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I had spent two years cultivating this community, and it had become successful very fast, within six months, but I was facing the prospect of losing it all.
出自-2017年6月阅读原文
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What about supply? The three environmental trends—the shortage of fresh water, the loss of topsoil and the rising temperatures—are making it increasingly hard to expand the world's grain supply fast enough to keep up with demand.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文
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Today, when time zones have less and less meaning, there is little tolerance for offices' closing for lunch, and worsening traffic in cities means workers can't make it home and back fast enough anyway.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文
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Millions of irrigation wells in many countries are now pumping water out of underground sources faster than rainfall can refill them.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文
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As demand for food rises faster than supplies are growing, the resulting food-price inflation puts severe stress on the governments of many countries.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文
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Big fast food chains in New York City have started to obey a first-of-its-kind rule requiring them to post calorie counts right on the menu.
出自-2016年6月听力原文
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More fast food restaurants are likely to follow McDonald's example.
出自-2016年12月阅读原文
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We get a fairly large portion of calories from fast food and snacks.
出自-2015年12月阅读原文
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The objective of this debating game is not to win but to get to the truth that will allow you to move faster, farther and better.
出自-2015年12月阅读原文
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The microwave and fast-food chains were the biggest catalysts ( ' , 催化剂 ), but the big food companies—which want to sell anything except the raw ingredients that go into cooking—made the home cook an endangered species.
出自-2015年12月阅读原文
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Spending money is so fast and easy.
出自-2015年12月阅读原文
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Nearly two-thirds of us grab fast food once a week, and we get almost 25% of our daily calories from snacks.
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It clearly indicates the fast pace of modern life.
出自-2015年12月阅读原文
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E-books now account for 14 percent of all book sales in the country and are increasing far faster than overall book sales.
出自-2014年6月阅读原文
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All computers do is fetch and work with numbers, he once explained, but do it fast enough and "the results appear to be magic".
出自-2012年12月阅读原文
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They record where you are going,how fast you're traveling and whether everything on your airplane is functioning normally.
出自-2010年6月阅读原文
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The woman's watch is twenty minutes fast.
出自-2013年6月听力原文
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But taking a cue from health experts, a group of 19 restaurant companies are pledging to offer more-healthful menu options for children at a time when concern is growing over the role of fast food in childhood obesity(肥胖症).
出自-2012年12月听力原文
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Burger King, the nation's second-largest fast food chain, for instance, will stop automatically including French fries and soda in its kids' meals starting this month, although they will still be available
出自-2012年12月听力原文
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So just take the fastest way even if it's not the most direct.
出自-2011年12月听力原文
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Although no form of matter yet discovered moves as fast as or faster than light, scientific experiments have already confirmed that accelerated motion causes a traveler's time to be stretched.
出自-2011年6月听力原文
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If you could move faster than light, your time would move backward.
出自-2011年6月听力原文
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Although no form of matter yet discovered moves as fast as or faster than light, scientific experiments have already confirmed that accelerated motion causes a traveler's time to be stretched
出自-2011年6月听力原文
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Big fast food chains in New York city have started to obey a first-of-its-kind rule requiring them to post calorie counts right on the menu.
2016年6月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section A
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Fast food, it turns out, isn't quite as fast as it used to be.
2018年6月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section A
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New York's Attorney General's office launched an investigation in the fall into whether or not Verizon, Cablevision and time Warner are delivering broadband that's as fast as the providers claim it is.
2017年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section A
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So are you fast at writing the messages with your thumb?
2016年6月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section B
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The three environmental trends—the shortage of fresh water, the loss of topsoil and the rising temperatures—are making it increasingly hard to expand the world's grain supply fast enough to keep up with demand.
2016年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
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Medical spending, which typically rises faster than wages and the overall economy, is propelled by two things: the high prices charged for medical services in this country and the volume of unnecessary care delivered by doctors and hospitals, which often perform a lot more tests and treatments than a patient really needs.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文
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find digital devices simply indispensablecommunicate primarily by mobile phonelight their homes with stored solar energydistribute power with wires and wooden polesbenefit their business transmit power faster promote innovationencourage competitionIt might become a thing of the past.
出自-2016年12月阅读原文
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The market demand for electronic devices is now either declining or not growing as fast as before.
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China has arguably the fastest growing operations in Antarctica.
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Sports drinks which are often high in sugar and calories made up most of the food and drink deals, with soft drinks and fast food filling out the reminder.
出自-2016年12月听力原文
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It is fast widening across most parts of America.
出自-2015年12月阅读原文
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But things change fast in the nail-biting world of college admissions.
出自-2013年12月阅读原文
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With the iPhone, those networks may provide faster connections and longer battery life than AT&T's data network.
出自-2013年6月阅读原文
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According to Marshall McLuhan, what will happen if things come at us very fast?
出自-2012年12月阅读原文
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Many universities, including large schools like the University of Texas, make it easy for these AP students to graduate faster.
出自-2012年6月阅读原文
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The university has poured resources into peer counseling to help students from inner-city schools adjust to the rigor (严格要求) and faster pace of a university classroom –and also to help minority students overcome the stereotype that they are less qualified.
出自-2011年6月阅读原文
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workers who bill or get paid by the hour, think employer and fast-food workers, report focusing more on pursuing more money than those who get paid by salary and the fact has been fast.
出自-2014年6月听力原文
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Their road link to other European countries is fast
出自-2014年6月听力原文
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The first is not to go too high too fast.
出自-2012年12月听力原文
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Already it is known that bones, muscles and nerves develop faster in baby girls.
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They believe that the nerve endings in the left side of the brain develop faster in girls than in boys, and it is this side of the brain that strongly influences an individual's ability to use language and remember things
出自-2012年12月听力原文
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So just take the fastest way even if it's not the most direct.
出自-2011年12月听力原文
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They're disappearing fast in America.
出自-2010年12月听力原文
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Further complicating my college search was a flourishing track career—I wanted to keep running but my times weren't quite fast enough to secure a scholarship.
2018年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
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It's no wonder that new applications for the Internet of Things are moving ahead fast when almost every new device we buy has a plug on the end of it or a wireless connection to the internet.
2017年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
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Our world now moves so fast that we seldom stop to see just how far we have come in just a few years.
2017年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
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Sara Greenstein, Underwriters Laboratories' chief strategy officer, offered her interpretation of the survey results, "Innovation is too fast only if corners are cut.
2015年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
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since it's a government-operated institution, things don't move very fast.
2016年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section A
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The country is still hopeful that it will meet its emissions goals, like reducing emissions by 40% by 2020, but the acceptance of electric cars in the country has not occurred as fast as expected.
2017年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section A
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The first obvious one is that the pace of innovation is too fast for consumers.
2015年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
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The study included 386 kindergarteners from schools in the Fast Track Project, a multi-site clinical trial in the U.S that in 1991 began tracking how children developed across their lives.
2018年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C
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ADJ-GRADED
快的;迅速的
Fast means happening, moving, or doing something at great speed. You also use fast in questions or statements about speed.
例句
...fast cars with flashing lights and sirens...
闪着灯、鸣着笛、飞速行驶的车辆
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。
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ADV-GRADED
迅速地;立即
You use fast to say that something happens without any delay.
例句
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!
We'd appreciate your leaving as fast as possible.
如果您能尽快离开,我们将不胜感激。
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ADJ-GRADED
(钟表)偏快的,走得快的
If a watch or clock is fast, it is showing a time that is later than the real time.
例句
That clock's an hour fast.
那个钟快了一个小时。
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ADV-GRADED
紧紧地;牢牢地;死死地
If you hold something fast, you hold it tightly and firmly. If something is stuck fast, it is stuck very firmly and cannot move.
例句
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。
The tanker is stuck fast on the rocks.
油轮紧卡在礁石中间动弹不得。
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ADV-GRADED
坚定地;毫不动摇地
If you hold fast to a principle or idea, or if you stand fast, you do not change your mind about it, even though people are trying to persuade you to.
例句
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。
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。
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ADJ-GRADED
(颜色或染料)不褪色的,不掉色的
If colours or dyes are fast, they do not come out of the fabrics they are used on when they get wet.
例句
The fabric was ironed to make the colours fast.
为防止掉色,织物已经过熨烫。
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ADJ
骄奢淫逸的;刺激而快乐的
A fast way of life is one which involves a lot of enjoyable and expensive or dangerous activities.
例句
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。
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VERB
斋戒;禁食;绝食
If you fast, you eat no food for a period of time, usually for either religious or medical reasons, or as a protest.
例句
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。
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PHRASE
熟睡的;沉睡的
Someone who is fast asleep is completely asleep.
例句
When he went upstairs five minutes later, she was fast asleep.
他5分钟后上楼时,她已睡熟。
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PHRASE
玩猫腻;玩弄
If you say that someone is playing fast and loose, you are expressing disapproval of them for behaving in a deceitful, immoral, or irresponsible way.
例句
There have been people who have played fast and loose with the rules.
有人在玩弄这些规则。
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PHRASE
欺骗;哄骗;愚弄
If you say that someone has pulled a fast one on you, you mean that they have cheated or tricked you.
例句
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。