词汇释义
alacrity TEM8 GRE
UK /əˈlæk.rə.ti/ US /əˈlæk.rə.t̬i/
noun, If you do something with alacrity, you do it quickly and eagerly.欣然，痛快
外刊例句
1. With the alacrity of a Widow Twankey suddenly called upon to defend fellow guild-member, Mother Goose, Today's guest editor upheld Woolf's damification as an establishment inevitability.(The Guardian - Opinion)
2. Barnes said it was "curious" that this case had been acted on "with alacrity by police" and that the woman was charged with a crime, as there have been "very few" prosecutions of people for unauthorised access of data.(The Guardian)
3. The curiously muted atmosphere contrasted sharply with the way South Africa's president, Jacob Zuma, and the US president, Barack Obama, emerge from election wins with alacrity to lap up adulation from cheering crowds.(The Guardian)
4. Chelsea's third-choice striker duly took the ball, looked up at the luminous orange "Drogba Legend" sign, calmly set the ball and finished with the alacrity they had seen so consistently in these parts.(The Guardian - Sport)
5. Her refusal to submit with sufficient alacrity to the will of the doctors was taken as evidence that she was unfit to be entrusted with this authority.(The Economist)
6. Dr Mead tackled this and other problems with alacrity.(The Economist)
7. It also has fine senses of smell and touch, and thrusts itself into the rough-and-tumble of feeding and mating with alacrity.(The Economist)
8. Politics and morality are inescapably intertwined and few politicians head for the moral high ground with greater alacrity than the prime minister.(The Economist)
9. When the chance came to ditch Lord Archer, the Tory leader seized it with alacrity and demanded that he step down. Mr Hague may have new headaches over Lord Archer's replacement, who will be chosen by the same process.(The Economist)
10. Other central bankers may decry the Fed's alacrity at bringing cheaper money, but they usually join it in time.(The Economist)
11. Often, it is impossible to tell from the alacrity with which web pages load up alone whether the connection is running at 10 Mbps or 100 Mbps.(The Economist)
12. Even in making machine-tools, it defers only to the United States, Japan and Germany, and engineering graduates from Turin and Milan are world-class. Another sign of vitality is the alacrity with which many Italian firms, especially in the north-east, have invested in Central Europe.(The Economist)
13. At best this looks like a regrettable lack of co-ordination. The absence of visible progress in bringing cases related to the files looks all the more glaring when set against the alacrity with which some European countries exploited them.(The Economist)
14. The alacrity with which Palestinians took to throwing stones smells less to Israelis of spontaneous rage than of carefully choreographed blackmail.In some ways, and certainly to Israeli hardliners, the feeling of being besieged is a familiar refuge.(The Economist)
15. But Mediaset has responded with much greater alacrity than other broadcasters by rolling out a rival service.Italians can buy football games and films by means of cards, much as they might top up a mobile phone.(The Economist)
词汇搭配
with alacrity | great alacrity
词汇来源
"liveliness, briskness," mid-15c., from Latin alacritatem (nominative alacritas) "liveliness, ardor, eagerness," from alacer (genitive alacris) "cheerful, brisk, lively;" a word of uncertain origin. Perhaps cognate with Gothic aljan "zeal," Old English ellen "courage, zeal, strength," Old High German ellian. But de Vaan suggests the root sense is "to wander, roam" and a possible connection with ambulare.
近义词
ardor, avidity, eagerness, enthusiasm, exuberance, fervor, keenness, zeal, zest
反义词
delay, hesitation, reluctance, reservation, uncertainty, vacillation
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