Accelerate

(verb.) move faster; 'The car accelerated'.

(verb.) cause to move faster; 'He accelerated the car'.

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• You cannot,' she affirmed triumphantly--'you cannot make me tremble with your coming, nor accelerate my pulse by your influence. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• A characteristic trend of the present age is toward increased speed in everything, and the most conspicuous example of accelerated speed in late years is the bicycle. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• First, I smiled to myself and felt elate; but this fierce pleasure subsided in me as fast as did the accelerated throb of my pulses. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• It treats of cohesion and resistance to fracture (strength of materials), and uniform, accelerated, and projectile motion (dynamics). 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• The talk took refuge in less ominous topics; but everything they touched on seemed to confirm Mrs. Archer's sense of an accelerated trend. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• We were crossing to the former place, when I found that my aunt greatly accelerated her speed, and looked frightened. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• A second great thrust by China began about 75 A.D., and accelerated the westward drift of the nomads. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• This caused the enemy to evacuate their position, which was possibly accelerated by the expedition of Hovey and Washburn. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• The action and reaction thus constantly at work, tend to give accelerating impulse to invention, and are continually enlarging its sphere of operations. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.

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