He was right in that the country was altering with staggering rapidity.

这个国家当是正以惊人的速度发生变化，这一点他没说错。

To sights and sounds and events which required action, he responded with lightning-like rapidity.

当看到、听到或遇到什么而需要采取行动的时候, 他有疾如雷电的反应。

The rapidity of change follows the impetuous pace of man rather than the deliberate pace of nature.

这种快速的变化人类轻率的步伐而非大自然的从容步态。

It was hugely adventurous and spread across the globe with what seems to have been breathtaking rapidity.

他们特别敢于冒险，似乎以极快的速度迁移到世界各地。

And in the darkness, and the rapidity with which they were borne along, how should help come?

可是天又黑洪水又急，怎么会有人救援呢？

The travellers, huddled close together, could not speak for the cold, intensified by the rapidity at which they were going.

旅客们紧紧地挤在一起，连一句话也不能说。因为雪橇跑得越快，人越觉得寒冷，冷得无法张口说话。

The rapidity with which such a poison would take effect would also, from his point of view, be an advantage.

从他的观点看，这种毒药能够迅速发挥作用也是一个可取之处。

Their debts mounted with alarming rapidity.

【rapid】他们的债务以惊人的速度增加。

The flames are within a quarter of a mile of us, and the wind is bringing them down in this direction with dreadful rapidity.

火焰离我们也就四分之一英里了，风吹火苗以可怕的速度翻滚，要不了一会就烧过了。”

Passepartout was getting nervous, for the hands on the face of the big clock over the judge seemed to go around with terrible rapidity.

在他们演这场换假发的开场戏时，路路通早急得象热锅上的蚂蚁了。他觉得审判厅里那个大挂钟上的指快得象野马似的在奔跑。

" Elliot" ! Many had looked on each other, and many had repeated the name, before all this had been got through, even by the smart rapidity of a waiter.

" 埃利奥特！" 还没等侍者伶牙俐齿地把话说完，众人便一个个面面相觑，不约而同地重复了一声这个名字。

A year or so before, observing the rapidity with which huge bottles of Listerine were disappearing from the bathroom, Tabby asked me if I drank the stuff.

大约一年前，塔碧发现浴室里大瓶的李施德林漱口水很快就没有了，就问是不是我喝那玩意。

Elizabeth, who was left by herself, now smiled at the rapidity and ease with which an affair was finally settled, that had given them so many previous months of suspense and vexation.

伊丽莎白一个人留在那儿，心想：家里人为了这件事，几个月一在烦神担心，如今却一下子便得到了解决，她想到这里，不禁一笑。

Then, with another whistle, he began to move forward;the train increased its speed, and soon its rapidity became frightful;a prolonged screech issued from the locomotive; the piston worked up and down twenty strokes to the second.

紧接响了第二声汽笛，火车又开始前进了。它不断加快速度，一会儿，速度已经大到了十分可怕的程度，车上只能听见机车发出的一阵隆隆声，活塞每秒钟进返二十次。

The locomotive, which was slowly approaching with deafening whistles, was that which, having been detached from the train, had continued its route with such terrific rapidity, carrying off the unconscious engineer and stoker.

原是一辆机车，不住地鸣汽笛，慢慢地开了过。这正是原的那辆机车。它自从甩掉了列车以后，就以惊人的速度带半死不活的司机和司炉继续向前飞驰。

“Change of plan, ” growled Mad-Eye, who was holding two enormous bulging sacks, and whose magical eye was spinning from darkening sky to house to garden with dizzying rapidity. “Let's get undercover before we talk you through it.”

“计划有变，”疯眼汉不耐烦地说，他手里提两个鼓鼓的麻袋，那只带魔法的眼睛还飞快地从昏暗的天空扫到房子再到花园，“等到了安全的地方再慢慢给你说。”

'My fingers, ' said Elizabeth, 'do not move over this instrument in the masterly manner which I see so many women's do. They have not the same force or rapidity, and do not produce the same expression.

" 我弹起钢琴，手指不像许多妇女技巧那么熟练，也不像她们那么有力和灵活，也没有她们弹得那么有表情。

On certain days she chatted with feverish rapidity, and this over-excitement was suddenly followed by a state of torpor, in which she remained without speaking, without moving. What then revived her was pouring a bottle of eau-de-cologne over her arms.

有些日子，她发高烧，说胡话，说个没完；兴奋过度之后，接却又感觉麻木，一言不发，一动不动。 要是恢复了一点知觉，她就拿一瓶科罗涅香水往胳膊上洒。

The reason it's harder to pluck on instruments that have a curvature versus on a guitar where you actually have a flat plane, it's a little harder to pick and actually pluck with the same rapidity that you can on a guitar.

为什么相比于平坦的吉他而言，在有曲率的乐器上弹奏更难，这是因为你要想以在吉他上演奏的速度在大提琴上弹拨会更难。

Dresses, cashmeres, jewels, were sold with incredible rapidity. There was nothing that I cared for, and I still waited. All at once I heard: " A volume, beautifully bound, gilt-edged, entitled Manon Lescaut. There is something written on the first page. Ten francs" .

衣裙、开司米披巾、首饰，售出之快令人难以置信。没有一样对我的心思，我一等待机会。忽然，我听见有人嚷道：" 一部书，精装本，切口烫金，书名为《玛侬·列斯戈》 ，扉页上还有题词，十法郎。"