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SAT TEM8
外刊例句
- Zume has programmed robots to make pizzas that are then put into a van and baked as they hurtle towards customers.
Zume （机器人披萨初创企业）用编程机器人来做披萨，然后将披萨放进面包车，一边烤制一边向客户飞驰而去。
——《经济学人》 - In Washington, lawmakers are back from a break to try to hurtle a sweeping tax plan through Congress.
在华盛顿，议员们休假归来，努力推动一项全面的税收计划在国会通过。
——《纽约时报》
基本释义
[verb] move or cause to move at high speed, typically in an uncontrolled manner
[动词] 通常以不受控制的方式（使）高速移动
深入解读
Hurtle 是一个与英语单词 hurdle （栏架、跨栏；跨栏比赛；难关、障碍）十分形似的单词，同时也很容易会猜想是熟词 hurt 的衍生词。
其实，从词源上看， hurtle 一词很可能源自于与 hurt 可能同源的中古高地德语 hurten （向……冲去，碰撞），14世纪初进入英语后开始用来表示“猛烈碰撞”，比如：
- 她驾车飞驰而去。但几秒钟之后，她的车猛地撞上了金属围栏。
She drove off at a furious pace. But within seconds her car hurtled against the metal fence.
等到了14世纪末期后开始发展出现在的主要含义指“飞驰、猛冲”，多指以非常粗暴或暴力的方式不受控地向某个特定方向高速移动，比如：
- 当我们骑马从林中飞驰而过时，一辆失控的汽车朝我们飞驰而来。
When we were galloping through the woods, a runaway car came hurtling towards us. - 爆炸导致金属和玻璃碎片在空中乱飞。更多的人死于爆炸后的一段时间里。
The explosion sent pieces of metal and glass hurtling through the air. Many more people died in the aftermath of the explosion.
此外，也可以用 hurtle 引申表示“发着碰撞声飞速行进、发着巨大的声响急进”以及声音“鸣响、回荡”，比如：
- 当年史诗般的战斗场面又重现在他眼前。那时，厮杀声响彻云霄。
The epic battle scenes of those years reappeared in his mind's eye. At that time, the noise of the battle hurtled in the air.
名著用例
The air became colder and colder as they hurtled round tight corners.
在急转弯的地方空气变得更寒冷刺骨。
出自英国作家J·K·罗琳的奇幻小说《哈利·波特》系列的第一本《哈利·波特与魔法石》（Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone）。
同近义词
- gallop: proceed at great speed
- dash: run or travel somewhere in a great hurry
- streak: move very fast in a specified direction
