平時多注重近義詞組的累計，寫作時語言就會更加豐富多彩。今天我們來講一下英文怎么表達“急急忙忙”這個意思。

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1. be in a hurry/in a rush: if you do something in a hurry or in a rush, you do it too quickly because you do not have much time, usually with the result that you make mistakes 急急忙忙地做某事（通常會忙中出錯）

例：

She had left in a hurry, and had forgotten her driver's license.（她匆忙離開，忘了帶駕照。）

I'm sorry, I'm in a hurry. I can't stop now.（抱歉，我有急事，現(xiàn)在沒法停下來。）

Some people always seem to be in a hurry.（有些人總是行色匆匆。）

be in a hurry/rush to do something

Would you like to stay for a coffee, or are you in a hurry to leave? （您要留下來喝杯咖啡，還是急著走？）

We were in a hurry to get back to the office. （我們急著回辦公室。）

Why are they in such a rush to sell the house? （他們?yōu)槭裁催@么急著賣房子？）

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2. hurry through/rush through: to hurry in order to finish something in time, often so that you do not do something properly 趕著做完某事（通常沒用心做事）

例：

She hurried through her breakfast with her eyes on the clock. （她急急忙忙地吃早飯，眼睛一直盯著鐘看。）

Don't rush through the chapters; take notes as you read. （別趕著看完，邊看邊做筆記。）

People hurried through their chores, wanting to get to the fair. （大家急匆匆地做完家務(wù)，都想去逛集市。）

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3. hurry: to go somewhere or do something more quickly than usual, for example because you are late or because you must finish something by a particular time 因為快遲到或者時間緊迫而匆忙做某事/去某地

例：

Please hurry -- this is an emergency. （請快點，緊急情況?。?/span>

We have plenty of time, there's no need to hurry. （我們時間充裕，甭著急。）

Brewing beer is a long process and should not be hurried. （釀酒時間很長，急不得。）

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4.rush: to do something or go somewhere very quickly, often so quickly that you do not do it carefully or properly 意思大致同2

例：

Try to do your work calmly and carefully, without rushing. （作業(yè)心平氣和地認真做，別趕著做完。）

The book was rushed into print, and there are a lot of mistakes in it. （這本書草草付梓，書中有不少錯誤。）

If you rush your meals, you'll get indigestion. （吃飯?zhí)鞎涣?。?/span>

rush out/around/into etc.

Everyone rushed out into the street to see what was happening. （大家急忙涌上街頭去看到底出什么事了。）

rush to do something

Zack rushed to tell her what had happened. （扎克匆匆告訴她出了什么事。）

I rushed over to meet him. （我匆匆趕來見他。）

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5. be pushed/pressed for time: to be in a situation when you must hurry because you do not have enough time for what you have to do 因為時間不足而必須加快速度

例：

I don't want to seem rude but I'm very pressed for time. Could I call you back later? ?（我想表現(xiàn)得有禮貌些，但我實在有急事。稍候回你電話，好嗎？）

I can't stop right now; I'm a little pushed for time. （我現(xiàn)在沒法停下來，我有點急事。）

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6. work/race against the clock：to work as quickly as you can because you only have a short time to finish something分秒必爭

例：

In advertising you're always working against the clock, trying to meet deadlines. （在廣告界，做事情分秒必爭，要盡量準(zhǔn)時交稿。）

（備注：meet deadlines=finish something on time 在最后期限之前做完事情）

work/race against the clock to do something

We really had to work against the clock to finish the report on time. （我們必須分秒必爭，準(zhǔn)時完成報告。）

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7. in a race against time: used when you have to work extremely quickly, especially in order to do something very important, because there is not much time to do it 迅速（字面意思“與時間競賽”，即指必須在有限的時間內(nèi)盡快完成非常重要的事）

例：

Battleship repair crews swung into action in a race against time. （戰(zhàn)艦維修人員迅速投入工作。）

In an urgent race against time, the Coast Guard and marine biologists struggled to rescue a whale that had beached itself on the shore. （海岸警衛(wèi)隊和海洋生物學(xué)家迅速對擱淺鯨魚實施搶救。）