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

这个国家当是正的速度发生变化，这一点他说错。

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，说个完；兴奋过度之后，接着却又感觉麻木，一言不发，一动不动。 要是恢复了一点知觉，她拿一瓶科罗涅香水往胳膊上洒。

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

这种速的变化追随着类轻率的步伐而非大自然的从容步态。

What seems clear is that city is well defended with antiaircraft fire, and we can only presume that because they have started up again with considerable rapidity, that there is another attack coming in.

似乎可确定的是，这座城市的防空能力很好，我们只能推测，因为它们相当的速度重新又发起了进攻，另一场袭击即将到来。

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，在有率的乐器上弹奏更难，这是因为你要想在吉他上演奏的速度在大提琴上弹拨会更难。

“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，他手里提着两个鼓鼓的麻袋，那只带魔法的眼睛还飞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。”

She said that the nation has coordinated large numbers of medical workers and medical resources to improve the efficiency of nucleic acid testing because the " rapidity" of testing and processing is pivotal in accelerating quarantine and treatment.

她说，国家已经协调了大量医务员和医疗资源来提高核酸检测的效率，因为“速”的核酸检测和结果的对于加隔离和治疗至关重要。

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有了，问是不是我喝那玩意。

" 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！" 还等侍者伶牙俐齿地把话说完，众便一个个面面相觑，不约而同地重复了一声这个名字。

The old man continued to fold and seal his letter, snatching up and throwing down the wax, the seal, and the paper, with his accustomed rapidity.

老头儿继续把信折好，封好，敏捷地拿起火漆、封印和纸，又把它们放下。

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

火焰离我们也四分之一英里了，风吹着火苗可怕的速度翻滚，要不了一会烧过来了。”

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针简直得象野马似的在奔跑。

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

从他的观点来看，这种毒药能够迅速发挥作用也是一个可取之处。

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。

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，似乎极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，怎么会有救援呢？

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.

紧接着响了第二声汽笛，火车又开始前进了。它不断加速度，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.

原来是一辆机车，不住地鸣着汽笛，慢慢地开了过来。这正是原来的那辆机车。它自从甩掉了列车后，的速度带着半死不活的司机和司炉继续向前飞驰。

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，越觉得寒冷，冷得无法张口说话。

It provides tools and scale and rapidity that doesn't exist elsewhere.

它提供了别处不存在的工具、规模和速度。