headlong的意思|headlong的解释-里氏词典

headlong ['hedlɒŋ]

a. 头向前的, 仓猝而用力的, 轻率的

ad. 头向前地, 猛然地, 用力地

Don't rush headlong into danger; think it through carefully before you make any decisions.
不要轻率地奔赴险境，做任何决定之前都要认真想想。
Little Marry carried on for ten minutes after she fell headlong.
小玛丽摔了个倒栽葱后,哭闹了十分钟。
The child leaned towards his mother and fell headlong in front of her.
孩子俯身凑向妈妈，头朝前面倒在妈妈的面前。

headlong

[ adv ]

with the head foremost

<adv.all>

the runner slid headlong into third base

at breakneck speed

<adv.all>

burst headlong through the gate

in a hasty and foolhardy manner

<adv.all>

he fell headlong in love with his cousin

[ adj ]

excessively quick

<adj.all>

made a hasty exit

a headlong rush to sell

with the head foremost

<adj.all>

a headfirst plunge down the stairs

a headlong dive into the pool

Headlong \Head"long\, a.
1. Rash; precipitate; as, headlong folly.

2. Steep; precipitous. [Poetic]

Like a tower upon a headlong rock. --Byron.

Headlong \Head"long`\ (-l[o^]ng`; 115), adv. [OE. hedling,
hevedlynge; prob. confused with E. long, a. & adv.]
1. With the head foremost; headforemost; head first; as, to
fall headlong. --Acts i. 18.

2. Rashly; precipitately; without deliberation.

3. Hastily; without delay or respite.

Neither side dares risk a postponement, unless relatively minor. So South Africa hurtles headlong towards elections, less than eight months away, without a constitution under which to hold the poll.
Some analysts contend that the Bells, in their headlong rush to diversify, may be paying too much for acquisitions.
The losing agencies may be tempted to run headlong toward Mercedes-Benz, currently in the midst of a review for its own approximately $88 million account.
One chief economist of a leading Riyadh-based bank suggests that the headlong rush in the construction sector is already overdone.
If I had thought a moment, perhaps I would have answered the lady in the supermarket a bit differently by saying, "we did it, but the hardest job is still ahead." The renewed urge to control the spread of arms is running headlong into two powerful forces.
First the recession of the 1980s, a few brief years of recovery, and then headlong into another recession which has stunted aspiration. There are now, it is true, glimpses of recovery.
The latest charge follows a $975 million charge taken last February, as Westinghouse continues to pay a steep price for its headlong expansion into commercial real estate in the 1980s.
Recession has shaken the aerospace sector and many of the city's other main industries, applying the brakes to its headlong expansion over the past three decades. Beyond the city limits, it is a similar story.
Not content with digging himself into a hole on coal, it now appears that he is jumping headlong into a pickle on the Post Office'.
A little over 18 months ago, Nintendo, a 99-year-old Japanese playing card manufacturer and maker of the popular arcade game "Donkey Kong," jumped headlong into home video games, an American market most thought was stone dead.
Ridley exited the political stage and the fuss was only a ripple in the headlong rush to unify Germany.
A young country songwriter's lyrics get stolen, and Shannon plunges headlong into the world of music.
On Thursday, the Council of State asked election officials not "to rush headlong into elections," saying minimal security conditions had not been established by the executive branch.
The company leaped headlong into fiber optics, building a cable between Rochester and Chicago, only to find it couldn't get enough people to use it.
BCCI obtained its Luxembourg banking license in 1972. Pierre Jaans, director of the Monetary Institute, says problems became evident only after years of headlong growth by BCCI.
Paramount, the creator of such modern-day hits as "Beverly Hills Cop" and "Top Gun," is rushing headlong into television commercials.
The new chief has to communicate "what's not going to change and shore up relations with key executives if he wants to avoid a headlong rush to the exit."
American's headlong rush to growth, he said, was undertaken "in the expectation that the capital we were investing would produce appropriate incremental margins," he told the group.
Baker also said the United States should avoid "a headlong rush" to provide Moscow with loans and credits, which are traditionally a useful tool in improving relations.
Most of the country is either charging headlong into a real-estate slump or clawing its way back from one.
To quote him again, if we do not reverse course as we plunge headlong into the new information age, the U.S. will create "something we fought a revolutionary war to get away from, and a civil war, and that is a class society."

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