quicken
单词辨析：
指增加速度、速率，尤指频率。
He glanced at his watch and quicken his steps.
他看了一眼手表，加快了脚步。
He felt his heart quicken when he saw Susan.
他看到苏珊时感觉自己心跳加快了。
指某事比预期更快或更早发生时，可作及物或不及物动词；指汽车或人加速时，只作不及物动词。
The urbanization process continued to accelerate.
城市化进程持续加快。
The bad weather accelerated our departure.
坏天气促使我们提前离开。
Her car accelerated smoothly away.
她的车平稳地加速离开。
That runner accelerated suddenly around the bend.
那名赛跑运动员在转弯处突然加速。
多指意外、糟糕之事使某事加速，或让某事提前发生。
His departure was hastened by an emergency.
由于一个突发事件，他提前走了。
His letter hastened the course of the enquiry.
他的来信加快了调查的进程。
Poor medical treatment hastened his death.
糟糕的治疗加速了他的死亡。
指催促某人做某事。
Sorry to rush you, but the board needs these materials by Thursday.
很抱歉催你，只是董事会周四之前需要这些材料。
He felt he was being rushed into making a decision.
他觉得自己是被催着去作决定。
指加快某事的发生、进展等，常指好事。
This incident should speed his decision.
这一事件应该会促使他尽快作出决定。
This new medicine should speed her recovery.
这种新药应该会加快她的康复。
The new measures will speed up the registration process.
这些新措施将加快注册过程。
相关例句：
We should quicken the pace to develop the market.
我们应该加快发展期货市场。
Quicken Informatization Step, Propel Development and Innovation of Industrial Engineering
加快信息化步伐，推动工业工程发展与创新
We must quicken our steps if we don't want to be.
我们如果不想淋的话，就得加快步伐。
In order to guide and advance enterprises to quicken the pace of technical advancement and industrial upgrade, the central government decided to take effective measures and policies to support the important technical renovation programs of the state.
为引导和推动企业加快技术进步和产业升级，中央决定采取有效措施和政策，支持国家重点技术改造项目。
He quickened his pace a little.
他稍稍加快了步伐。
The sustained growth of the economy in the future will quicken the process of the work of poverty alleviation.
未来经济的持续增长将加快扶贫开发的进程。