quick

• n. 核心；傷口的嫩肉
• adj. 快的；迅速的，敏捷的；靈敏的
• adv. 迅速地，快
• n. (Quick)人名；(英、德、瑞典、芬)奎克

來自古英語cwic,活的，有生命的，來自PIE*gweie,存活，生命，詞源同zoo,vival.引申詞義 快速的，敏捷的。

quick

quick: [OE] Originally quick meant ‘alive’ (as in the now fossilized phrase the quick and the dead); it was not until the 13th century that the sense ‘rapid’ began to emerge. It goes back to a prehistoric Germanic *kwikwaz (which also produced Swedish kvick ‘rapid’); and this was descended from an Indo-European base *gwej-, which branched out into Latin vīvus ‘alive’ (source of English vivid), Greek bíos ‘life’ (source of English biology), Welsh byw ‘alive’, Russian zhivoj ‘alive’, etc.

The couch of couch grass [16] is a variant of the now seldom encountered quitch, whose Old English ancestor cwice may be related to quick (the allusion presumably being to its vigorous growth).
=> biology, vivid

quick (adj.)

Old English cwic "living, alive, animate," and figuratively, of mental qualities, "rapid, ready," from Proto-Germanic *kwikwaz (cognates: Old Saxon and Old Frisian quik, Old Norse kvikr "living, alive," Dutch kwik "lively, bright, sprightly," Old High German quec "lively," German keck "bold"), from PIE root *gweie- (1) "to live" (see bio-). Sense of "lively, swift" developed by late 12c., on notion of "full of life."

NE swift or the now more common fast may apply to rapid motion of any duration, while in quick (in accordance with its original sense of 'live, lively') there is a notion of 'sudden' or 'soon over.' We speak of a fast horse or runner in a race, a quick starter but not a quick horse. A somewhat similar feeling may distinguish NHG schnell and rasch or it may be more a matter of local preference. [Buck]

Of persons, "mentally active," from late 15c. Also in Middle English used of soft soils, gravel pits, etc. where the ground is shifting and yielding (mid-14c., compare quicksand). As an adverb from c. 1300. To be quick about something is from 1937. Quick buck is from 1946, American English. Quick-change artist (1886) originally was an actor expert in playing different roles in the same performance of a show. Quick-witted is from 1520s.

quick (n.)

"living persons," Old English cwic, from quick (adj.); frequently paired with the dead, as in Old English cwicum & deadum. The quick "tender part of the flesh" (under a nail, etc.) is from 1520s, as is the figurative use of it.

1. Don't worry. We'll have you out of here double-quick.

別擔心，我們會很快把你從這兒弄出去的。

來自柯林斯例句

2. This delicious variation on an omelette is quick and easy to prepare.

這種稍加變化的可口煎蛋卷做起來又快又容易。

來自柯林斯例句

3. I looked at what he'd given me and did a quick subtraction.

我看著他給我的東西，快速做了個減法。

來自柯林斯例句

4. She gave him a quick, upward look, then lowered her eyes.

她抬眼迅速瞥了他一下，然后眼睛又垂了下去。

來自柯林斯例句

5. His friends say he was always quick to tell a joke.

他的朋友們說，以前他講笑話總是張嘴就來。

來自柯林斯例句