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Alacrity is quickness with a willing heart — you do the thing fast because you are glad to, not because someone is shouting. If you stand up with alacrity, you jump to it. It is a rather old, noun. In real life you will almost always meet it in the little phrase “with alacrity.” Everyday English prefers “” or “right away.” Though actually it is not the same as panicking or being in a stress-rush; the Latin idea behind it is brisk and ready, not . You cannot count it: we do not say “an alacrity.”
欣然、樂意立刻去做（不是體操那種「身體很靈活」）
組成Mid-15th century; from Middle English alacrite, from Latin alacritās, from alacer (“brisk”) + -itās (“-ity”).
同家族的字
- allegrosame Latin alacer, “brisk” — in music, a quick lively speed
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
alacritynoun/əˈlakrᵻti/
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Eagerness; liveliness; enthusiasm.
- Besides, a wealthy man, well at ease, may pray to God quietly and merrily with alacrity and great quietness of mind, whereas he who lieth groaning in his grief cannot endure to pray nor can he hardly think upon anything but his pain.
- I have not that alacrity of spirit / Nor cheer of mind that I was wont to have.
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Promptness; speed.
- Governments show thus how successfully men can be imposed on, even impose on themselves, for their own advantage. […] Yet this government never of itself furthered any enterprise, but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way.
- He had a uniform jacket with one button off, and seeing a white man on the path, hoisted his weapon to his shoulder with alacrity.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。