He was playing cards with his cronies.

My friends are waiting for me in front of the library.

我那些狐朋狗友都会来图书馆等我。

But while you're pushing the pedal to the metal just to keep up with the Joneses, ask where everybody's going and why they're in such a hurry.

当你快马加鞭，只为跟上大步队的时候，问问大家都去哪，为什么那么匆忙？

It was 2006 and the capital was gearing up for the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

当时是2006年，北京正快马加鞭准备2008年奥运会。

Many times, they truly need someone who can hit the ground running.

许多时候他们真正需要地是一个能立即快马加鞭地开展工作的人。

An Inner Critic can indeed roust you out of bed in the morning, get you on the treadmill ( literally and figuratively) and spur you to finish that book or symphony or invention.

自我怀疑的确能在清晨把你从床上唤起，敦促你快马加鞭地干活，尽快去完成手头那本书、那支曲子或是那项发明。

Last seen galloping South in some haste. We stand behind you, Lord Stark. Steward: All hail his Grace,

据报正快马加鞭往南赶.我们支持你，史塔克大人.全体恭迎…

We must ride for it, gentlemen.

绅士们，我们必须快马加鞭。

I rode at a killing pace.

我拼命地快马加鞭奔驰。

Looking at your website, and comparing it with those of your competitors, I think you should streamline the site and emphasis the recent upgrades to your products.

我仔细浏览过贵公司的网站，并于各竞争者做过对比，我认为，将网点流线化会使贵公司快马加鞭，另外，重中之重是，升级优化主要产品。

Gallop through one's work, a lecture, a performance.

快马加鞭做完工作、讲完课、结束表演。

They've got to really hit the ground running,' says Gene Anderson, the school's dean.

学院院长基恩•安德森（Gene Anderson）说，他们需要立即快马加鞭行动起来。

I've been working like nobody's business to get it finished in time.

为按时完成任务，我一直在快马加鞭地工作。

While Bill races to find a solution to telomere-shortening,

当比尔正在快马加鞭地寻找解决端粒缩短的方法时

In horse racing, a jockey who's winning by a wide margin doesn't need to whip his horse to go faster, and can win with his "hands down." The phrase soon caught on outside the sporting world.

在赛马中，如果一名骑手觉得自己胜券在握，就不需快马加鞭，而是可以“垂着双手”就赢得胜利。这句习语迅速在体育圈之外流行了起来。

You text me to rush over here and now you want me to wait.

你发短信给我，让我快马加鞭地赶过来，现在却让我傻乎乎地等你。

Let us gallop through our work.

让我们快马加鞭做完工作。

We need to move forward very fast.

我们需要快马加鞭。

But love is a breeze compared to accelerating an audit.

爱情需要和风细雨，但审计必须快马加鞭。

We just need something-anything-in our lives with a more urgent claim on our time than work to make us whip through the tasks in a jiffy.

我们只需要生活中出现一些比工作更紧急的事——任何事——来让自己快马加鞭地完成工作。

Where messengers previously took days on horse back, over hundreds of miles and across every kind of terrain, now the country's 50000 mile telegraph network means communication is almost instantaneous.

曾经传令员需要花费数日快马加鞭数百英里跋山涉水才可以将信息送达现在全国50000英里的电报网意味着通讯几乎是在瞬间完成