presto

/pres-toh/US // ˈprɛs toʊ //UK // (ˈprɛstəʊ) //

预备,预付,预备役,预付费用

Definitions

adv.副词 adverb

adj.形容词 adjective

n.名词 noun

adj.quickly

Synonyms

If you were a toothpaste company, you would donate tubes for all the athletes… and, presto, you were an Olympic sponsor.
Simply zap water with electricity, and presto, you’ve got hydrogen.
A shoplifter looks at the camera and presto, police use face recognition to identify a suspect.
“We used to go for food at a little Italian place on Old Compton Street called Presto,” says Burston.
By simply saying those nine simple words we can magically claim anything for Islam, presto-chango.
And presto: polio returned—first in Nigeria then across Africa and into Asia, following an established migration pattern.
Toss a Cinderella- or Stockholm Syndrome-type victim into the mix and presto!
But these people are wholly on wires; laying their ears down, skimming away, pausing as though shot, and presto!
Mr. Jefferson, happening by mistake to pass over one of the many names of benefactors, and, presto!
A clerk on a stool, and hey presto plunged into the war a month after, shouldering a gun and marching.
Then Mrs. Spider came along, and she spun some glossy silk web over the places where the seams were, and presto-chango!
Victor had much difficulty in reading the notes readily and not confounding the terms adagio, , and sforzando.

Examples

If you were a toothpaste company, you would donate tubes for all the athletes… and, presto, you were an Olympic sponsor.

Simply zap water with electricity, and presto, you’ve got hydrogen.

A shoplifter looks at the camera and presto, police use face recognition to identify a suspect.

“We used to go for food at a little Italian place on Old Compton Street called Presto,” says Burston.

By simply saying those nine simple words we can magically claim anything for Islam, presto-chango.

And presto: polio returned—first in Nigeria then across Africa and into Asia, following an established migration pattern.

Toss a Cinderella- or Stockholm Syndrome-type victim into the mix and presto!

But these people are wholly on wires; laying their ears down, skimming away, pausing as though shot, and presto!

Mr. Jefferson, happening by mistake to pass over one of the many names of benefactors, and, presto!

A clerk on a stool, and hey presto plunged into the war a month after, shouldering a gun and marching.

Then Mrs. Spider came along, and she spun some glossy silk web over the places where the seams were, and presto-chango!

Victor had much difficulty in reading the notes readily and not confounding the terms adagio, , and sforzando.