It's an urgent problem which calls for prompt attention. jí pò de rèn wù 急迫的任务 a pressing task wǒ tīng dào yǒu rén jí pò de qiāo mén 我听到有人急迫地敲门。 I heard an insistent knocking at the door. synonym jǐn jí紧急jǐn pò紧迫jí qiè急切 antonym cóng róng从容 ...
Protecting scientific research “from the insistent demands of applied research” became a central argument deployed by scientists as well as industry and politics (Weaver 1959: XIV; see also Greenewalt 1959: 128). Yet what was initially intended to protect scarce knowledge resources could, in the...