at a spanking pace/rateold-fashionedFAST/QUICK very fast 快速地 They started walking at a spanking rate. 他们开始疾走。
at a spanking pace/rate• In the distance, ponies in long-shafted light chariots trotted at a spanking pace, the wheels spinning around.
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