1、accelerate
（使）加快；（使）增速
Growth will accelerate to 2.9 per cent next year.
明年的增長會加快到2.9%。
The government is to accelerate its privatisation programme.
政府將加快其私有化計劃的進程。
（運動中的車輛）加速
Suddenly the car accelerated.
汽車突然加速。
She accelerated away from the kerb.
她加速駛離了馬路牙子。
2、end up
(通常指意外地)最終到達(dá)
The result was that the engine ended up at the bottom of the canal.
結(jié)果引擎最終沉到了運河底。
She fled with her children, moving from neighbour to neighbour and ending up in a friend's cellar.
她帶著孩子逃亡，從一個鄰居家跑到另一個鄰居家，最后逃到了一個朋友的地下室。
最終；結(jié)果；到頭來
If you don't know what you want, you might end up getting something you don't want.
如果你不知道自己想要什么，到頭來你可能得非所愿。
Every time they went dancing they ended up in a bad mood.
每次他們?nèi)ヌ瑁紩粴g而散。