instant名词

1. 某一时刻
2. 顷刻，一刹那，一瞬间，瞬息
3. 速溶饮料(尤指速溶咖啡)

1. 立即的，即刻的，立刻的
2. 本月的，当月的
3. 迫切的，迫在眉睫的，紧迫的，紧急的
4. 速食的；即溶的；食物已配制好的
5. 直接的
6. 快速的，瞬息间的

1. 立即，即刻

1. [C]片刻,顷刻,刹那 a moment of time

1. [A]立即的 happening or produced at once
2. [A]即食的,立即可冲食的 (of food) which can be very quickly prepared for use

1.瞬息;顷刻;刹那
Aninstant is an extremely short period of time.

e.g. For aninstant, Catherine was tempted to flee...
有那么一会儿,凯瑟琳很想逃跑。
e.g. The pain disappeared in aninstant.
疼痛立刻就消失了。

2.(某一)时刻
If you say that something happensat a particularinstant, you mean that it happens at exactly the time you have been referring to, and you are usually suggesting that it happens quickly or immediately.

e.g. At thatinstant the museum was plunged into total darkness...
就在那时,博物馆陷入了一片漆黑。
e.g. In the sameinstant he flung open the car door.
与此同时,他猛地推开了车门。

3.一…(就)
To do somethingthe instant something else happens means to do it immediately.

e.g. I had bolted the door theinstant I had seen the bat.
我一看到蝙蝠就把门闩上了。

4.立即的;即刻的
You useinstant to describe something that happens immediately.

instant的翻译

e.g. Mr Porter's book was aninstant hit...
波特先生的书一经推出便大受欢迎。
e.g. He had taken aninstant dislike to Mortlake.
他一到莫特莱克就觉得不喜欢这个地方。

5.(食品)已配制好的，调制快速方便的，速溶的
Instant food is food that you can prepare very quickly, for example by just adding water.

e.g. ...instant coffee.
速溶咖啡

(at) the instant

一…就…as soon as

not for an instant

根本不not at all

this instant

立即,马上immediately

• He did see them, for a fleeting instant.

  出自：G. Orwell

• He has instant need of you.

  出自：J. H. Newman

moment，minute，instant

这些名词均含“瞬间、片刻”之意。

moment较minute所表示的时间短，指一刹那或一段很短时间，有时也含持续的意味。

minute指极短的时间，但可觉察到时间的持续。

instant常与moment换用，指一瞬间，但更侧重时间短促，多用于表示紧迫、瞬变等情况。