Definition of immediate in English:

immediate

adjective ɪˈmiːdɪətɪˈmidiət

1Occurring or done at once; instant.
立即的，即刻的，即时的
the authorities took no immediate action
当局没有采取立即行动。
the book's success was immediate
这本书立即获得了成功。
Example sentencesExamples
- Anyone caught breaching the ‘yellow card’ will face immediate arrest and an instant sentence of three months.
- If your child is very dehydrated, she needs immediate medical attention.
- I think there is more immediate gratification with this.
- As a result, our impact was almost immediate.
- There is no question but that the impact of this on confidence will be immediate.
- Their response was almost immediate and crucially telling.
- What were the immediate reactions of the students in the aftermath of September 11?
- The advertisement showed no recognition that immediate gratification usually presents a bill, with extortionate interest.
- One immediate practical effect in the area of residential care could be an increase in insurance premiums.
- This was the blunt message delivered at a public meeting on Friday last, a message which prompted the immediate establishment of an action group to save the historic house.
- Physiological recordings from the central nervous system indicate that the response is almost immediate with a very short latency.
- The most immediate impact is the rapid water and solute loss caused by tissue damage.
- Somebody who has collapsed as a result of a cardiac arrest needs immediate attention.
- However, these concepts are introduced all at once with no immediate application for the student.
- Do we not have the technology to make a deodorant immediate and long-lasting?
- Brown's response to this fundamental problem was immediate, once it had been brought to his attention.
- Don't try to make it happen all at once and expect immediate physical change.
- But at that time, see, it's all about instant gratification, immediate gratification.
- I was instantly smitten with the immediate gratification.
- This in turn has triggered the disappearance of a system of symbols that once enabled immediate identification of a woman's status.
Synonyms
instant, instantaneous, on-the-spot, prompt, swift, speedy, rapid, quick, expeditious
sudden, hurried, hasty, precipitate, abrupt
lightning, whirlwind, overnight
informal snappy, p.d.q. (pretty damn quick)
literary fleet, rathe
rare alacritous
1. 1.1 Relating to or existing at the present time.
  目前的，当前的
  the immediate concern was how to avoid taxes
  当务之急是如何避免税务。
  Example sentencesExamples
  More than the big picture, look at the immediate, present needs.
  I would have told her more - or maybe I couldn't have - but I knew nothing beyond the immediate present.
  Get people to voice their immediate current concerns or questions.
  The world's populations live in the present, and their immediate needs have to be addressed.
  Motown execs are right about one thing: there's little immediate threat of a financial collapse.
  And once the immediate conflict was over, why did he disappear?
  There are big issues of governance, debt, aid, trade and development that will have to be addressed once the immediate crisis management is over.
  The prisoner's continued liberty or, as the case may be, immediate release, would present an unacceptable risk to the public of further offences being committed.
  Of more immediate concern is what banks need to do when presented with a freezing order.
  The court heard the infestation presented an immediate risk of injury to health.
  Adams, who has two children in primary school, feels there has to be radical overhaul of the way council services are organised once this immediate crisis is over.
  In the meantime, the defendant is released on her own recognizance, as she presents no immediate threat to the artistic community.
  This kind of analysis is really just the product of a false hindsight that tends to see the past through the lenses of the immediate present.
  Mr Gill said there would be no speedy return to normality once the immediate foot and mouth crisis is over.
  Kaizen appears particularly successful in shaping commitment once the immediate threat to jobs has disappeared.
  The Rural Forum aims to find long-term ways of re-building a strong, sustainable and more diverse rural economy, once the immediate farming crisis has been dealt with.
  Last Thursday, a high-profile military booster in Congress suddenly shattered the conventional wisdom that immediate withdrawal is unthinkable.
  They are hopeful however that once the immediate uncertainty abates there would be a quick return of consumer confidence.
  Once the immediate impact of the flooding has passed, the government, the opposition and the media will drop their feigned concern and leave the victims to their fate.
  Although it is stressful for babies to cry alone, there is no evidence that crying in a parent's arras is harmful, once all immediate needs are met.
  Synonyms
  current, present, existing, existent, actual, extant
  urgent, pressing
  archaic instant
2Nearest in time, relationship, or rank.
（时间）最近的，（关系）最亲的，（地位）最接近的
no changes are envisaged in the immediate future
his immediate superior in the department
Example sentencesExamples
- It coexists with the real possibility of mainstream status, whether that status lies in the immediate past or near future.
- However, the toilet block will be kept closed for the immediate future and a campaign will be mounted to ensure the toilets are returned to the use of law-abiding citizens.
- Close and prolonged contact, such as that found within immediate families and households, is usually required for there to be any likelihood of the infection being spread.
- There will be some plenary sessions as well as time for the presentation of papers from outside the immediate concerns of the organisers.
- In the more immediate future, the company has a few twists on the way.
- As daylight drew close, she began to think about the immediate future.
- I'm very close to my immediate family, with the exception of my father
- She knew that she shouldn't trust anyone outside of her immediate family or tiny group of close friends.
- Both weddings have had about 30 guests - just immediate family and close friends - and both have used restaurants for their reception.
- He said about seven of the boy's immediate family and close friends had been given antibiotics.
- Close ties with immediate and extended families are an important aspect of Colombian life, providing support in many aspects of life.
- He longs to return to the country of his birth, but he knows that there is no immediate future for him or his family there.
- I hope it's my immediate family and some close friends and a keg of beer.
- What kind of relationships have you established with the immediate families, relatives and friends of the victims?
- Both candidates are looking to history and not to the immediate present.
- You're very close with your immediate family in Brussels.
- We don't even know how we would get aid in the immediate aftermath.
- All 13 members of his immediate family attended a memorial service in New York yesterday.
- Confident in their ability to manager without state support, and close to their immediate family, they tend to live in towns in the more prosperous Southern and Midland towns.
- Though they portrayed an ebullient mix of hope and despair about the immediate and distant future of ecology, there was also a wealth of information on how to overcome the problems.
Synonyms
recent, not long past, just gone
occurring recently
1. 2.1 Nearest or next to in space.
  紧挨的，邻近的
  roads in the immediate vicinity of the port
  港口的邻近道路。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Individually, stones help us focus on a particular energy, by wearing them or enjoying their presence in our immediate environment.
  At our feet stretched a shimmering sheet of water, its surface, in our immediate vicinity, black with countless gondolas, the men standing up in them clamouring loudly for custom.
  There are schools, shops, restaurants and sports clubs in the immediate vicinity.
  The ban forbids smoking anywhere which is considered council property, including the Guildhall yard and in the immediate vicinity of authority buildings.
  ‘All of the damage was confined to the barge and the very immediate vicinity, within yards,’ Mr Bloomberg said.
  They say a retreat in the immediate presence of the enemy is the most difficult of military maneuvers to pull off.
  There were claims that an undercover security force team was operating in the immediate vicinity that night and helped ‘set up’ the three republicans.
  I make an attempt to fight the heavy-duty gravity imposed upon the immediate space around my body, and ease myself out of the bed.
  Copulations were observed on three occasions, all in the immediate vicinity of nests.
  To date I am still receiving complaints from residents and workers in the immediate vicinity that the smell at times is overpowering and unbearable.
  Rather it was a sense of living in the present, appreciating my immediate environment, and giving feelings equal footing with ideas.
  Actually, a baby lives in, and loves, her immediate space.
  Unfortunately, all of them fall in our immediate or near proximity, and we happen to be vulnerable in any case.
  He also disputed the number of car parking spaces, which reputedly would be available in the immediate vicinity of the licensed premises.
  There is only one coffee bar in the immediate area, for instance.
  Fortunately, there were no other vehicles or pedestrians in the immediate vicinity at the time as the trailer glided across the road and became embedded in a stone wall.
  They use gestures, exaggerated voices, or pronouncements to represent things that are not present in the immediate environment.
  Martin created a bit of a barrier of folded space around his immediate vicinity.
  Pedestrians, drivers and pets have been hurt and killed in the immediate vicinity of my home and I am happy that the changes will slow down all vehicles and increase the safety of every road user.
  It's not extensive enough and talking to people in the immediate vicinity is not sufficient.
  Synonyms
  nearest, near, close, closest, next-door
  adjacent, adjoining, abutting, contiguous, proximate
2. 2.2 (of a relation or action) without an intervening medium or agency; direct.
  （关系，行动）直接的
  coronary thrombosis was the immediate cause of death
  冠状动脉血栓是死亡的直接原因。
  Example sentencesExamples
  ‘So far in museum exhibitions, the visitor was not placed in immediate contact with the past,’ he wrote.
  Catholicism, then, knows immediate presence rather than symbolism.
  The lesson is that, while all sorts of moments of illumination can occur, it is not to be expected that knowing this God will be instantaneous or immediate.
  This work brought her into immediate contact with those just surviving.
  Not so long ago, art galleries were often full of people looking at recognisable objects for which they felt an immediate connection.
  It further held, allowing the Commissioners' appeal, that on the facts the requisite ‘direct and immediate link’ was not established.
  The ticking of the new clock was an immediate presence in the dark bedroom.
  Where there is not immediate presence, account must be taken of the possibility of alterations in the circumstances, for which the defendant should not be responsible.
  The immediate connection between the ‘Void’ and our conceptions of chaos may not be explicit to many readers.
  Carbohydrates are the ones to watch here - since fats and proteins have little immediate effect on blood sugar.
  E-mails and mobiles make everything immediate and we are expected to do things immediately.
  But it has also presented an immediate and magnified picture of what war means on the ground, removed from any wider context of the political ends being pursued.
  But what I felt was the kind of fear that comes from being in the immediate presence of great evil.
  The national department of the environment and tourism said this material did not present an immediate danger to the environment as it was well-packed.
  The abolitionist movement developed primarily in the nations of Western Europe and their overseas offshoots, often without the immediate presence of legal slavery.
  Many historians working in Germany today have judged that that educative effort had little immediate effect on popular attitudes.
  The imitation did not represent the thing but was the thing and replaced the thing's immediate presence.
  It is a story that would be lacking without the immediate presence of the actress right there with you, telling you a tale with her whole being.
  The writer's deployment of language might be delightfully immediate, even teasingly trivial.
  The adult males' roars are often so loud and startling that first-time visitors are convinced they are in the immediate presence of a jaguar.
  Synonyms
  direct, primary
3Philosophy
(of knowledge or reaction) gained or shown without reasoning; intuitive.
〔哲〕（感知，反应）直觉的
Example sentencesExamples
- Hume had shown that no immediate knowledge of causes is possible, for we have no impression of necessary connection.
- Knowledge that is immediate may supply the premises for the inference of further knowledge, but even immediate knowledge depends on coherence.
- Heidegger grounded his philosophy in phenomenology, the close examination of the given field of immediate experience.
- A second feature of Kantian intuition is that it yields immediate knowledge.
- The notion allows Heidegger to avoid giving primacy to non-theoretical immediate experience.

Derivatives

immediateness

noun ɪˈmiːdɪətnəsɪˈmidiətnəs

The new writing space carries the promise of networks of communication through the intuitive immediateness of the Word.
Example sentencesExamples
- Like her other work, it is rich with observation and flights of language, revealing how this sensibility is malleable enough to adapt to the death-row murderess without sacrificing its immediateness and power.
- Although he stresses specificity and immediateness, his analysis shows the interconnections among labor, the trade unions, and political parties.

Origin

Late Middle English (in the sense 'nearest in space or order'): from Old French immediat, or from late Latin immediatus, from in- 'not' + mediatus 'intervening', past participle of mediare (see mediate).

Rhymes

intermediate

Definition of immediate in US English:

immediate

adjectiveɪˈmidiətiˈmēdēət

1Occurring or done at once; instant.
立即的，即刻的，即时的
the authorities took no immediate action
当局没有采取立即行动。
the book's success was immediate
这本书立即获得了成功。
Example sentencesExamples
- Don't try to make it happen all at once and expect immediate physical change.
- This in turn has triggered the disappearance of a system of symbols that once enabled immediate identification of a woman's status.
- Brown's response to this fundamental problem was immediate, once it had been brought to his attention.
- I was instantly smitten with the immediate gratification.
- As a result, our impact was almost immediate.
- I think there is more immediate gratification with this.
- There is no question but that the impact of this on confidence will be immediate.
- Their response was almost immediate and crucially telling.
- Anyone caught breaching the ‘yellow card’ will face immediate arrest and an instant sentence of three months.
- This was the blunt message delivered at a public meeting on Friday last, a message which prompted the immediate establishment of an action group to save the historic house.
- One immediate practical effect in the area of residential care could be an increase in insurance premiums.
- But at that time, see, it's all about instant gratification, immediate gratification.
- Somebody who has collapsed as a result of a cardiac arrest needs immediate attention.
- The advertisement showed no recognition that immediate gratification usually presents a bill, with extortionate interest.
- If your child is very dehydrated, she needs immediate medical attention.
- The most immediate impact is the rapid water and solute loss caused by tissue damage.
- However, these concepts are introduced all at once with no immediate application for the student.
- Do we not have the technology to make a deodorant immediate and long-lasting?
- Physiological recordings from the central nervous system indicate that the response is almost immediate with a very short latency.
- What were the immediate reactions of the students in the aftermath of September 11?
Synonyms
instant, instantaneous, on-the-spot, prompt, swift, speedy, rapid, quick, expeditious
1. 1.1 Relating to or existing at the present time.
  目前的，当前的
  the immediate concern was how to avoid taxes
  当务之急是如何避免税务。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Of more immediate concern is what banks need to do when presented with a freezing order.
  Mr Gill said there would be no speedy return to normality once the immediate foot and mouth crisis is over.
  In the meantime, the defendant is released on her own recognizance, as she presents no immediate threat to the artistic community.
  The prisoner's continued liberty or, as the case may be, immediate release, would present an unacceptable risk to the public of further offences being committed.
  Although it is stressful for babies to cry alone, there is no evidence that crying in a parent's arras is harmful, once all immediate needs are met.
  The Rural Forum aims to find long-term ways of re-building a strong, sustainable and more diverse rural economy, once the immediate farming crisis has been dealt with.
  Once the immediate impact of the flooding has passed, the government, the opposition and the media will drop their feigned concern and leave the victims to their fate.
  Get people to voice their immediate current concerns or questions.
  There are big issues of governance, debt, aid, trade and development that will have to be addressed once the immediate crisis management is over.
  The court heard the infestation presented an immediate risk of injury to health.
  They are hopeful however that once the immediate uncertainty abates there would be a quick return of consumer confidence.
  This kind of analysis is really just the product of a false hindsight that tends to see the past through the lenses of the immediate present.
  Kaizen appears particularly successful in shaping commitment once the immediate threat to jobs has disappeared.
  More than the big picture, look at the immediate, present needs.
  I would have told her more - or maybe I couldn't have - but I knew nothing beyond the immediate present.
  And once the immediate conflict was over, why did he disappear?
  Motown execs are right about one thing: there's little immediate threat of a financial collapse.
  Adams, who has two children in primary school, feels there has to be radical overhaul of the way council services are organised once this immediate crisis is over.
  The world's populations live in the present, and their immediate needs have to be addressed.
  Last Thursday, a high-profile military booster in Congress suddenly shattered the conventional wisdom that immediate withdrawal is unthinkable.
  Synonyms
  current, present, existing, existent, actual, extant
2Nearest in time, relationship, or rank.
（时间）最近的，（关系）最亲的，（地位）最接近的
a funeral with only the immediate family in attendance
只有直系亲属出席的葬礼。
Example sentencesExamples
- You're very close with your immediate family in Brussels.
- She knew that she shouldn't trust anyone outside of her immediate family or tiny group of close friends.
- However, the toilet block will be kept closed for the immediate future and a campaign will be mounted to ensure the toilets are returned to the use of law-abiding citizens.
- Both candidates are looking to history and not to the immediate present.
- He longs to return to the country of his birth, but he knows that there is no immediate future for him or his family there.
- I'm very close to my immediate family, with the exception of my father
- Close and prolonged contact, such as that found within immediate families and households, is usually required for there to be any likelihood of the infection being spread.
- Confident in their ability to manager without state support, and close to their immediate family, they tend to live in towns in the more prosperous Southern and Midland towns.
- In the more immediate future, the company has a few twists on the way.
- There will be some plenary sessions as well as time for the presentation of papers from outside the immediate concerns of the organisers.
- Though they portrayed an ebullient mix of hope and despair about the immediate and distant future of ecology, there was also a wealth of information on how to overcome the problems.
- He said about seven of the boy's immediate family and close friends had been given antibiotics.
- Both weddings have had about 30 guests - just immediate family and close friends - and both have used restaurants for their reception.
- What kind of relationships have you established with the immediate families, relatives and friends of the victims?
- All 13 members of his immediate family attended a memorial service in New York yesterday.
- Close ties with immediate and extended families are an important aspect of Colombian life, providing support in many aspects of life.
- We don't even know how we would get aid in the immediate aftermath.
- I hope it's my immediate family and some close friends and a keg of beer.
- It coexists with the real possibility of mainstream status, whether that status lies in the immediate past or near future.
- As daylight drew close, she began to think about the immediate future.
Synonyms
recent, not long past, just gone
1. 2.1 Nearest or next to in space.
  紧挨的，邻近的
  roads in the immediate vicinity of the port
  港口的邻近道路。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Martin created a bit of a barrier of folded space around his immediate vicinity.
  They use gestures, exaggerated voices, or pronouncements to represent things that are not present in the immediate environment.
  He also disputed the number of car parking spaces, which reputedly would be available in the immediate vicinity of the licensed premises.
  The ban forbids smoking anywhere which is considered council property, including the Guildhall yard and in the immediate vicinity of authority buildings.
  Actually, a baby lives in, and loves, her immediate space.
  Fortunately, there were no other vehicles or pedestrians in the immediate vicinity at the time as the trailer glided across the road and became embedded in a stone wall.
  ‘All of the damage was confined to the barge and the very immediate vicinity, within yards,’ Mr Bloomberg said.
  Unfortunately, all of them fall in our immediate or near proximity, and we happen to be vulnerable in any case.
  I make an attempt to fight the heavy-duty gravity imposed upon the immediate space around my body, and ease myself out of the bed.
  It's not extensive enough and talking to people in the immediate vicinity is not sufficient.
  At our feet stretched a shimmering sheet of water, its surface, in our immediate vicinity, black with countless gondolas, the men standing up in them clamouring loudly for custom.
  There are schools, shops, restaurants and sports clubs in the immediate vicinity.
  Copulations were observed on three occasions, all in the immediate vicinity of nests.
  They say a retreat in the immediate presence of the enemy is the most difficult of military maneuvers to pull off.
  There were claims that an undercover security force team was operating in the immediate vicinity that night and helped ‘set up’ the three republicans.
  Rather it was a sense of living in the present, appreciating my immediate environment, and giving feelings equal footing with ideas.
  There is only one coffee bar in the immediate area, for instance.
  To date I am still receiving complaints from residents and workers in the immediate vicinity that the smell at times is overpowering and unbearable.
  Pedestrians, drivers and pets have been hurt and killed in the immediate vicinity of my home and I am happy that the changes will slow down all vehicles and increase the safety of every road user.
  Individually, stones help us focus on a particular energy, by wearing them or enjoying their presence in our immediate environment.
  Synonyms
  nearest, near, close, closest, next-door
2. 2.2 (of a relation or action) without an intervening medium or agency; direct.
  （关系，行动）直接的
  coronary thrombosis was the immediate cause of death
  冠状动脉血栓是死亡的直接原因。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Where there is not immediate presence, account must be taken of the possibility of alterations in the circumstances, for which the defendant should not be responsible.
  This work brought her into immediate contact with those just surviving.
  Many historians working in Germany today have judged that that educative effort had little immediate effect on popular attitudes.
  But what I felt was the kind of fear that comes from being in the immediate presence of great evil.
  The adult males' roars are often so loud and startling that first-time visitors are convinced they are in the immediate presence of a jaguar.
  The ticking of the new clock was an immediate presence in the dark bedroom.
  The immediate connection between the ‘Void’ and our conceptions of chaos may not be explicit to many readers.
  The national department of the environment and tourism said this material did not present an immediate danger to the environment as it was well-packed.
  Not so long ago, art galleries were often full of people looking at recognisable objects for which they felt an immediate connection.
  Carbohydrates are the ones to watch here - since fats and proteins have little immediate effect on blood sugar.
  E-mails and mobiles make everything immediate and we are expected to do things immediately.
  It is a story that would be lacking without the immediate presence of the actress right there with you, telling you a tale with her whole being.
  The abolitionist movement developed primarily in the nations of Western Europe and their overseas offshoots, often without the immediate presence of legal slavery.
  The writer's deployment of language might be delightfully immediate, even teasingly trivial.
  ‘So far in museum exhibitions, the visitor was not placed in immediate contact with the past,’ he wrote.
  Catholicism, then, knows immediate presence rather than symbolism.
  The imitation did not represent the thing but was the thing and replaced the thing's immediate presence.
  It further held, allowing the Commissioners' appeal, that on the facts the requisite ‘direct and immediate link’ was not established.
  But it has also presented an immediate and magnified picture of what war means on the ground, removed from any wider context of the political ends being pursued.
  The lesson is that, while all sorts of moments of illumination can occur, it is not to be expected that knowing this God will be instantaneous or immediate.
  Synonyms
  direct, primary
3Philosophy
(of knowledge or reaction) gained or shown without reasoning; intuitive.
〔哲〕（感知，反应）直觉的
Example sentencesExamples
- Hume had shown that no immediate knowledge of causes is possible, for we have no impression of necessary connection.
- The notion allows Heidegger to avoid giving primacy to non-theoretical immediate experience.
- Knowledge that is immediate may supply the premises for the inference of further knowledge, but even immediate knowledge depends on coherence.
- A second feature of Kantian intuition is that it yields immediate knowledge.
- Heidegger grounded his philosophy in phenomenology, the close examination of the given field of immediate experience.

Origin

Late Middle English (in the sense ‘nearest in space or order’): from Old French immediat, or from late Latin immediatus, from in- ‘not’ + mediatus ‘intervening’, past participle of mediare (see mediate).

词汇	immediate
释义	Definition of immediate in English: immediate adjective ɪˈmiːdɪətɪˈmidiət 1Occurring or done at once; instant. 立即的，即刻的，即时的 the authorities took no immediate action 当局没有采取立即行动。 the book's success was immediate 这本书立即获得了成功。 Example sentencesExamples Anyone caught breaching the ‘yellow card’ will face immediate arrest and an instant sentence of three months. If your child is very dehydrated, she needs immediate medical attention. I think there is more immediate gratification with this. As a result, our impact was almost immediate. There is no question but that the impact of this on confidence will be immediate. Their response was almost immediate and crucially telling. What were the immediate reactions of the students in the aftermath of September 11? The advertisement showed no recognition that immediate gratification usually presents a bill, with extortionate interest. One immediate practical effect in the area of residential care could be an increase in insurance premiums. This was the blunt message delivered at a public meeting on Friday last, a message which prompted the immediate establishment of an action group to save the historic house. Physiological recordings from the central nervous system indicate that the response is almost immediate with a very short latency. The most immediate impact is the rapid water and solute loss caused by tissue damage. Somebody who has collapsed as a result of a cardiac arrest needs immediate attention. However, these concepts are introduced all at once with no immediate application for the student. Do we not have the technology to make a deodorant immediate and long-lasting? Brown's response to this fundamental problem was immediate, once it had been brought to his attention. Don't try to make it happen all at once and expect immediate physical change. But at that time, see, it's all about instant gratification, immediate gratification. I was instantly smitten with the immediate gratification. This in turn has triggered the disappearance of a system of symbols that once enabled immediate identification of a woman's status. Synonyms instant, instantaneous, on-the-spot, prompt, swift, speedy, rapid, quick, expeditious sudden, hurried, hasty, precipitate, abrupt lightning, whirlwind, overnight informal snappy, p.d.q. (pretty damn quick) literary fleet, rathe rare alacritous 1.1 Relating to or existing at the present time. 目前的，当前的 the immediate concern was how to avoid taxes 当务之急是如何避免税务。 Example sentencesExamples More than the big picture, look at the immediate, present needs. I would have told her more - or maybe I couldn't have - but I knew nothing beyond the immediate present. Get people to voice their immediate current concerns or questions. The world's populations live in the present, and their immediate needs have to be addressed. Motown execs are right about one thing: there's little immediate threat of a financial collapse. And once the immediate conflict was over, why did he disappear? There are big issues of governance, debt, aid, trade and development that will have to be addressed once the immediate crisis management is over. The prisoner's continued liberty or, as the case may be, immediate release, would present an unacceptable risk to the public of further offences being committed. Of more immediate concern is what banks need to do when presented with a freezing order. The court heard the infestation presented an immediate risk of injury to health. Adams, who has two children in primary school, feels there has to be radical overhaul of the way council services are organised once this immediate crisis is over. In the meantime, the defendant is released on her own recognizance, as she presents no immediate threat to the artistic community. This kind of analysis is really just the product of a false hindsight that tends to see the past through the lenses of the immediate present. Mr Gill said there would be no speedy return to normality once the immediate foot and mouth crisis is over. Kaizen appears particularly successful in shaping commitment once the immediate threat to jobs has disappeared. The Rural Forum aims to find long-term ways of re-building a strong, sustainable and more diverse rural economy, once the immediate farming crisis has been dealt with. Last Thursday, a high-profile military booster in Congress suddenly shattered the conventional wisdom that immediate withdrawal is unthinkable. They are hopeful however that once the immediate uncertainty abates there would be a quick return of consumer confidence. Once the immediate impact of the flooding has passed, the government, the opposition and the media will drop their feigned concern and leave the victims to their fate. Although it is stressful for babies to cry alone, there is no evidence that crying in a parent's arras is harmful, once all immediate needs are met. Synonyms current, present, existing, existent, actual, extant urgent, pressing archaic instant 2Nearest in time, relationship, or rank. （时间）最近的，（关系）最亲的，（地位）最接近的 no changes are envisaged in the immediate future his immediate superior in the department Example sentencesExamples It coexists with the real possibility of mainstream status, whether that status lies in the immediate past or near future. However, the toilet block will be kept closed for the immediate future and a campaign will be mounted to ensure the toilets are returned to the use of law-abiding citizens. Close and prolonged contact, such as that found within immediate families and households, is usually required for there to be any likelihood of the infection being spread. There will be some plenary sessions as well as time for the presentation of papers from outside the immediate concerns of the organisers. In the more immediate future, the company has a few twists on the way. As daylight drew close, she began to think about the immediate future. I'm very close to my immediate family, with the exception of my father She knew that she shouldn't trust anyone outside of her immediate family or tiny group of close friends. Both weddings have had about 30 guests - just immediate family and close friends - and both have used restaurants for their reception. He said about seven of the boy's immediate family and close friends had been given antibiotics. Close ties with immediate and extended families are an important aspect of Colombian life, providing support in many aspects of life. He longs to return to the country of his birth, but he knows that there is no immediate future for him or his family there. I hope it's my immediate family and some close friends and a keg of beer. What kind of relationships have you established with the immediate families, relatives and friends of the victims? Both candidates are looking to history and not to the immediate present. You're very close with your immediate family in Brussels. We don't even know how we would get aid in the immediate aftermath. All 13 members of his immediate family attended a memorial service in New York yesterday. Confident in their ability to manager without state support, and close to their immediate family, they tend to live in towns in the more prosperous Southern and Midland towns. Though they portrayed an ebullient mix of hope and despair about the immediate and distant future of ecology, there was also a wealth of information on how to overcome the problems. Synonyms recent, not long past, just gone occurring recently 2.1 Nearest or next to in space. 紧挨的，邻近的 roads in the immediate vicinity of the port 港口的邻近道路。 Example sentencesExamples Individually, stones help us focus on a particular energy, by wearing them or enjoying their presence in our immediate environment. At our feet stretched a shimmering sheet of water, its surface, in our immediate vicinity, black with countless gondolas, the men standing up in them clamouring loudly for custom. There are schools, shops, restaurants and sports clubs in the immediate vicinity. The ban forbids smoking anywhere which is considered council property, including the Guildhall yard and in the immediate vicinity of authority buildings. ‘All of the damage was confined to the barge and the very immediate vicinity, within yards,’ Mr Bloomberg said. They say a retreat in the immediate presence of the enemy is the most difficult of military maneuvers to pull off. There were claims that an undercover security force team was operating in the immediate vicinity that night and helped ‘set up’ the three republicans. I make an attempt to fight the heavy-duty gravity imposed upon the immediate space around my body, and ease myself out of the bed. Copulations were observed on three occasions, all in the immediate vicinity of nests. To date I am still receiving complaints from residents and workers in the immediate vicinity that the smell at times is overpowering and unbearable. Rather it was a sense of living in the present, appreciating my immediate environment, and giving feelings equal footing with ideas. Actually, a baby lives in, and loves, her immediate space. Unfortunately, all of them fall in our immediate or near proximity, and we happen to be vulnerable in any case. He also disputed the number of car parking spaces, which reputedly would be available in the immediate vicinity of the licensed premises. There is only one coffee bar in the immediate area, for instance. Fortunately, there were no other vehicles or pedestrians in the immediate vicinity at the time as the trailer glided across the road and became embedded in a stone wall. They use gestures, exaggerated voices, or pronouncements to represent things that are not present in the immediate environment. Martin created a bit of a barrier of folded space around his immediate vicinity. Pedestrians, drivers and pets have been hurt and killed in the immediate vicinity of my home and I am happy that the changes will slow down all vehicles and increase the safety of every road user. It's not extensive enough and talking to people in the immediate vicinity is not sufficient. Synonyms nearest, near, close, closest, next-door adjacent, adjoining, abutting, contiguous, proximate 2.2 (of a relation or action) without an intervening medium or agency; direct. （关系，行动）直接的 coronary thrombosis was the immediate cause of death 冠状动脉血栓是死亡的直接原因。 Example sentencesExamples ‘So far in museum exhibitions, the visitor was not placed in immediate contact with the past,’ he wrote. Catholicism, then, knows immediate presence rather than symbolism. The lesson is that, while all sorts of moments of illumination can occur, it is not to be expected that knowing this God will be instantaneous or immediate. This work brought her into immediate contact with those just surviving. Not so long ago, art galleries were often full of people looking at recognisable objects for which they felt an immediate connection. It further held, allowing the Commissioners' appeal, that on the facts the requisite ‘direct and immediate link’ was not established. The ticking of the new clock was an immediate presence in the dark bedroom. Where there is not immediate presence, account must be taken of the possibility of alterations in the circumstances, for which the defendant should not be responsible. The immediate connection between the ‘Void’ and our conceptions of chaos may not be explicit to many readers. Carbohydrates are the ones to watch here - since fats and proteins have little immediate effect on blood sugar. E-mails and mobiles make everything immediate and we are expected to do things immediately. But it has also presented an immediate and magnified picture of what war means on the ground, removed from any wider context of the political ends being pursued. But what I felt was the kind of fear that comes from being in the immediate presence of great evil. The national department of the environment and tourism said this material did not present an immediate danger to the environment as it was well-packed. The abolitionist movement developed primarily in the nations of Western Europe and their overseas offshoots, often without the immediate presence of legal slavery. Many historians working in Germany today have judged that that educative effort had little immediate effect on popular attitudes. The imitation did not represent the thing but was the thing and replaced the thing's immediate presence. It is a story that would be lacking without the immediate presence of the actress right there with you, telling you a tale with her whole being. The writer's deployment of language might be delightfully immediate, even teasingly trivial. The adult males' roars are often so loud and startling that first-time visitors are convinced they are in the immediate presence of a jaguar. Synonyms direct, primary 3Philosophy (of knowledge or reaction) gained or shown without reasoning; intuitive. 〔哲〕（感知，反应）直觉的 Example sentencesExamples Hume had shown that no immediate knowledge of causes is possible, for we have no impression of necessary connection. Knowledge that is immediate may supply the premises for the inference of further knowledge, but even immediate knowledge depends on coherence. Heidegger grounded his philosophy in phenomenology, the close examination of the given field of immediate experience. A second feature of Kantian intuition is that it yields immediate knowledge. The notion allows Heidegger to avoid giving primacy to non-theoretical immediate experience. Derivatives immediateness noun ɪˈmiːdɪətnəsɪˈmidiətnəs The new writing space carries the promise of networks of communication through the intuitive immediateness of the Word. Example sentencesExamples Like her other work, it is rich with observation and flights of language, revealing how this sensibility is malleable enough to adapt to the death-row murderess without sacrificing its immediateness and power. Although he stresses specificity and immediateness, his analysis shows the interconnections among labor, the trade unions, and political parties. Origin Late Middle English (in the sense 'nearest in space or order'): from Old French immediat, or from late Latin immediatus, from in- 'not' + mediatus 'intervening', past participle of mediare (see mediate). Rhymes intermediate Definition of immediate in US English: immediate adjectiveɪˈmidiətiˈmēdēət 1Occurring or done at once; instant. 立即的，即刻的，即时的 the authorities took no immediate action 当局没有采取立即行动。 the book's success was immediate 这本书立即获得了成功。 Example sentencesExamples Don't try to make it happen all at once and expect immediate physical change. This in turn has triggered the disappearance of a system of symbols that once enabled immediate identification of a woman's status. Brown's response to this fundamental problem was immediate, once it had been brought to his attention. I was instantly smitten with the immediate gratification. As a result, our impact was almost immediate. I think there is more immediate gratification with this. There is no question but that the impact of this on confidence will be immediate. Their response was almost immediate and crucially telling. Anyone caught breaching the ‘yellow card’ will face immediate arrest and an instant sentence of three months. This was the blunt message delivered at a public meeting on Friday last, a message which prompted the immediate establishment of an action group to save the historic house. One immediate practical effect in the area of residential care could be an increase in insurance premiums. But at that time, see, it's all about instant gratification, immediate gratification. Somebody who has collapsed as a result of a cardiac arrest needs immediate attention. The advertisement showed no recognition that immediate gratification usually presents a bill, with extortionate interest. If your child is very dehydrated, she needs immediate medical attention. The most immediate impact is the rapid water and solute loss caused by tissue damage. However, these concepts are introduced all at once with no immediate application for the student. Do we not have the technology to make a deodorant immediate and long-lasting? Physiological recordings from the central nervous system indicate that the response is almost immediate with a very short latency. What were the immediate reactions of the students in the aftermath of September 11? Synonyms instant, instantaneous, on-the-spot, prompt, swift, speedy, rapid, quick, expeditious 1.1 Relating to or existing at the present time. 目前的，当前的 the immediate concern was how to avoid taxes 当务之急是如何避免税务。 Example sentencesExamples Of more immediate concern is what banks need to do when presented with a freezing order. Mr Gill said there would be no speedy return to normality once the immediate foot and mouth crisis is over. In the meantime, the defendant is released on her own recognizance, as she presents no immediate threat to the artistic community. The prisoner's continued liberty or, as the case may be, immediate release, would present an unacceptable risk to the public of further offences being committed. Although it is stressful for babies to cry alone, there is no evidence that crying in a parent's arras is harmful, once all immediate needs are met. The Rural Forum aims to find long-term ways of re-building a strong, sustainable and more diverse rural economy, once the immediate farming crisis has been dealt with. Once the immediate impact of the flooding has passed, the government, the opposition and the media will drop their feigned concern and leave the victims to their fate. Get people to voice their immediate current concerns or questions. There are big issues of governance, debt, aid, trade and development that will have to be addressed once the immediate crisis management is over. The court heard the infestation presented an immediate risk of injury to health. They are hopeful however that once the immediate uncertainty abates there would be a quick return of consumer confidence. This kind of analysis is really just the product of a false hindsight that tends to see the past through the lenses of the immediate present. Kaizen appears particularly successful in shaping commitment once the immediate threat to jobs has disappeared. More than the big picture, look at the immediate, present needs. I would have told her more - or maybe I couldn't have - but I knew nothing beyond the immediate present. And once the immediate conflict was over, why did he disappear? Motown execs are right about one thing: there's little immediate threat of a financial collapse. Adams, who has two children in primary school, feels there has to be radical overhaul of the way council services are organised once this immediate crisis is over. The world's populations live in the present, and their immediate needs have to be addressed. Last Thursday, a high-profile military booster in Congress suddenly shattered the conventional wisdom that immediate withdrawal is unthinkable. Synonyms current, present, existing, existent, actual, extant 2Nearest in time, relationship, or rank. （时间）最近的，（关系）最亲的，（地位）最接近的 a funeral with only the immediate family in attendance 只有直系亲属出席的葬礼。 Example sentencesExamples You're very close with your immediate family in Brussels. She knew that she shouldn't trust anyone outside of her immediate family or tiny group of close friends. However, the toilet block will be kept closed for the immediate future and a campaign will be mounted to ensure the toilets are returned to the use of law-abiding citizens. Both candidates are looking to history and not to the immediate present. He longs to return to the country of his birth, but he knows that there is no immediate future for him or his family there. I'm very close to my immediate family, with the exception of my father Close and prolonged contact, such as that found within immediate families and households, is usually required for there to be any likelihood of the infection being spread. Confident in their ability to manager without state support, and close to their immediate family, they tend to live in towns in the more prosperous Southern and Midland towns. In the more immediate future, the company has a few twists on the way. There will be some plenary sessions as well as time for the presentation of papers from outside the immediate concerns of the organisers. Though they portrayed an ebullient mix of hope and despair about the immediate and distant future of ecology, there was also a wealth of information on how to overcome the problems. He said about seven of the boy's immediate family and close friends had been given antibiotics. Both weddings have had about 30 guests - just immediate family and close friends - and both have used restaurants for their reception. What kind of relationships have you established with the immediate families, relatives and friends of the victims? All 13 members of his immediate family attended a memorial service in New York yesterday. Close ties with immediate and extended families are an important aspect of Colombian life, providing support in many aspects of life. We don't even know how we would get aid in the immediate aftermath. I hope it's my immediate family and some close friends and a keg of beer. It coexists with the real possibility of mainstream status, whether that status lies in the immediate past or near future. As daylight drew close, she began to think about the immediate future. Synonyms recent, not long past, just gone 2.1 Nearest or next to in space. 紧挨的，邻近的 roads in the immediate vicinity of the port 港口的邻近道路。 Example sentencesExamples Martin created a bit of a barrier of folded space around his immediate vicinity. They use gestures, exaggerated voices, or pronouncements to represent things that are not present in the immediate environment. He also disputed the number of car parking spaces, which reputedly would be available in the immediate vicinity of the licensed premises. The ban forbids smoking anywhere which is considered council property, including the Guildhall yard and in the immediate vicinity of authority buildings. Actually, a baby lives in, and loves, her immediate space. Fortunately, there were no other vehicles or pedestrians in the immediate vicinity at the time as the trailer glided across the road and became embedded in a stone wall. ‘All of the damage was confined to the barge and the very immediate vicinity, within yards,’ Mr Bloomberg said. Unfortunately, all of them fall in our immediate or near proximity, and we happen to be vulnerable in any case. I make an attempt to fight the heavy-duty gravity imposed upon the immediate space around my body, and ease myself out of the bed. It's not extensive enough and talking to people in the immediate vicinity is not sufficient. At our feet stretched a shimmering sheet of water, its surface, in our immediate vicinity, black with countless gondolas, the men standing up in them clamouring loudly for custom. There are schools, shops, restaurants and sports clubs in the immediate vicinity. Copulations were observed on three occasions, all in the immediate vicinity of nests. They say a retreat in the immediate presence of the enemy is the most difficult of military maneuvers to pull off. There were claims that an undercover security force team was operating in the immediate vicinity that night and helped ‘set up’ the three republicans. Rather it was a sense of living in the present, appreciating my immediate environment, and giving feelings equal footing with ideas. There is only one coffee bar in the immediate area, for instance. To date I am still receiving complaints from residents and workers in the immediate vicinity that the smell at times is overpowering and unbearable. Pedestrians, drivers and pets have been hurt and killed in the immediate vicinity of my home and I am happy that the changes will slow down all vehicles and increase the safety of every road user. Individually, stones help us focus on a particular energy, by wearing them or enjoying their presence in our immediate environment. Synonyms nearest, near, close, closest, next-door 2.2 (of a relation or action) without an intervening medium or agency; direct. （关系，行动）直接的 coronary thrombosis was the immediate cause of death 冠状动脉血栓是死亡的直接原因。 Example sentencesExamples Where there is not immediate presence, account must be taken of the possibility of alterations in the circumstances, for which the defendant should not be responsible. This work brought her into immediate contact with those just surviving. Many historians working in Germany today have judged that that educative effort had little immediate effect on popular attitudes. But what I felt was the kind of fear that comes from being in the immediate presence of great evil. The adult males' roars are often so loud and startling that first-time visitors are convinced they are in the immediate presence of a jaguar. The ticking of the new clock was an immediate presence in the dark bedroom. The immediate connection between the ‘Void’ and our conceptions of chaos may not be explicit to many readers. The national department of the environment and tourism said this material did not present an immediate danger to the environment as it was well-packed. Not so long ago, art galleries were often full of people looking at recognisable objects for which they felt an immediate connection. Carbohydrates are the ones to watch here - since fats and proteins have little immediate effect on blood sugar. E-mails and mobiles make everything immediate and we are expected to do things immediately. It is a story that would be lacking without the immediate presence of the actress right there with you, telling you a tale with her whole being. The abolitionist movement developed primarily in the nations of Western Europe and their overseas offshoots, often without the immediate presence of legal slavery. The writer's deployment of language might be delightfully immediate, even teasingly trivial. ‘So far in museum exhibitions, the visitor was not placed in immediate contact with the past,’ he wrote. Catholicism, then, knows immediate presence rather than symbolism. The imitation did not represent the thing but was the thing and replaced the thing's immediate presence. It further held, allowing the Commissioners' appeal, that on the facts the requisite ‘direct and immediate link’ was not established. But it has also presented an immediate and magnified picture of what war means on the ground, removed from any wider context of the political ends being pursued. The lesson is that, while all sorts of moments of illumination can occur, it is not to be expected that knowing this God will be instantaneous or immediate. Synonyms direct, primary 3Philosophy (of knowledge or reaction) gained or shown without reasoning; intuitive. 〔哲〕（感知，反应）直觉的 Example sentencesExamples Hume had shown that no immediate knowledge of causes is possible, for we have no impression of necessary connection. The notion allows Heidegger to avoid giving primacy to non-theoretical immediate experience. Knowledge that is immediate may supply the premises for the inference of further knowledge, but even immediate knowledge depends on coherence. A second feature of Kantian intuition is that it yields immediate knowledge. Heidegger grounded his philosophy in phenomenology, the close examination of the given field of immediate experience. Origin Late Middle English (in the sense ‘nearest in space or order’): from Old French immediat, or from late Latin immediatus, from in- ‘not’ + mediatus ‘intervening’, past participle of mediare (see mediate).
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