Definition of instant in English:

instant

adjective ˈɪnst(ə)ntˈɪnstənt

1Happening or coming immediately.
立刻的，立即的
the offence justified instant dismissal
这次违规是立即免职的充分理由。
Example sentencesExamples
- What are they supposed to do - fester resentfully, or score a credit card and spend a month's salary on instant gratification?
- He demanded that million dollar severance payments be banned and that directors of large companies be made liable to instant dismissal.
- Right now, the object of the game is instant wealth.
- The home side took the lead but Carbury nearly had an instant response when an effort from Paul Masterson struck the post.
- The small earthenware exported to Malaysia three months ago was an instant hit there.
- Patients expect hospitals, like other businesses, to have instant access to data.
- The difference with OnePlan is that it gives borrowers instant access to this money via a mortgage chequebook.
- Shifting rubble too quickly can mean instant death for both Prakash Gore and the rescue team.
- If you go in expecting instant results, prepare to be disappointed.
- But intense pressure for instant e-business success has led many companies to open their doors before the paint's dry.
- Terry was so surprised at her instant reply, she quickly gave her a hug.
- But can these long-term goals overcome consumers' short attention spans and need for instant gratification?
- Even brands that have enjoyed decades of success and have instant recognition with consumers can lose some sparkle.
- If only some parts of your business need instant information, proceed accordingly.
- However, in some cases, instant dismissal may be justified if the conduct of the employee is serious and wilful.
- Not so with e-mail, which combines instant delivery with minimal effort.
- The proposed Employment Law Reform Bill will change the requirement for instant dismissal in the case of serious misconduct.
- There is now a need for instant hits that immediately grab the public attention - difficult when potential viewers have so many other options.
- A single telephone call there results in instant response.
- Erice gained instant popularity as a director of children; sweet and tender stories were expected of him.
Synonyms
immediate, instantaneous, on-the-spot, prompt, direct, swift, speedy, rapid, quick, expeditious, express, lightning, sudden, precipitate, abrupt
informal snappy, p.d.q. (pretty damn quick)
literary fleet, rathe
rare alacritous
1. 1.1 Prepared quickly and with little effort.
  立刻成就的，一蹴而就的
  we can't promise instant solutions
  我们不能保证马上就能解决。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Such instant solutions are neither necessary or desirable, said some traditional girlie publishers and printers.
  If his wife is pregnant, it's an instant solution to the problem; and the topic of constitutional reform can be put off for another few generations.
  So the Army is very seductive to them because it gives an instant solution to everything: Who am I?
  Barrichello explained there is no instant solution to the problem.
  The Minister warns the drought meeting will not provide instant solutions.
  They are mass-market plants for instant gardens, quickly transforming a space.
  Though the Internet and email may seem like an instant solution to many problems, people still run the technology.
  IN A world where practically everyone is in a hurry, there's a growing demand for instant solutions.
  There are no instant solutions to this and things can get out of hand.
  Importing more rice may be the instant solution, but increasing dependency on imported rice is not good.
  There is no reason to rush into anything just because it appears to provide humanity with instant solutions.
  No one is expecting instant solutions to problems that seem to be so deep-rooted as to be terminal.
  Like many from their ‘me’ generation, they want instant solutions to their problems.
  You get 12 recipes for the price of four plus an instant solution to what to do with leftovers.
  A beech hedge that keeps its russet-brown leaves right through winter is the perfect instant garden solution for a bare, brand new plot.
  It is clear there is no instant solution.
  Since it's so fun - and inexpensive too - why not surprise a friend or parent with an instant spring garden?
  If criminals were encouraged to conduct their own prosecutions, this would provide an instant solution to the problem of prison overcrowding.
  It's all about hard, elusive answers rather than easy, instant solutions.
  Of course, like other instant solutions to complex problems, it's not quite as simple as that, because the root is still there.
2. 1.2 (of food) processed to allow very quick preparation.
  （食品）方便的；即食的，速食的；速溶的
  instant coffee
  速溶咖啡。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Mark my wise words - start stocking up on yer instant food and tins!
  A heap of Scottish mince with instant pasta and cartoned passata can pass for lasagne.
  Now to move all the supplies - including blankets, instant food, water, canned food, milk, rice - to another train.
  Unless it's a new type of instant food product on an advert, obviously - that is a revolution too.
  Look at the stuff we ate then: Smash instant potato, Vesta curry and, an experimental addition to our school dinner menu, cheese meringue.
  Health Valley has a line of four fabulous instant hot cereal cups that have roughly half as much sugar as Quaker instant cereals.
  These markers indicate rices that are ideal for products such as canned soups or instant rice mixes.
  Called Lumberjack Pie, it consists of instant potato, Spam, baked beans and Cheddar cheese.
  Ruchi also has instant food mixes, spice powders and asafoetida under its belt, apart from a small presence in dates.
  The inflation rate edged up in December as a result of higher prices of key consumer products such as vegetable oil, soybean oil, and instant food.
  Pour 1 large box of instant chocolate pudding into a bowl along with 3 ½ cups milk.
  While instant food can never be as fresh or wholesome as how grandmother made it, it is a better option for hotel food, which is yet another reason for its growing popularity.
  Common high-glycemic foods include baked potatoes, boiled new potatoes, corn flakes, dates, and instant rice.
  Still, it focuses on cosmetics partially made by green tea, and instant foods made from green tea.
  Foods with high GI include white bread, potatoes, instant rice, and cornflakes.
  With their increasingly high consumption of snacks and instant foods, is there any hope?
  Just stir them in with a little of their oil, and you have instant pasta with wild mushrooms.
  No instant foods, no TV dinners, no cake mixes ever trespassed into my mother's kitchen.
  The team is urgently seeking storage space in the Tokyo Tower vicinity to keep bottled water, blankets, tents, canned and instant food and other supplies.
  Japanese instant snack noodles hope to dump their junk food status and soar to the higher gastronomical rank of space cuisine.
  Synonyms
  pre-prepared, ready prepared, ready mixed, pre-cooked, fast, easy/quick to prepare, easy/quick to make, microwaveable, convenience, TV
3. 1.3 (of a person) becoming a specified thing immediately.
  （人）立刻（或突然）成为…的
  become an instant millionaire
  一夜之间成为百万富翁。
  Example sentencesExamples
  He gets a wealthy financier to start a new company Digital Dreams and becomes an instant celebrity and millionaire.
  Called Winning Streak millionaire, it offers contestants a chance to become instant millionaires on television.
  That person will be afforded instant genius status.
  How everyday people became instant reporters with the help of cell phones and the Internet.
  I get annoyed by the people who become instant experts for a fortnight but couldn't tell you who won the French Open, played just the other week at Flushing Meadow.
  They went away for a quiet weekend and came home to find they were instant millionaires.
  We changed our money to Kip (we were instant millionaires), and the first thing I did with the money was pay for entering a washroom.
  That kind of effort made him an instant favorite among some of the team's veterans.
  There will be two free entry public competitions, one of which will turn one lucky patron into an instant millionaire.
  You will not become an overnight success, an instant millionaire or an Oscar winning actor.
  If someone could figure out a way to do this in the case of motor vehicles, he would be an instant millionaire.
  Not quite instant millionaire status, but what a return.
  There are still some countries in the world where you can become an instant millionaire.
  Sure, the lottery has produced winners, including a number of instant millionaires.
  Upon leaving public service, Holbrooke became an instant millionaire executive with Credit Suisse First Boston.
  Some Zambians and foreigners became instant millionaires driving posh cars like BMWs as a way to disguise proceeds of drug trafficking.
  Named the winner and an instant millionaire he wasted no time going down on bended knee to propose to his lady-love who accepted through tears of joy!
  A beachfront flea-market vendor here became an instant millionaire when he correctly matched six lotto numbers on Saturday.
  Palmer was in his prime in the days before golfers become instant millionaires the day they turned pro.
  Is there a downside to becoming an instant millionaire?
2dated Urgent; pressing.
紧急的，紧迫的，刻不容缓的
an instant desire to blame others when things go wrong
出错时责备他人的急切愿望。
Example sentencesExamples
- To most petrolheads the combined letters ‘XKR’ demands instant desire and respect, even if the person has never driven one.
- Here's what has changed: the presentation and the instant need to know.
Synonyms
current, present, existing, existent, actual, extant
3dated postpositive (in business letters) of the current month.
〈旧〉（商业信函用语）本月的
your letter of the 6th instant
您本月6日的来函。
Example sentencesExamples
- I have duly received your letter of the 8th instant, on the subject of the stone in your possession, supposed meteoric.
4archaic Of the present moment.
〈古〉此刻的，现时的
Example sentencesExamples
- In the instant case, the direction given by the judge has not been shown to be inappropriate in the circumstances.
- In the instant case, the direct given by the judge has not been shown to be inappropriate in the circumstances.

noun ˈɪnst(ə)ntˈɪnstənt

1A precise moment of time.
准确时刻
come here this instant!
立刻过来！
at that instant the sun came out
太阳在那一时刻探出了头。
Example sentencesExamples
- There is not enough bran in this book, not enough of the tangible grit of reality, happening at a specific instant in a precise place.
- Love, pain, longing and devotion are written across her face in a flash, sometimes in the same instant.
- In the same instant of realization, the water disappeared, replaced by a carpet of soft green moss.
- Muses of the moment, they have always known that the instant of illumination is that point of equilibrium between being and becoming.
- Our eyes met and there was a moment of perfect understanding, an instant of flawless empathy between two Beatle fans.
- A vernal equinox represents the instant at which the sun lies exactly between the north and south celestial poles.
- At the precise instant that both boys entered the astounding world of 3 - D, they emitted low moans of amazement.
- Both had answered at the same instant - doubtless a moment of revelation for Sara McArdle.
- There is usually only a very light pressure to overcome, and the precise target shooter wants the exact instant of the shot to come by surprise.
- Only rarely can poetry aid us in communing with others; that is a beautiful idealism, except at certain strange moments, like the instant of falling in love.
- Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim.
- The paralysis that had gripped him from the first instant of the flash slowly ebbed, and he crawled out from under the truck.
- Jessica thought she heard him cry out in agony and she reached out to try to pull him free, but in the next instant, Matthew Jones disappeared from sight.
- It is a sign that uses an abbreviated code for a specific instant of duration or registration of a sociological temporal moment.
- The day has to be right for this, and the evening perfectly balanced, but it's worth waiting for the precise instant of stillness before the stars come out and the pond is just a pond once more.
- Twice she saw the ‘green flash’, a brilliant flash of emerald green light on the horizon at the instant of the sun's setting.
- It was as though a dam had been filled to the point of breaking, and this moment was the instant of peace before the dam burst and sent forth the great flood.
- However, the fact remains your two groups activated the claw sensors at precisely the same instant.
- The equinoxes are the instants at which the Sun appears to cross the equator, on about March 20 and September 22 (the dates vary slightly with the leap-year cycle).
- I'm not sure which memory is scariest, the first flash of realisation, or the instant of thrill.
Synonyms
moment, time, point in time, moment in time, minute, second, hour
stage, phase, juncture, point
2A very short time; a moment.
瞬息，霎时；瞬间，片刻
for an instant the moon disappeared
有一刹那月亮消失了。
Example sentencesExamples
- Would she fade away slowly, or just disappear in an instant?
- The scene flashes through his memory in an instant.
- But when the children began to read the names, two years disappeared in an instant.
- Several bright comets streaked across the sky and then disappeared in an instant.
- The grey cat is startled as Firemane flashes by, but only for an instant.
- Ninety years ago, there were no television pictures, radio broadcasts or Internet bulletins to flash the news around the globe in an instant.
- But take to the practice field of the Calgary Rockies women's contact football team and thoughts of genteel femininity disappear in an instant.
- It proposes that you can make up your mind about something, and be invariably correct, in an instant; that snap judgment is often a more effective tool than detailed analysis.
- Something was happening tonight… the wind told her so, even if the moon did stunt her spirit for an instant.
- His life is like a cloud, it could disappear in an instant.
- The cheerful ring in his voice disappeared in an instant.
- Would you snap it up and upload to your site in an instant?
- Then all of sudden, Mitch's face burst like a fire into her mind, and she felt all her stupid feelings disappear in an instant.
- ‘I would like to think they would not make that mistake,’ he warned, the friendly smile disappearing for an instant.
- All of this, ever just below the surface of my thought, flashed across my mind in the instant between my question and his answer.
- He waved his hand, turned on his heel, and disappeared in an instant among the crowd.
- She had been so close to Toni - but their friendship had disappeared in an instant.
- The day flashed by in an instant for him; time seemed to only slow when he was occupied with something.
- It seemed to go faster suddenly and when the moon was completely covered a large, mansion like figure flashed in the sky but it was gone in an instant.
- But suddenly, the light flickered and flashed out in an instant.
Synonyms
short time, little while, bit, moment, minute, second, split second, trice, twinkling, twinkling of an eye, flash, (less than) no time, no time at all
informal sec, nanosecond, jiffy, jiff, two shakes of a lamb's tail, the blink of an eye
British informal mo, two ticks
North American informal snap
3informal mass noun Instant coffee.
〈非正式〉速溶咖啡
Example sentencesExamples
- Many sins are forgivable, but charging handsomely for coffee that comes directly from an outsized tin of own-label instant is not one of them.
- Do you prefer fresh coffee to instant and do you purchase mineral water?
- But anyone who has drunk freshly ground coffee and then reverted to instant will know what I'm talking about.

Phrases

on the instant

archaic Instantly; immediately.
he was thrown into the water, and on the instant the sea grew calm
Example sentencesExamples
- She handed it to him on the instant and he drank without halt while the bowl seemed to keep itself replenished.
- The laughter ceased on the instant, and fury took its place.
- But, on the instant, came the sweep and flash of Jonathan's great knife.
- He was thrown into the water, and on the instant the sea grew calm.
- I'm careful about how I report things on the instant.
Synonyms
immediately, instantly, at once, straight away, right away, instantaneously, suddenly, abruptly, all of a sudden, at a stroke, forthwith, then and there, there and then, here and now, that minute, this minute, that very minute, this very minute, that instant, this instant

Origin

Late Middle English (in sense 2 of the adjective, sense 3 of the adjective, sense 4 of the adjective): via Old French from Latin instant- 'being at hand', from the verb instare, from in- 'in, at' + stare 'to stand'.

Definition of instant in US English:

instant

adjectiveˈɪnstəntˈinstənt

1Happening or coming immediately.
立刻的，立即的
the offense justified instant dismissal
这次违规是立即免职的充分理由。
Example sentencesExamples
- What are they supposed to do - fester resentfully, or score a credit card and spend a month's salary on instant gratification?
- Even brands that have enjoyed decades of success and have instant recognition with consumers can lose some sparkle.
- The difference with OnePlan is that it gives borrowers instant access to this money via a mortgage chequebook.
- If you go in expecting instant results, prepare to be disappointed.
- But intense pressure for instant e-business success has led many companies to open their doors before the paint's dry.
- He demanded that million dollar severance payments be banned and that directors of large companies be made liable to instant dismissal.
- Shifting rubble too quickly can mean instant death for both Prakash Gore and the rescue team.
- Patients expect hospitals, like other businesses, to have instant access to data.
- The proposed Employment Law Reform Bill will change the requirement for instant dismissal in the case of serious misconduct.
- If only some parts of your business need instant information, proceed accordingly.
- A single telephone call there results in instant response.
- The small earthenware exported to Malaysia three months ago was an instant hit there.
- The home side took the lead but Carbury nearly had an instant response when an effort from Paul Masterson struck the post.
- However, in some cases, instant dismissal may be justified if the conduct of the employee is serious and wilful.
- There is now a need for instant hits that immediately grab the public attention - difficult when potential viewers have so many other options.
- Erice gained instant popularity as a director of children; sweet and tender stories were expected of him.
- But can these long-term goals overcome consumers' short attention spans and need for instant gratification?
- Terry was so surprised at her instant reply, she quickly gave her a hug.
- Not so with e-mail, which combines instant delivery with minimal effort.
- Right now, the object of the game is instant wealth.
Synonyms
immediate, instantaneous, on-the-spot, prompt, direct, swift, speedy, rapid, quick, expeditious, express, lightning, sudden, precipitate, abrupt
1. 1.1 Prepared quickly and with little effort.
  立刻成就的，一蹴而就的
  we can't promise instant solutions
  我们不能保证马上就能解决。
  Example sentencesExamples
  No one is expecting instant solutions to problems that seem to be so deep-rooted as to be terminal.
  If criminals were encouraged to conduct their own prosecutions, this would provide an instant solution to the problem of prison overcrowding.
  Such instant solutions are neither necessary or desirable, said some traditional girlie publishers and printers.
  A beech hedge that keeps its russet-brown leaves right through winter is the perfect instant garden solution for a bare, brand new plot.
  They are mass-market plants for instant gardens, quickly transforming a space.
  There are no instant solutions to this and things can get out of hand.
  It's all about hard, elusive answers rather than easy, instant solutions.
  There is no reason to rush into anything just because it appears to provide humanity with instant solutions.
  Of course, like other instant solutions to complex problems, it's not quite as simple as that, because the root is still there.
  Like many from their ‘me’ generation, they want instant solutions to their problems.
  If his wife is pregnant, it's an instant solution to the problem; and the topic of constitutional reform can be put off for another few generations.
  Importing more rice may be the instant solution, but increasing dependency on imported rice is not good.
  So the Army is very seductive to them because it gives an instant solution to everything: Who am I?
  The Minister warns the drought meeting will not provide instant solutions.
  It is clear there is no instant solution.
  Barrichello explained there is no instant solution to the problem.
  You get 12 recipes for the price of four plus an instant solution to what to do with leftovers.
  IN A world where practically everyone is in a hurry, there's a growing demand for instant solutions.
  Though the Internet and email may seem like an instant solution to many problems, people still run the technology.
  Since it's so fun - and inexpensive too - why not surprise a friend or parent with an instant spring garden?
2. 1.2 (of food) processed to allow quick preparation.
  （食品）方便的；即食的，速食的；速溶的
  instant coffee
  速溶咖啡。
  Example sentencesExamples
  No instant foods, no TV dinners, no cake mixes ever trespassed into my mother's kitchen.
  Common high-glycemic foods include baked potatoes, boiled new potatoes, corn flakes, dates, and instant rice.
  Foods with high GI include white bread, potatoes, instant rice, and cornflakes.
  Called Lumberjack Pie, it consists of instant potato, Spam, baked beans and Cheddar cheese.
  The team is urgently seeking storage space in the Tokyo Tower vicinity to keep bottled water, blankets, tents, canned and instant food and other supplies.
  Now to move all the supplies - including blankets, instant food, water, canned food, milk, rice - to another train.
  Pour 1 large box of instant chocolate pudding into a bowl along with 3 ½ cups milk.
  With their increasingly high consumption of snacks and instant foods, is there any hope?
  Unless it's a new type of instant food product on an advert, obviously - that is a revolution too.
  Just stir them in with a little of their oil, and you have instant pasta with wild mushrooms.
  Ruchi also has instant food mixes, spice powders and asafoetida under its belt, apart from a small presence in dates.
  Look at the stuff we ate then: Smash instant potato, Vesta curry and, an experimental addition to our school dinner menu, cheese meringue.
  Mark my wise words - start stocking up on yer instant food and tins!
  The inflation rate edged up in December as a result of higher prices of key consumer products such as vegetable oil, soybean oil, and instant food.
  While instant food can never be as fresh or wholesome as how grandmother made it, it is a better option for hotel food, which is yet another reason for its growing popularity.
  Still, it focuses on cosmetics partially made by green tea, and instant foods made from green tea.
  Health Valley has a line of four fabulous instant hot cereal cups that have roughly half as much sugar as Quaker instant cereals.
  These markers indicate rices that are ideal for products such as canned soups or instant rice mixes.
  Japanese instant snack noodles hope to dump their junk food status and soar to the higher gastronomical rank of space cuisine.
  A heap of Scottish mince with instant pasta and cartoned passata can pass for lasagne.
  Synonyms
  pre-prepared, ready prepared, ready mixed, pre-cooked, fast, easy to prepare, quick to prepare, easy to make, quick to make, microwaveable, convenience, tv
3. 1.3 (of a person) becoming a specified thing immediately or very suddenly.
  （人）立刻（或突然）成为…的
  become an instant millionaire
  一夜之间成为百万富翁。
  Example sentencesExamples
  There will be two free entry public competitions, one of which will turn one lucky patron into an instant millionaire.
  We changed our money to Kip (we were instant millionaires), and the first thing I did with the money was pay for entering a washroom.
  I get annoyed by the people who become instant experts for a fortnight but couldn't tell you who won the French Open, played just the other week at Flushing Meadow.
  A beachfront flea-market vendor here became an instant millionaire when he correctly matched six lotto numbers on Saturday.
  Sure, the lottery has produced winners, including a number of instant millionaires.
  Some Zambians and foreigners became instant millionaires driving posh cars like BMWs as a way to disguise proceeds of drug trafficking.
  You will not become an overnight success, an instant millionaire or an Oscar winning actor.
  If someone could figure out a way to do this in the case of motor vehicles, he would be an instant millionaire.
  They went away for a quiet weekend and came home to find they were instant millionaires.
  Palmer was in his prime in the days before golfers become instant millionaires the day they turned pro.
  Named the winner and an instant millionaire he wasted no time going down on bended knee to propose to his lady-love who accepted through tears of joy!
  How everyday people became instant reporters with the help of cell phones and the Internet.
  That kind of effort made him an instant favorite among some of the team's veterans.
  Is there a downside to becoming an instant millionaire?
  He gets a wealthy financier to start a new company Digital Dreams and becomes an instant celebrity and millionaire.
  Not quite instant millionaire status, but what a return.
  Upon leaving public service, Holbrooke became an instant millionaire executive with Credit Suisse First Boston.
  There are still some countries in the world where you can become an instant millionaire.
  Called Winning Streak millionaire, it offers contestants a chance to become instant millionaires on television.
  That person will be afforded instant genius status.
2dated Urgent; pressing.
紧急的，紧迫的，刻不容缓的
an instant desire to blame others when things go wrong
出错时责备他人的急切愿望。
Example sentencesExamples
- To most petrolheads the combined letters ‘XKR’ demands instant desire and respect, even if the person has never driven one.
- Here's what has changed: the presentation and the instant need to know.
Synonyms
current, present, existing, existent, actual, extant
3dated postpositive (in business letters) of the current month.
〈旧〉（商业信函用语）本月的
your letter of the 6th instant
您本月6日的来函。
Compare with proximo, ultimo
Example sentencesExamples
- I have duly received your letter of the 8th instant, on the subject of the stone in your possession, supposed meteoric.
4archaic Of the present moment.
〈古〉此刻的，现时的
Example sentencesExamples
- In the instant case, the direct given by the judge has not been shown to be inappropriate in the circumstances.
- In the instant case, the direction given by the judge has not been shown to be inappropriate in the circumstances.

nounˈɪnstəntˈinstənt

1A precise moment of time.
准确时刻
come here this instant!
立刻过来！
at that instant the sun came out
太阳在那一时刻探出了头。
Example sentencesExamples
- The equinoxes are the instants at which the Sun appears to cross the equator, on about March 20 and September 22 (the dates vary slightly with the leap-year cycle).
- In the same instant of realization, the water disappeared, replaced by a carpet of soft green moss.
- A vernal equinox represents the instant at which the sun lies exactly between the north and south celestial poles.
- Only rarely can poetry aid us in communing with others; that is a beautiful idealism, except at certain strange moments, like the instant of falling in love.
- Both had answered at the same instant - doubtless a moment of revelation for Sara McArdle.
- Muses of the moment, they have always known that the instant of illumination is that point of equilibrium between being and becoming.
- Love, pain, longing and devotion are written across her face in a flash, sometimes in the same instant.
- I'm not sure which memory is scariest, the first flash of realisation, or the instant of thrill.
- The paralysis that had gripped him from the first instant of the flash slowly ebbed, and he crawled out from under the truck.
- Twice she saw the ‘green flash’, a brilliant flash of emerald green light on the horizon at the instant of the sun's setting.
- However, the fact remains your two groups activated the claw sensors at precisely the same instant.
- Our eyes met and there was a moment of perfect understanding, an instant of flawless empathy between two Beatle fans.
- Jessica thought she heard him cry out in agony and she reached out to try to pull him free, but in the next instant, Matthew Jones disappeared from sight.
- It was as though a dam had been filled to the point of breaking, and this moment was the instant of peace before the dam burst and sent forth the great flood.
- Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim.
- There is not enough bran in this book, not enough of the tangible grit of reality, happening at a specific instant in a precise place.
- At the precise instant that both boys entered the astounding world of 3 - D, they emitted low moans of amazement.
- There is usually only a very light pressure to overcome, and the precise target shooter wants the exact instant of the shot to come by surprise.
- The day has to be right for this, and the evening perfectly balanced, but it's worth waiting for the precise instant of stillness before the stars come out and the pond is just a pond once more.
- It is a sign that uses an abbreviated code for a specific instant of duration or registration of a sociological temporal moment.
Synonyms
moment, time, point in time, moment in time, minute, second, hour
2A very short space of time; a moment.
瞬息，霎时；瞬间，片刻
for an instant the moon disappeared
有一刹那月亮消失了。
Example sentencesExamples
- ‘I would like to think they would not make that mistake,’ he warned, the friendly smile disappearing for an instant.
- The scene flashes through his memory in an instant.
- Then all of sudden, Mitch's face burst like a fire into her mind, and she felt all her stupid feelings disappear in an instant.
- It proposes that you can make up your mind about something, and be invariably correct, in an instant; that snap judgment is often a more effective tool than detailed analysis.
- His life is like a cloud, it could disappear in an instant.
- Ninety years ago, there were no television pictures, radio broadcasts or Internet bulletins to flash the news around the globe in an instant.
- But when the children began to read the names, two years disappeared in an instant.
- The day flashed by in an instant for him; time seemed to only slow when he was occupied with something.
- All of this, ever just below the surface of my thought, flashed across my mind in the instant between my question and his answer.
- Several bright comets streaked across the sky and then disappeared in an instant.
- Would you snap it up and upload to your site in an instant?
- The cheerful ring in his voice disappeared in an instant.
- But suddenly, the light flickered and flashed out in an instant.
- It seemed to go faster suddenly and when the moon was completely covered a large, mansion like figure flashed in the sky but it was gone in an instant.
- She had been so close to Toni - but their friendship had disappeared in an instant.
- But take to the practice field of the Calgary Rockies women's contact football team and thoughts of genteel femininity disappear in an instant.
- The grey cat is startled as Firemane flashes by, but only for an instant.
- He waved his hand, turned on his heel, and disappeared in an instant among the crowd.
- Would she fade away slowly, or just disappear in an instant?
- Something was happening tonight… the wind told her so, even if the moon did stunt her spirit for an instant.
Synonyms
short time, little while, bit, moment, minute, second, split second, trice, twinkling, twinkling of an eye, flash, no time, less than no time, no time at all
3informal Instant coffee.
〈非正式〉速溶咖啡
Example sentencesExamples
- Do you prefer fresh coffee to instant and do you purchase mineral water?
- Many sins are forgivable, but charging handsomely for coffee that comes directly from an outsized tin of own-label instant is not one of them.
- But anyone who has drunk freshly ground coffee and then reverted to instant will know what I'm talking about.

Origin

Late Middle English (in instant (sense 2 of the adjective, instant sense 3 of the adjective, instant sense 4 of the adjective)): via Old French from Latin instant- ‘being at hand’, from the verb instare, from in- ‘in, at’ + stare ‘to stand’.

词汇	instant
释义	Definition of instant in English: instant adjective ˈɪnst(ə)ntˈɪnstənt 1Happening or coming immediately. 立刻的，立即的 the offence justified instant dismissal 这次违规是立即免职的充分理由。 Example sentencesExamples What are they supposed to do - fester resentfully, or score a credit card and spend a month's salary on instant gratification? He demanded that million dollar severance payments be banned and that directors of large companies be made liable to instant dismissal. Right now, the object of the game is instant wealth. The home side took the lead but Carbury nearly had an instant response when an effort from Paul Masterson struck the post. The small earthenware exported to Malaysia three months ago was an instant hit there. Patients expect hospitals, like other businesses, to have instant access to data. The difference with OnePlan is that it gives borrowers instant access to this money via a mortgage chequebook. Shifting rubble too quickly can mean instant death for both Prakash Gore and the rescue team. If you go in expecting instant results, prepare to be disappointed. But intense pressure for instant e-business success has led many companies to open their doors before the paint's dry. Terry was so surprised at her instant reply, she quickly gave her a hug. But can these long-term goals overcome consumers' short attention spans and need for instant gratification? Even brands that have enjoyed decades of success and have instant recognition with consumers can lose some sparkle. If only some parts of your business need instant information, proceed accordingly. However, in some cases, instant dismissal may be justified if the conduct of the employee is serious and wilful. Not so with e-mail, which combines instant delivery with minimal effort. The proposed Employment Law Reform Bill will change the requirement for instant dismissal in the case of serious misconduct. There is now a need for instant hits that immediately grab the public attention - difficult when potential viewers have so many other options. A single telephone call there results in instant response. Erice gained instant popularity as a director of children; sweet and tender stories were expected of him. Synonyms immediate, instantaneous, on-the-spot, prompt, direct, swift, speedy, rapid, quick, expeditious, express, lightning, sudden, precipitate, abrupt informal snappy, p.d.q. (pretty damn quick) literary fleet, rathe rare alacritous 1.1 Prepared quickly and with little effort. 立刻成就的，一蹴而就的 we can't promise instant solutions 我们不能保证马上就能解决。 Example sentencesExamples Such instant solutions are neither necessary or desirable, said some traditional girlie publishers and printers. If his wife is pregnant, it's an instant solution to the problem; and the topic of constitutional reform can be put off for another few generations. So the Army is very seductive to them because it gives an instant solution to everything: Who am I? Barrichello explained there is no instant solution to the problem. The Minister warns the drought meeting will not provide instant solutions. They are mass-market plants for instant gardens, quickly transforming a space. Though the Internet and email may seem like an instant solution to many problems, people still run the technology. IN A world where practically everyone is in a hurry, there's a growing demand for instant solutions. There are no instant solutions to this and things can get out of hand. Importing more rice may be the instant solution, but increasing dependency on imported rice is not good. There is no reason to rush into anything just because it appears to provide humanity with instant solutions. No one is expecting instant solutions to problems that seem to be so deep-rooted as to be terminal. Like many from their ‘me’ generation, they want instant solutions to their problems. You get 12 recipes for the price of four plus an instant solution to what to do with leftovers. A beech hedge that keeps its russet-brown leaves right through winter is the perfect instant garden solution for a bare, brand new plot. It is clear there is no instant solution. Since it's so fun - and inexpensive too - why not surprise a friend or parent with an instant spring garden? If criminals were encouraged to conduct their own prosecutions, this would provide an instant solution to the problem of prison overcrowding. It's all about hard, elusive answers rather than easy, instant solutions. Of course, like other instant solutions to complex problems, it's not quite as simple as that, because the root is still there. 1.2 (of food) processed to allow very quick preparation. （食品）方便的；即食的，速食的；速溶的 instant coffee 速溶咖啡。 Example sentencesExamples Mark my wise words - start stocking up on yer instant food and tins! A heap of Scottish mince with instant pasta and cartoned passata can pass for lasagne. Now to move all the supplies - including blankets, instant food, water, canned food, milk, rice - to another train. Unless it's a new type of instant food product on an advert, obviously - that is a revolution too. Look at the stuff we ate then: Smash instant potato, Vesta curry and, an experimental addition to our school dinner menu, cheese meringue. Health Valley has a line of four fabulous instant hot cereal cups that have roughly half as much sugar as Quaker instant cereals. These markers indicate rices that are ideal for products such as canned soups or instant rice mixes. Called Lumberjack Pie, it consists of instant potato, Spam, baked beans and Cheddar cheese. Ruchi also has instant food mixes, spice powders and asafoetida under its belt, apart from a small presence in dates. The inflation rate edged up in December as a result of higher prices of key consumer products such as vegetable oil, soybean oil, and instant food. Pour 1 large box of instant chocolate pudding into a bowl along with 3 ½ cups milk. While instant food can never be as fresh or wholesome as how grandmother made it, it is a better option for hotel food, which is yet another reason for its growing popularity. Common high-glycemic foods include baked potatoes, boiled new potatoes, corn flakes, dates, and instant rice. Still, it focuses on cosmetics partially made by green tea, and instant foods made from green tea. Foods with high GI include white bread, potatoes, instant rice, and cornflakes. With their increasingly high consumption of snacks and instant foods, is there any hope? Just stir them in with a little of their oil, and you have instant pasta with wild mushrooms. No instant foods, no TV dinners, no cake mixes ever trespassed into my mother's kitchen. The team is urgently seeking storage space in the Tokyo Tower vicinity to keep bottled water, blankets, tents, canned and instant food and other supplies. Japanese instant snack noodles hope to dump their junk food status and soar to the higher gastronomical rank of space cuisine. Synonyms pre-prepared, ready prepared, ready mixed, pre-cooked, fast, easy/quick to prepare, easy/quick to make, microwaveable, convenience, TV 1.3 (of a person) becoming a specified thing immediately. （人）立刻（或突然）成为…的 become an instant millionaire 一夜之间成为百万富翁。 Example sentencesExamples He gets a wealthy financier to start a new company Digital Dreams and becomes an instant celebrity and millionaire. Called Winning Streak millionaire, it offers contestants a chance to become instant millionaires on television. That person will be afforded instant genius status. How everyday people became instant reporters with the help of cell phones and the Internet. I get annoyed by the people who become instant experts for a fortnight but couldn't tell you who won the French Open, played just the other week at Flushing Meadow. They went away for a quiet weekend and came home to find they were instant millionaires. We changed our money to Kip (we were instant millionaires), and the first thing I did with the money was pay for entering a washroom. That kind of effort made him an instant favorite among some of the team's veterans. There will be two free entry public competitions, one of which will turn one lucky patron into an instant millionaire. You will not become an overnight success, an instant millionaire or an Oscar winning actor. If someone could figure out a way to do this in the case of motor vehicles, he would be an instant millionaire. Not quite instant millionaire status, but what a return. There are still some countries in the world where you can become an instant millionaire. Sure, the lottery has produced winners, including a number of instant millionaires. Upon leaving public service, Holbrooke became an instant millionaire executive with Credit Suisse First Boston. Some Zambians and foreigners became instant millionaires driving posh cars like BMWs as a way to disguise proceeds of drug trafficking. Named the winner and an instant millionaire he wasted no time going down on bended knee to propose to his lady-love who accepted through tears of joy! A beachfront flea-market vendor here became an instant millionaire when he correctly matched six lotto numbers on Saturday. Palmer was in his prime in the days before golfers become instant millionaires the day they turned pro. Is there a downside to becoming an instant millionaire? 2dated Urgent; pressing. 紧急的，紧迫的，刻不容缓的 an instant desire to blame others when things go wrong 出错时责备他人的急切愿望。 Example sentencesExamples To most petrolheads the combined letters ‘XKR’ demands instant desire and respect, even if the person has never driven one. Here's what has changed: the presentation and the instant need to know. Synonyms current, present, existing, existent, actual, extant 3dated postpositive (in business letters) of the current month. 〈旧〉（商业信函用语）本月的 your letter of the 6th instant 您本月6日的来函。 Example sentencesExamples I have duly received your letter of the 8th instant, on the subject of the stone in your possession, supposed meteoric. 4archaic Of the present moment. 〈古〉此刻的，现时的 Example sentencesExamples In the instant case, the direction given by the judge has not been shown to be inappropriate in the circumstances. In the instant case, the direct given by the judge has not been shown to be inappropriate in the circumstances. noun ˈɪnst(ə)ntˈɪnstənt 1A precise moment of time. 准确时刻 come here this instant! 立刻过来！ at that instant the sun came out 太阳在那一时刻探出了头。 Example sentencesExamples There is not enough bran in this book, not enough of the tangible grit of reality, happening at a specific instant in a precise place. Love, pain, longing and devotion are written across her face in a flash, sometimes in the same instant. In the same instant of realization, the water disappeared, replaced by a carpet of soft green moss. Muses of the moment, they have always known that the instant of illumination is that point of equilibrium between being and becoming. Our eyes met and there was a moment of perfect understanding, an instant of flawless empathy between two Beatle fans. A vernal equinox represents the instant at which the sun lies exactly between the north and south celestial poles. At the precise instant that both boys entered the astounding world of 3 - D, they emitted low moans of amazement. Both had answered at the same instant - doubtless a moment of revelation for Sara McArdle. There is usually only a very light pressure to overcome, and the precise target shooter wants the exact instant of the shot to come by surprise. Only rarely can poetry aid us in communing with others; that is a beautiful idealism, except at certain strange moments, like the instant of falling in love. Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim. The paralysis that had gripped him from the first instant of the flash slowly ebbed, and he crawled out from under the truck. Jessica thought she heard him cry out in agony and she reached out to try to pull him free, but in the next instant, Matthew Jones disappeared from sight. It is a sign that uses an abbreviated code for a specific instant of duration or registration of a sociological temporal moment. The day has to be right for this, and the evening perfectly balanced, but it's worth waiting for the precise instant of stillness before the stars come out and the pond is just a pond once more. Twice she saw the ‘green flash’, a brilliant flash of emerald green light on the horizon at the instant of the sun's setting. It was as though a dam had been filled to the point of breaking, and this moment was the instant of peace before the dam burst and sent forth the great flood. However, the fact remains your two groups activated the claw sensors at precisely the same instant. The equinoxes are the instants at which the Sun appears to cross the equator, on about March 20 and September 22 (the dates vary slightly with the leap-year cycle). I'm not sure which memory is scariest, the first flash of realisation, or the instant of thrill. Synonyms moment, time, point in time, moment in time, minute, second, hour stage, phase, juncture, point 2A very short time; a moment. 瞬息，霎时；瞬间，片刻 for an instant the moon disappeared 有一刹那月亮消失了。 Example sentencesExamples Would she fade away slowly, or just disappear in an instant? The scene flashes through his memory in an instant. But when the children began to read the names, two years disappeared in an instant. Several bright comets streaked across the sky and then disappeared in an instant. The grey cat is startled as Firemane flashes by, but only for an instant. Ninety years ago, there were no television pictures, radio broadcasts or Internet bulletins to flash the news around the globe in an instant. But take to the practice field of the Calgary Rockies women's contact football team and thoughts of genteel femininity disappear in an instant. It proposes that you can make up your mind about something, and be invariably correct, in an instant; that snap judgment is often a more effective tool than detailed analysis. Something was happening tonight… the wind told her so, even if the moon did stunt her spirit for an instant. His life is like a cloud, it could disappear in an instant. The cheerful ring in his voice disappeared in an instant. Would you snap it up and upload to your site in an instant? Then all of sudden, Mitch's face burst like a fire into her mind, and she felt all her stupid feelings disappear in an instant. ‘I would like to think they would not make that mistake,’ he warned, the friendly smile disappearing for an instant. All of this, ever just below the surface of my thought, flashed across my mind in the instant between my question and his answer. He waved his hand, turned on his heel, and disappeared in an instant among the crowd. She had been so close to Toni - but their friendship had disappeared in an instant. The day flashed by in an instant for him; time seemed to only slow when he was occupied with something. It seemed to go faster suddenly and when the moon was completely covered a large, mansion like figure flashed in the sky but it was gone in an instant. But suddenly, the light flickered and flashed out in an instant. Synonyms short time, little while, bit, moment, minute, second, split second, trice, twinkling, twinkling of an eye, flash, (less than) no time, no time at all informal sec, nanosecond, jiffy, jiff, two shakes of a lamb's tail, the blink of an eye British informal mo, two ticks North American informal snap 3informal mass noun Instant coffee. 〈非正式〉速溶咖啡 Example sentencesExamples Many sins are forgivable, but charging handsomely for coffee that comes directly from an outsized tin of own-label instant is not one of them. Do you prefer fresh coffee to instant and do you purchase mineral water? But anyone who has drunk freshly ground coffee and then reverted to instant will know what I'm talking about. Phrases on the instant archaic Instantly; immediately. he was thrown into the water, and on the instant the sea grew calm Example sentencesExamples She handed it to him on the instant and he drank without halt while the bowl seemed to keep itself replenished. The laughter ceased on the instant, and fury took its place. But, on the instant, came the sweep and flash of Jonathan's great knife. He was thrown into the water, and on the instant the sea grew calm. I'm careful about how I report things on the instant. Synonyms immediately, instantly, at once, straight away, right away, instantaneously, suddenly, abruptly, all of a sudden, at a stroke, forthwith, then and there, there and then, here and now, that minute, this minute, that very minute, this very minute, that instant, this instant Origin Late Middle English (in sense 2 of the adjective, sense 3 of the adjective, sense 4 of the adjective): via Old French from Latin instant- 'being at hand', from the verb instare, from in- 'in, at' + stare 'to stand'. adj.1 phr. Definition of instant in US English: instant adjectiveˈɪnstəntˈinstənt 1Happening or coming immediately. 立刻的，立即的 the offense justified instant dismissal 这次违规是立即免职的充分理由。 Example sentencesExamples What are they supposed to do - fester resentfully, or score a credit card and spend a month's salary on instant gratification? Even brands that have enjoyed decades of success and have instant recognition with consumers can lose some sparkle. The difference with OnePlan is that it gives borrowers instant access to this money via a mortgage chequebook. If you go in expecting instant results, prepare to be disappointed. But intense pressure for instant e-business success has led many companies to open their doors before the paint's dry. He demanded that million dollar severance payments be banned and that directors of large companies be made liable to instant dismissal. Shifting rubble too quickly can mean instant death for both Prakash Gore and the rescue team. Patients expect hospitals, like other businesses, to have instant access to data. The proposed Employment Law Reform Bill will change the requirement for instant dismissal in the case of serious misconduct. If only some parts of your business need instant information, proceed accordingly. A single telephone call there results in instant response. The small earthenware exported to Malaysia three months ago was an instant hit there. The home side took the lead but Carbury nearly had an instant response when an effort from Paul Masterson struck the post. However, in some cases, instant dismissal may be justified if the conduct of the employee is serious and wilful. There is now a need for instant hits that immediately grab the public attention - difficult when potential viewers have so many other options. Erice gained instant popularity as a director of children; sweet and tender stories were expected of him. But can these long-term goals overcome consumers' short attention spans and need for instant gratification? Terry was so surprised at her instant reply, she quickly gave her a hug. Not so with e-mail, which combines instant delivery with minimal effort. Right now, the object of the game is instant wealth. Synonyms immediate, instantaneous, on-the-spot, prompt, direct, swift, speedy, rapid, quick, expeditious, express, lightning, sudden, precipitate, abrupt 1.1 Prepared quickly and with little effort. 立刻成就的，一蹴而就的 we can't promise instant solutions 我们不能保证马上就能解决。 Example sentencesExamples No one is expecting instant solutions to problems that seem to be so deep-rooted as to be terminal. If criminals were encouraged to conduct their own prosecutions, this would provide an instant solution to the problem of prison overcrowding. Such instant solutions are neither necessary or desirable, said some traditional girlie publishers and printers. A beech hedge that keeps its russet-brown leaves right through winter is the perfect instant garden solution for a bare, brand new plot. They are mass-market plants for instant gardens, quickly transforming a space. There are no instant solutions to this and things can get out of hand. It's all about hard, elusive answers rather than easy, instant solutions. There is no reason to rush into anything just because it appears to provide humanity with instant solutions. Of course, like other instant solutions to complex problems, it's not quite as simple as that, because the root is still there. Like many from their ‘me’ generation, they want instant solutions to their problems. If his wife is pregnant, it's an instant solution to the problem; and the topic of constitutional reform can be put off for another few generations. Importing more rice may be the instant solution, but increasing dependency on imported rice is not good. So the Army is very seductive to them because it gives an instant solution to everything: Who am I? The Minister warns the drought meeting will not provide instant solutions. It is clear there is no instant solution. Barrichello explained there is no instant solution to the problem. You get 12 recipes for the price of four plus an instant solution to what to do with leftovers. IN A world where practically everyone is in a hurry, there's a growing demand for instant solutions. Though the Internet and email may seem like an instant solution to many problems, people still run the technology. Since it's so fun - and inexpensive too - why not surprise a friend or parent with an instant spring garden? 1.2 (of food) processed to allow quick preparation. （食品）方便的；即食的，速食的；速溶的 instant coffee 速溶咖啡。 Example sentencesExamples No instant foods, no TV dinners, no cake mixes ever trespassed into my mother's kitchen. Common high-glycemic foods include baked potatoes, boiled new potatoes, corn flakes, dates, and instant rice. Foods with high GI include white bread, potatoes, instant rice, and cornflakes. Called Lumberjack Pie, it consists of instant potato, Spam, baked beans and Cheddar cheese. The team is urgently seeking storage space in the Tokyo Tower vicinity to keep bottled water, blankets, tents, canned and instant food and other supplies. Now to move all the supplies - including blankets, instant food, water, canned food, milk, rice - to another train. Pour 1 large box of instant chocolate pudding into a bowl along with 3 ½ cups milk. With their increasingly high consumption of snacks and instant foods, is there any hope? Unless it's a new type of instant food product on an advert, obviously - that is a revolution too. Just stir them in with a little of their oil, and you have instant pasta with wild mushrooms. Ruchi also has instant food mixes, spice powders and asafoetida under its belt, apart from a small presence in dates. Look at the stuff we ate then: Smash instant potato, Vesta curry and, an experimental addition to our school dinner menu, cheese meringue. Mark my wise words - start stocking up on yer instant food and tins! The inflation rate edged up in December as a result of higher prices of key consumer products such as vegetable oil, soybean oil, and instant food. While instant food can never be as fresh or wholesome as how grandmother made it, it is a better option for hotel food, which is yet another reason for its growing popularity. Still, it focuses on cosmetics partially made by green tea, and instant foods made from green tea. Health Valley has a line of four fabulous instant hot cereal cups that have roughly half as much sugar as Quaker instant cereals. These markers indicate rices that are ideal for products such as canned soups or instant rice mixes. Japanese instant snack noodles hope to dump their junk food status and soar to the higher gastronomical rank of space cuisine. A heap of Scottish mince with instant pasta and cartoned passata can pass for lasagne. Synonyms pre-prepared, ready prepared, ready mixed, pre-cooked, fast, easy to prepare, quick to prepare, easy to make, quick to make, microwaveable, convenience, tv 1.3 (of a person) becoming a specified thing immediately or very suddenly. （人）立刻（或突然）成为…的 become an instant millionaire 一夜之间成为百万富翁。 Example sentencesExamples There will be two free entry public competitions, one of which will turn one lucky patron into an instant millionaire. We changed our money to Kip (we were instant millionaires), and the first thing I did with the money was pay for entering a washroom. I get annoyed by the people who become instant experts for a fortnight but couldn't tell you who won the French Open, played just the other week at Flushing Meadow. A beachfront flea-market vendor here became an instant millionaire when he correctly matched six lotto numbers on Saturday. Sure, the lottery has produced winners, including a number of instant millionaires. Some Zambians and foreigners became instant millionaires driving posh cars like BMWs as a way to disguise proceeds of drug trafficking. You will not become an overnight success, an instant millionaire or an Oscar winning actor. If someone could figure out a way to do this in the case of motor vehicles, he would be an instant millionaire. They went away for a quiet weekend and came home to find they were instant millionaires. Palmer was in his prime in the days before golfers become instant millionaires the day they turned pro. Named the winner and an instant millionaire he wasted no time going down on bended knee to propose to his lady-love who accepted through tears of joy! How everyday people became instant reporters with the help of cell phones and the Internet. That kind of effort made him an instant favorite among some of the team's veterans. Is there a downside to becoming an instant millionaire? He gets a wealthy financier to start a new company Digital Dreams and becomes an instant celebrity and millionaire. Not quite instant millionaire status, but what a return. Upon leaving public service, Holbrooke became an instant millionaire executive with Credit Suisse First Boston. There are still some countries in the world where you can become an instant millionaire. Called Winning Streak millionaire, it offers contestants a chance to become instant millionaires on television. That person will be afforded instant genius status. 2dated Urgent; pressing. 紧急的，紧迫的，刻不容缓的 an instant desire to blame others when things go wrong 出错时责备他人的急切愿望。 Example sentencesExamples To most petrolheads the combined letters ‘XKR’ demands instant desire and respect, even if the person has never driven one. Here's what has changed: the presentation and the instant need to know. Synonyms current, present, existing, existent, actual, extant 3dated postpositive (in business letters) of the current month. 〈旧〉（商业信函用语）本月的 your letter of the 6th instant 您本月6日的来函。 Compare with proximo, ultimo Example sentencesExamples I have duly received your letter of the 8th instant, on the subject of the stone in your possession, supposed meteoric. 4archaic Of the present moment. 〈古〉此刻的，现时的 Example sentencesExamples In the instant case, the direct given by the judge has not been shown to be inappropriate in the circumstances. In the instant case, the direction given by the judge has not been shown to be inappropriate in the circumstances. nounˈɪnstəntˈinstənt 1A precise moment of time. 准确时刻 come here this instant! 立刻过来！ at that instant the sun came out 太阳在那一时刻探出了头。 Example sentencesExamples The equinoxes are the instants at which the Sun appears to cross the equator, on about March 20 and September 22 (the dates vary slightly with the leap-year cycle). In the same instant of realization, the water disappeared, replaced by a carpet of soft green moss. A vernal equinox represents the instant at which the sun lies exactly between the north and south celestial poles. Only rarely can poetry aid us in communing with others; that is a beautiful idealism, except at certain strange moments, like the instant of falling in love. Both had answered at the same instant - doubtless a moment of revelation for Sara McArdle. Muses of the moment, they have always known that the instant of illumination is that point of equilibrium between being and becoming. Love, pain, longing and devotion are written across her face in a flash, sometimes in the same instant. I'm not sure which memory is scariest, the first flash of realisation, or the instant of thrill. The paralysis that had gripped him from the first instant of the flash slowly ebbed, and he crawled out from under the truck. Twice she saw the ‘green flash’, a brilliant flash of emerald green light on the horizon at the instant of the sun's setting. However, the fact remains your two groups activated the claw sensors at precisely the same instant. Our eyes met and there was a moment of perfect understanding, an instant of flawless empathy between two Beatle fans. Jessica thought she heard him cry out in agony and she reached out to try to pull him free, but in the next instant, Matthew Jones disappeared from sight. It was as though a dam had been filled to the point of breaking, and this moment was the instant of peace before the dam burst and sent forth the great flood. Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim. There is not enough bran in this book, not enough of the tangible grit of reality, happening at a specific instant in a precise place. At the precise instant that both boys entered the astounding world of 3 - D, they emitted low moans of amazement. There is usually only a very light pressure to overcome, and the precise target shooter wants the exact instant of the shot to come by surprise. The day has to be right for this, and the evening perfectly balanced, but it's worth waiting for the precise instant of stillness before the stars come out and the pond is just a pond once more. It is a sign that uses an abbreviated code for a specific instant of duration or registration of a sociological temporal moment. Synonyms moment, time, point in time, moment in time, minute, second, hour 2A very short space of time; a moment. 瞬息，霎时；瞬间，片刻 for an instant the moon disappeared 有一刹那月亮消失了。 Example sentencesExamples ‘I would like to think they would not make that mistake,’ he warned, the friendly smile disappearing for an instant. The scene flashes through his memory in an instant. Then all of sudden, Mitch's face burst like a fire into her mind, and she felt all her stupid feelings disappear in an instant. It proposes that you can make up your mind about something, and be invariably correct, in an instant; that snap judgment is often a more effective tool than detailed analysis. His life is like a cloud, it could disappear in an instant. Ninety years ago, there were no television pictures, radio broadcasts or Internet bulletins to flash the news around the globe in an instant. But when the children began to read the names, two years disappeared in an instant. The day flashed by in an instant for him; time seemed to only slow when he was occupied with something. All of this, ever just below the surface of my thought, flashed across my mind in the instant between my question and his answer. Several bright comets streaked across the sky and then disappeared in an instant. Would you snap it up and upload to your site in an instant? The cheerful ring in his voice disappeared in an instant. But suddenly, the light flickered and flashed out in an instant. It seemed to go faster suddenly and when the moon was completely covered a large, mansion like figure flashed in the sky but it was gone in an instant. She had been so close to Toni - but their friendship had disappeared in an instant. But take to the practice field of the Calgary Rockies women's contact football team and thoughts of genteel femininity disappear in an instant. The grey cat is startled as Firemane flashes by, but only for an instant. He waved his hand, turned on his heel, and disappeared in an instant among the crowd. Would she fade away slowly, or just disappear in an instant? Something was happening tonight… the wind told her so, even if the moon did stunt her spirit for an instant. Synonyms short time, little while, bit, moment, minute, second, split second, trice, twinkling, twinkling of an eye, flash, no time, less than no time, no time at all 3informal Instant coffee. 〈非正式〉速溶咖啡 Example sentencesExamples Do you prefer fresh coffee to instant and do you purchase mineral water? Many sins are forgivable, but charging handsomely for coffee that comes directly from an outsized tin of own-label instant is not one of them. But anyone who has drunk freshly ground coffee and then reverted to instant will know what I'm talking about. Origin Late Middle English (in instant (sense 2 of the adjective, instant sense 3 of the adjective, instant sense 4 of the adjective)): via Old French from Latin instant- ‘being at hand’, from the verb instare, from in- ‘in, at’ + stare ‘to stand’.
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