instant

1. N-COUNT An instant is an extremely short period of time. 瞬間; 剎那

For an instant, Barney was tempted to flee. 那一瞬間，巴尼很想逃走。

2. N-SING If you say that something happens at a particular instant, you mean that it happens at exactly the time you have been referring to, and you are usually suggesting that it happens quickly or immediately. 時(shí)刻

At that instant the museum was plunged into total darkness. 在那一刻，博物館陷入一片黑暗。

3. PHRASE To do something the instant something else happens means to do it immediately. 一…就…[強(qiáng)調(diào)]

I bolted the door the instant I saw the bat. 我一看到那衹蝙蝠就把門閂上了。

4. ADJ You use instant to describe something that happens immediately. 立即的

Mr. Porter's book was an instant hit. 波特先生的書立刻引起了轟動(dòng)。

5. instantlyADV 立即地

The man was killed instantly. 那人立即被殺死了。

6. ADJ Instant food is food that you can prepare very quickly, for example, by just adding water. 調(diào)制快速方便的 (食品)[ADJ n]

He stirred instant coffee into a mug of hot water. 他將速溶咖啡攪入一大盃熱水中。