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instant 用英语:

1. happening immediately



2. immediately


I'll return immediately.
Police immediately sealed off the streets around the hotel as they searched for the bomb.
Immediately after the bell rang the teacher came into the classroom.
They used math to calculate the shape of the universe immediately before and after the Big Bang.
If you notice a thief in our shop, please inform your supervisor immediately.
Go straight, then take the second street to the left and turn immediately again to the right. That will be Karlova Street and then you should keep going straight across Charles Bridge to Mostecka Street and on to Malostranské Square.
If an oversight is the reason why you have not paid, please send us the amount due, and let us solve the problem immediately.
When we stepped off the bus we were immediately surrounded by a throng of children from the village.
To avoid spoiling, fish caught far out at sea are immediately cooled or even frozen.
I go into the store, and who do I see? An American friend, who immediately begins to tell me what has been going on with him since we last met.
The fork made its way to Western tables several hundred years later, but it was not immediately accepted.
3. If you do phone then hang up immediately, without following any instructions given.
Yesterday, I found a tiny piece of land for sale in a quiet residential area and I immediately decided to buy it.
OK, but if we stopped putting gases into the air now, global warming would stop immediately, right?
Your work has been causing a lot of complaints from customers; I'm ordering you to leave immediately. "Oh, up yours! I didn't want to work here in the first place."

3. immediate


There are no food stores in the immediate area.
You must not think about your immediate profit only.
Hull was given immediate orders to invade Canada.
The company's immediate priority is to expand the market share.
She came immediately.
an immediate solution to the problem
Act now! he said, and in addition to his obvious meaning, he hinted that there were number of other important reasons why immediate action was needed.
I was surprised at her immediate recognition of me.
Distant water won't quench your immediate thirst.
The project is well-planned and interesting, but its immediate impact on the bottom line is not considered substantial.
And it is only a very short step from there, to perception which occurs in the absence of all immediate signals and has to be labeled extrasensory.
They only attended when someone in their immediate family was involved.
We must make an immediate response. Dioxin is a poison that takes immediate effect.
And there are several other appointments that require our immediate attention.
The immediate cause of his failure was lack of study.

4. instances


However, there are instances in history where entire peoples were successfully exterminated.
And soon after I procured Xenophon's Memorable Things of Socrates, in which there are many instances of the same method.
Instead use words like "some", "many", "often", and begin statements with openers like, "In my experience, ...", "Excuse me if I'm wrong, but...", "In many instances, ...."
I can give you several instances.