for an instant

基本解釋

The old man's eyelids, pale and thin like rice paper, flickered. For an instant, his pupils seemed to center on the young man's face, then drifted away.
老人蒼白消瘦得如同米紙一般的眼瞼微動了一下，他的瞳孔似乎在一瞬間集中到這位年輕男子的面孔上，然后慢慢黯淡了下去。
We know they're big. But let's get technical: If we could freeze frame a hurricane in the sky just for an instant, how many pounds of water is it carrying up there?
我們知道風(fēng)很大，我們從技術(shù)上分析一下：如果我們能把風(fēng)在空中定格片刻，會有多少水隨風(fēng)一起被帶向天空？
Further, each new process -- let's call it the "child" process -- is a clone of its "parent" process, at least for an instant, until the child continues execution independently.
另外，每個新進(jìn)程（不妨將其稱為“子”進(jìn)程）是對“父”進(jìn)程的克隆體（至少有一瞬間是如此），直到“子”進(jìn)程繼續(xù)獨(dú)立執(zhí)行為止。

His marriage to actress Julia Roberts made him an instant celebrity for reasons completely unrelated to music.
And I'm very interested in what happened in the French suburbs two years ago; in fact, I wrote an instant article on it for an encyclopedia because some of the work I'd earlier done was about why French suburbs and European suburbs are different than American suburbs.
我對兩年前,在法國郊區(qū)的事很感興趣,其實(shí)我當(dāng)時就給一個百科全書,寫了一篇文章,因?yàn)槲乙郧把芯窟^,為什么法國和歐洲的郊區(qū),與美國郊區(qū)有這么大的差別
耶魯公開課 - 1871年后的法國課程節(jié)選
If you're looking for a piece of software Baidu Hai -it's an instant messenger software we delivered-- we will show that to you.
如果你要找百度Hi這個軟件,這是一種,即時通訊軟件，搜索頁面會顯示出來。
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For an instant I wanted to go to the library and dig for an obituary.
NEWYORKER: Lucky Alan