Immediate
[ɪ'miːdɪət] or [ɪ'midɪət]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) having no intervening medium; 'an immediate influence' .
(adj.) performed with little or no delay; 'an immediate reply to my letter'; 'a prompt reply'; 'was quick to respond'; 'a straightaway denial' .
(adj.) immediately before or after as in a chain of cause and effect; 'the immediate result'; 'the immediate cause of the trouble' .
(adj.) of the present time and place; 'the immediate revisions' .
編輯:奥尔加--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Not separated in respect to place by anything intervening; proximate; close; as, immediate contact.
(a.) Not deferred by an interval of time; present; instant.
(a.) Acting with nothing interposed or between, or without the intervention of another object as a cause, means, or agency; acting, perceived, or produced, directly; as, an immediate cause.
艾达整理
同義詞及近義詞：
a. [1]. Proximate, close.[2]. Direct, without other agency.[3]. Instantaneous, instant, present.
安托万整理
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Proximate, contiguous, present, direct, instant, next
ANT:Distant, remote, future, mediate
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解釋/意思:
adj. with nothing between two objects: not acting by second causes: direct: present: without delay.—n. Immē′diacy (Shak.) immediate or independent power.—adv. Immē′diātely.—ns. Immē′diāteness; Immē′diatism.
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例句/造句/用法:
- In some sense, men had always used an inductive method in dealing with their immediate practical concerns. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- In the long run, the workman may be as necessary to his master as his master is to him; but the necessity is not so immediate. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- This change took from us the fear of an immediate catastrophe, although we were still anxious as to the final result. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- It was of less immediate practical importance that it frequently defined them wrongly. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- And so arrange them as to have them always in order for immediate reference, with a note of the contents of each outside it. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- In America the effects were immediate. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- If I inflicted this shock upon him to-morrow morning, how could the immediate change in him be accounted for? 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- To believe is in this case to feel an immediate impression of the senses, or a repetition of that impression in the memory. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- The Commission does not say, and I for one, ascribe the silence to the American preoccupation with immediate, definite, tangible interests. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- It must always, in the long-run, be advanced to him by his immediate employer, in the advanced state of wages. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Of his immediate surroundings, his telescope is most intimately his environment. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Come, come; this is all an effusion of immediate want of spirits, Edward. 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- For reasons worth analyzing later, these representative American citizens desired both the immediate taboo and an ultimate annihilation of vice. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Is it the immediate object of this confidence, that you may at once ascertain that, with my knowledge? 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- His anger had not abated; it was rather rising the more as his sense of immediate danger was passing away. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- If it is employed in procuring present enjoyment, it is a stock reserved for immediate consumption. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Mrs. Dorset, examining her between lowered lids, met this with the immediate query: Who told you that? 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- Or, in less extreme cases, there is recourse to idle amusement; to anything which passes time with immediate agreeableness. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Louis Moore's doubts respecting the immediate evacuation of Fieldhead by Mr. Sympson turned out to be perfectly well founded. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Ordered to immediate action by the master's tone and look, the old man took up his hat from the little counter where it lay. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- She made no immediate motion to do so, however, but dropping into a chair looked wearily about her. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- The one immediate resource left to me appeared to be this. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- So they fell into the confusion of making immediate and detailed proposals that have nothing to do with the attainment of their ideal. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- From the moment that Tom saw him approaching, he felt an immediate and revolting horror at him, that increased as he came near. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- There was no immediate appearance. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- Their success was immediate, and from these displays has grown the successes of today in pyrotechnics. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- The crowd had gradually dispersed in their immediate vicinity, and they were nearly alone. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- The first is that portion which is reserved for immediate consumption, and of which the characteristic is, that it affords no revenue or profit. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- At first he thought very little about anything but immediate things. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- She knew Ursula as an immediate rival, and the knowledge strangely exhilarated her. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
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