for an instant

常见例句

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.
老人苍白消瘦得如同米纸一般的眼睑微动了一下，他的瞳孔似乎在一瞬间集中到这位年轻男子的面孔上，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?
我们知道风很大，我们从技术上分析一下：如果我们能把风在空中定格片刻，会有多少水随风一起被带向天空？
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，每个新进程（不妨将其称为“子”进程）是对“父”进程的克隆体（至少有一瞬间是如此），直到“子”进程继续独立执行为止。

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.
我对两年前,在法国郊区的事很感兴趣,其实我当时就给一个百科全书,写了一篇文章,因为我以前研究过,为什么法国和欧洲的郊区,与美国郊区有这么大的差别
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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这个软件,这是一种,即时通讯软件，搜索页面会显示出来。
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For an instant I wanted to go to the library and dig for an obituary.
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Paul Butler, for an instant, became the most famous school board member in America.
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For an instant, I thought about what would happen if one of the Pirelli tires blew.
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