instants

英 [ˈɪnstənts]

美 [ˈɪnstənts]

n.  瞬间; 片刻; 某一时刻
instant的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 瞬息;顷刻;刹那
  Aninstantis an extremely short period of time.
  1. For an instant, Catherine was tempted to flee...
     有那么一会儿,凯瑟琳很想逃跑。
  2. The pain disappeared in an instant.
     疼痛立刻就消失了。
• N-SING (某一)时刻
  If you say that something happensata particularinstant, 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.
  1. At that instant the museum was plunged into total darkness...
     就在那时,博物馆陷入了一片漆黑。
  2. In the same instant he flung open the car door.
     与此同时,他猛地推开了车门。
• PHR-CONJ-SUBORD 一…(就)
  To do somethingthe instantsomething else happens means to do it immediately.
  1. I had bolted the door the instant I had seen the bat.
     我一看到蝙蝠就把门闩上了。
• ADJ 立即的;即刻的
  You useinstantto describe something that happens immediately.
  1. Mr Porter's book was an instant hit...
     波特先生的书一经推出便大受欢迎。
  2. He had taken an instant dislike to Mortlake.
     他一到莫特莱克就觉得不喜欢这个地方。
• ADJ (食品)已配制好的，调制快速方便的，速溶的
  Instantfood is food that you can prepare very quickly, for example by just adding water.
  1. ...instant coffee.
     速溶咖啡

双语例句

• Presented in this paper is a new maximum likelihood method for estimating the mean values, the covariance matrix and the real values at all observation instants of stochastic parameters with normal distribution in general nonlinear models.
  本文提出了一种最大似然估计方法，可对一般非线性模型中服从正态分布的随机参数的均值、协方差矩阵及其在各观测时刻的取值进行合理的估计。
• A few instants passed, and he found that Tess was gone.
  过了一会儿，他发现苔丝已经走了。
• Stephen: It's possible to represent a range between any two Instants using a Duration.
  Stephen：可以使用Duration界定任意两个Instant之间的范围。
• Whereas an instant specifies an exact moment in time relative to the epoch, a partial time snippet refers to a moment in time that could "slide" around such that it could apply to multiple instants.
  瞬间性指定了与epoch相对的时间上的一个精确时刻，与此相反，局部时间片段指的是在时间上可以来回“移动”的一个时刻，这样它便可以应用于多个实例。
• A virtual stochastic process is constructed so that the basic random variable becomes the value of the stochastic process at certain instants of time.
  在此方法中，构造一个与基本随机变量相关的虚拟随机过程，使得基本随机变量成为该随机过程的截口随机变量。
• Joda classes that represent immutable instants in time are subclasses of this one.
  表示时间上的不可变瞬间的Joda类都属于这个类的子类。
• The constraints may include the maximum switching times. The best operation modes and their corresponding switching instants can be determined by the proposed algorithm simultaneously.
  可以同时确定最佳运行方式、切换时刻和切换次数。
• Optimal Instants of Different Capital Account Liberalization from the Perspective of Financial Stability
  不同类型资本账户开放的最优时点选择&基于金融稳定的视角
• I knew that this was the matching of heart with some instants, and we regarded it as thought, yet differed with reminiscences.
  我知道，这是心灵与某些瞬间的契合，我们称之为思想，但不同于怀念。
• The author sets forth the basic principle and general steps about checking device air tightness of chemistry experiment, and combines instants introducing usual inspecting methods, calefaction, water injection, air blowing; air exhausting and subsection etc.
  阐述了检查化学实验装置气密性的基本原理和一般步骤，并结合实例介绍了检查装置气密性常用的加热法、注水法、鼓气法、抽气法和分段法等。