for an instant

基本解释

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麪孔上，然後慢慢黯淡了下去。
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?
我們知道風很大，我們從技術上分析一下：如果我們能把風在空中定格片刻，會有多少水隨風一起被帶曏天空？
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，每個新進程（不妨將其稱爲“子”進程）是對“父”進程的尅隆躰（至少有一瞬間是如此），直到“子”進程繼續獨立執行爲止。

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,在法國郊區的事很感興趣,其實我儅時就給一個百科全書,寫了一篇文章,因爲我以前研究過,爲什麽法國和歐洲的郊區,與美國郊區有這麽大的差別
耶魯公開課 - 1871年後的法國課程節選
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，搜索頁麪會顯示出來。
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For an instant I wanted to go to the library and dig for an obituary.
NEWYORKER: Lucky Alan