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momentarily

/moh-muhn-tair-uh-lee, moh-muhn-ter-/US // ˌmoʊ mənˈtɛər ə li, ˈmoʊ mənˌtɛr- //UK // (ˈməʊməntərəlɪ, -trɪlɪ) //

一时间,一时之间,一时半会

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Definitions

adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1
    • : for a moment; briefly: to pause momentarily.
    • : at any moment; imminently: expected to occur momentarily.
    • : Now Rare. instantly.

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Examples

  • Farmers, seed manufacturers, real estate developers and a few homeowners benefit, at least momentarily, but the gap between what the climate can destroy and what money can replace is growing.

  • Besides our vigilance about masking, it was a momentarily magical return to the before times.

  • The exchanged gluon might momentarily split into a “virtual” quark pair, for instance, before reconstituting itself in a flash.

  • Magnetic resonance imaging uses a powerful magnetic field to align protons in a patient’s body in a certain direction and then uses radio waves to momentarily knock these protons out of alignment.

  • During rapid eye movements, the brain momentarily blinds us so that we don’t see our surroundings jump.

  • Somebody yanks Chan and elbows him and he is momentarily distracted trying to apprehend his assailant.

  • When asked about how his announcement from last November was affecting the race, Michaud seemed momentarily at a loss.

  • While attempting to pull a bin of canned food toward him, Bob is momentarily pulled underwater by a walker sneak-attack.

  • They are told that this event is important, and they may, momentarily, set aside their skepticism.

  • Scourges, he says, “are killers who act, momentarily, as agents freed from sacred order and its commanding truths.”

  • He had been momentarily forgetting care; was speaking gaily to his wife as they entered.

  • A frown momentarily darkened the cloudless brow of Aristide Pujol.

  • The eye of Sin Sin Wa turned momentarily in her direction, but otherwise he did not stir a muscle.

  • The observation passed momentarily unnoticed, for Maude, whom Lady Hartledon had been obliged to release, would not be pacified.

  • Wilder was so touched by this burst of confidence that he momentarily forgot his happy thought.