spur of the moment
突发事件,临时起意,突发奇想,临时起意的
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- : occurring or done without advance preparation or deliberation; extemporaneous; unplanned: a spur-of-the-moment decision.
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Examples
In that country at that moment, the Catholics have practically disappeared.
France 24 is providing live, round-the-clock coverage of both scenes as they progress.
Sands was involved in a scandalous-for-the-time romance with the carpenter and there were rumors she was pregnant with his child.
But Krauss said that from the moment he and the other scientists arrived on the island, they never saw anything untoward.
The massacre of cartoonists at the French magazine Charlie Hebdo is a crystallizing moment.
He was too drowsy to hold the thought more than a moment in his mind, much less to reflect upon it.
They are very urgent questions; our sons and daughters will have to begin to deal with them from the moment they leave college.
Her eyes, for a moment, fixed themselves with a horrid conviction of a wide and nameless treachery.
Sleek finds it far harder work than fortune-making; but he pursues his Will-o'-the-Wisp with untiring energy.
The thought seemed to produce the dreaded object, for next moment a large hummock appeared right ahead.