| 单词 | immediate |
| 释义 | immediate (ɪmiːdiət ) 1. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun] B2 An immediate result, action, or reaction happens or is done without any delay. These tragic incidents have had an immediate effect. My immediate reaction was just disgust. 2. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun] B2 Immediate needs and concerns exist at the present time and must be dealt with quickly. Relief agencies say the immediate problem is not a lack of food, but transportation. Synonyms: current, present, pressing, existing 3. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun] B2 The immediate person or thing comes just before or just after another person or thing in a sequence. In the immediate aftermath of the riots, a mood of hope and reconciliation sprang up. His immediate superior, General Geichenko, had singled him out for special mention. 4. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun] You use immediate to describe an area or position that is next to or very near a particular place or person. Only a handful had returned to work in the immediate vicinity. I was seated at Sauter's immediate left. Synonyms: nearest, next, direct, close 5. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun] Your immediate family are the members of your family who are most closely related to you, for example your parents, children, brothers, and sisters. The presence of his immediate family is obviously having a calming effect on him. Synonyms: intimate, close Collocations: immediate ban The government ordered an immediate ban last night on the temporary release or transfer to an open jail of prisoners who had previously escaped. Times, Sunday Times An immediate ban must be imposed on them in a bid to protect our ash trees from this foreign invader. Times, Sunday Times Announcing an immediate ban, the committee said he had committed misconduct 'continuously and repeatedly'. The Sun If the new law was introduced immediately, the 1.1m drivers who have six points or more on their licences could face an immediate ban for just one more offence. Times, Sunday Times He won a high court ruling in 2015, though this was overturned after government lawyers warned that an immediate ban would cause discipline problems. Times, Sunday Times When they thought about the immediate gain, areas associated with emotion lit up. Times, Sunday Times Without it, people would insist on immediate gain, to their eventual cost. Times, Sunday Times While the banks, unfettered by meaningful financial regulation, were irresponsible in their lending practices, consumers were more than willing to abandon sound financial planning for immediate gain. Times, Sunday Times They now sell on a more reasonable 11 times earnings, though market jitters over the macroeconomic outlook could limit immediate gains. Times, Sunday Times Those multiples do not look especially cheap and further immediate gains may be limited. Times, Sunday Times It was an immediate hit with gamers, who suddenly found that it was not such a solitary hobby after all. Times, Sunday Times First, you take the immediate hit from the collapse in revenues, leading to losses and need for cash. Times,Sunday Times The novel, published in 1898, was an immediate hit, spawning bowdlerisations and unauthorised sequels within months. Times, Sunday Times The new website, by comparison, has been an immediate hit. Times, Sunday Times It was transmitted in 1966 and proved an immediate hit. Times, Sunday Times The most immediate impact will be in the region itself. Times, Sunday Times They are expected to have an immediate impact. Times, Sunday Times His work has the immediate impact of an advertising poster. Times, Sunday Times At the age of 19 he made an immediate impact on first-class cricket with three hundreds and an average above 60 in the 2001 season. Times, Sunday Times Better still, it shows the direct and immediate impact of smartphones on the lives of the students. Times, Sunday Times This and his immense experience were combined with a natural geniality: the essential simplicity of his character and his obvious sincerity made an immediate impression. Times, Sunday Times Despite a reputation for monetary orthodoxy, he has given an immediate impression of recognising the risks to the eurozone. Times, Sunday Times Yet having been recalled this season, the right back has made an immediate impression. Times, Sunday Times For various reasons, what most people think of as hard philosophy, to say nothing of theology, makes little immediate impression on the cultural consciousness. Christianity Today Some films leave an immediate impression, searing themselves into your consciousness with absolute clarity from the very first viewing. Times, Sunday Times Desperate times called for desperate measures, but the double substitution at half-time sparked an immediate improvement. Times, Sunday Times It offers down-to-earth tips for immediate improvement in worship services. Christianity Today For patients in the study who could already walk on their own using supports like walkers, after practicing with the harness their solo walking showed immediate improvement. Smithsonian Mag Their ranking was quite stable in the 2016-17 season, followed by a rapid decline and immediate improvement in 2017-18. Times, Sunday Times The next manager might not deliver immediate improvement, but it has reached the point where the status quo has begun to represent regression, not stability. Times, Sunday Times It might be okay for meeting a temporary, immediate need, but a sustained ministry takes more than that. Christianity Today With a $28 billion cash pile, it has no immediate need to raise capital. Times, Sunday Times The 30,000 food bank volunteers are not only meeting an immediate need; they are also keeping hope alive. Times, Sunday Times There was an immediate need to mobilise hundreds of thousands of volunteers. Times, Sunday Times This reduces the immediate need for a rights issue from longsuffering shareholders. Times, Sunday Times Their immediate neighbour had an intact door, but in the middle of it was a large footprint. Times, Sunday Times Apparently, a little more than 920 years ago the king had briefly asserted his power over this island and its immediate neighbour, and added it to his empire. Times,Sunday Times It's incredibly peaceful, with only wombats and wallabies as immediate neighbours. Times, Sunday Times A new resident on our street has antagonised his immediate neighbours by his extensive and long-lasting building works. Times, Sunday Times Aside from immediate neighbours, few people say they knew him. Times, Sunday Times Because it's not as if they stop at the boundary of my immediate neighbourhood. Times, Sunday Times The remainder come from schools beyond the immediate neighbourhood. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Statues, pictures and relics in the immediate neighbourhood are to be removed or covered. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The scenery of that fiction lies close around; the real events which suggested it took place in the immediate neighbourhood. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He enlarged his own congregation and established seven new ones in the immediate neighbourhood, several of them self-supporting. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This right ceases once he resigns as a director and so that needs to be your immediate objective. Times, Sunday Times Quantitative easing has the same immediate objective as interest-rates cuts - to revive lending and spending. Times, Sunday Times This allowed his platoon to advance to take their immediate objective and for the battalion to continue south. Times, Sunday Times It was successful in its immediate objective, destroying more than 40 per cent of the plant. Times, Sunday Times The immediate objective of the interviewing officer should be to establish a cooperative relationship. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Journalists thrive on speed - immediate payment for work received, no assignment taking too long. The Times Literary Supplement Once home, he found a condolence letter and another from a debt-recovery firm seeking immediate payment of his credit card balance. Times,Sunday Times I was living away from home but found numerous letters at my home address, the final one asking for immediate payment. Times, Sunday Times Many hospitals expect immediate payment and do not accept credit cards. ST The deal will involve an immediate payment of $40 million, with the balance payable in equal instalments over five years, provided he continues to abide by the terms of the agreement. Times, Sunday Times He promised unspecified tax reform to help families and businesses and called for an 'immediate plan of action' to promote growth. Times, Sunday Times It has no immediate plan to intervene directly but throws its full support behind the local police. Times,Sunday Times Whoever takes over will need an immediate plan of action. Times, Sunday Times His best move would be to abandon any immediate plan to retire and see how he feels after his summer break. The Sun But he took it for a more immediate plan? Times,Sunday Times New pastors are measured as accessible in comparison to their immediate predecessor. Christianity Today He was 77 when asked to follow in the footsteps of his immediate predecessor who had been so much larger than life. Times, Sunday Times In practice, like his immediate predecessor, he has pushed back deadlines instead of setting them in stone. Times, Sunday Times If you find this perplexing, then you need only keep a simple point in mind: this government (like its immediate predecessor) has two policies on oil prices. Times, Sunday Times Which word in this question contains the same number of letters as its immediate predecessor? Times, Sunday Times Vale said that its immediate priority was 'to protect the lives of employees and inhabitants'. Times, Sunday Times Another immediate priority will be introducing deep-seated labour reforms to improve competitiveness. Times, Sunday Times This debate comes at a time of uncertainty and anxiety, and tackling the global economic crisis must be the government's immediate priority. Times, Sunday Times He said that the reform of law enforcement would be his immediate priority. Times, Sunday Times His aides later clarified that he saw the two-year wait as an aspiration for the future, rather than an immediate priority. Times, Sunday Times When the cold war ended, in 1989, there was one group of people who faced an immediate problem. Times, Sunday Times The liquidity splurge certainly eased the immediate problem, but of course triggered another fear. Times, Sunday Times One immediate problem concerns the fate of the island's 2,000 reindeer, which will almost certainly eat the pellets when they are dropped. Times, Sunday Times However, that will not solve the immediate problem. Times, Sunday Times A merger will not solve the immediate problem of finding the creative leadership that can inspire programme-makers to produce a regular supply of hits. Times, Sunday Times And crucially, now as then, the immediate prospect of falling prices this time also flows substantially from cheaper imports - this time for oil and commodities. Times, Sunday Times His actions this week will not brighten his immediate prospect of joining it. Times, Sunday Times Trading at 13 times this year's forecast earnings and without the immediate prospect of a break-up, they look high enough for now. Times, Sunday Times No 10 has dangled an immediate prospect of a referendum on electoral reform. Times, Sunday Times The conduct of the election, though, holds out little immediate prospect of that. Times, Sunday Times With careful concentration, she can sense the emotions of others within her immediate proximity. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This detonation was designed to be highly lethal to anyone in immediate proximity, as well as being sufficient to destroy all materials in the cache. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The border becomes visible only in immediate proximity of the camera. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 First generation farmers can use this as an opportunity to own land and be in immediate proximity with the market, cutting out many expenses along the way. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 My immediate reaction was that this feels like an uncannily familiar place. Smithsonian Mag Champion was describing what he saw, and expressing his immediate reaction. Times, Sunday Times Long's immediate reaction was that he had to do something. Times, Sunday Times The broadcast caused an immediate reaction, with one well-known broadcaster condemning it as both subjective and naive. Times, Sunday Times While this won't get an immediate reaction, have no doubt, you'll have made your point. Times, Sunday Times Your risk of developing it rises by 20 per cent if an immediate relative has it. The Sun People descendent from remote collaterals of the common ancestor are lower in rank than those descendent from a more immediate relative of the chiefly line. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 At 84, she was his only immediate relative still living. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Does no one other than editors or their immediate relatives still read the paper, then? Times, Sunday Times When he was at his most frail, visitors were limited to his immediate relatives. Times, Sunday Times But observers say that it will provide little immediate relief. Times, Sunday Times Hot drinks provide immediate relief because the warmth stimulates your cilia, the tiny hairs that carry mucus out of your sinuses. The Sun People who do this are highly impulsive, find it hard to contain their emotions and seek immediate relief for their powerful feelings. The Sun Is it characteristic of you to seek immediate relief whenever you feel trapped or uncomfortable? Times, Sunday Times Results showed that those wearing the therapeutic tape experienced almost immediate relief of pain. Times, Sunday Times It turned out to be a carbuncle that required immediate removal at the local hospital. Times, Sunday Times His rise to prominence and immediate removal from the side remains a mystery. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This decision was condemned by politicians and civil society groups who called for his immediate removal from office. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 These activities and subsequent newspaper headlines led many colleagues and the public to demand his immediate removal from the college's faculty. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The deflation resulting from the immediate removal of a significant portion of the nation's money supply affected agriculture and business severely. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 However, a better move would have forced immediate resignation. Times, Sunday Times Little short of his immediate resignation would have appeased the popular revolt. Times, Sunday Times They are reportedly demanding his immediate resignation. The Sun Which ruthless move provoked an immediate resignation? Times,Sunday Times Yesterday he faced a tidal wave of public and political opinion urging immediate resignation. Times, Sunday Times A pastor's immediate response should be to offer care and comfort. Christianity Today He added that special courts would be established for the tournament so that there could be 'an immediate response' in the event of trouble. Times, Sunday Times Yet the immediate response from most sections of the governing coalition was nothing short of ecstatic. Times, Sunday Times It met with an immediate response: an army bulldozer was delivered and the work done without costing us a penny. Times, Sunday Times My immediate response to his imaginative misogyny - for it seems that traditional misogyny will not satisfy his appetites - was almost pity. Times, Sunday Times That seems to me to be a far more important development than the immediate result of this series. Times, Sunday Times At times, although acting from the highest motives, the immediate result may still seem disastrous. Times, Sunday Times With that in mind, the immediate result will be a surge in truck traffic as compliant truckers switch to lighter vehicles. ST Were we to try, the immediate result would be to strengthen his position, so adept has he been at playing the nationalist card. Times, Sunday Times You take a breath, switch off your phone and you're head down into something, which has an immediate result. The Sun Only one in 50 believe the measures should end, and just four per cent favour an immediate return to work. The Sun An expectation that 100million of investment this year will bring an immediate return. The Sun His lawyer demanded its immediate return, claiming it was essential for him to 'function in a civilised manner'. The Sun If you think that the world will become a much better place tomorrow, with an immediate return to financial stability, they are a clear sell. Times, Sunday Times Unfortunately, it looks like he may be booked for an immediate return to the second tier. The Sun They then had to decide whether to accept an immediate reward, or 'invest' in tokens that guaranteed a more worthwhile return later. Times, Sunday Times The tactical switch should have brought immediate reward. The Sun Subjects are labeled impulsive when their indifference points decline more steeply as a function of delay compared to the normal population (i.e., greater preference for immediate reward). Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 However, car manufacturers also hope to reap immediate rewards. Times, Sunday Times We are also afflicted by 'temporal discounting', the tendency to give greater value to immediate rewards than future ones. Times, Sunday Times He turned with immediate satisfaction as he picked up his tee, knowing he had given himself a chance. Times, Sunday Times He can't help but demand immediate satisfaction. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Conversely, when the participants focused on the immediate satisfactions of eating and smoking — that it made them feel good — their cravings became more intense. Times, Sunday Times The immediate solution lies in better waste management on land. Times, Sunday Times Also, explaining to hard-pressed clients needing an immediate solution that litigation took time. Times, Sunday Times I don't have to find an immediate solution to every problem or pressure. Christianity Today Do not expect an immediate solution. Times, Sunday Times The underlying problem has often been misdiagnosed by politicians who yearn for an uncontroversial and immediate solution. Times, Sunday Times He was an immediate success, specialising in crime and soon acquired a busy practice, being equally adept when defending or prosecuting. Times, Sunday Times As coach, of course we always want immediate success. Times, Sunday Times Even so, his immediate success took the political establishment by surprise. Times, Sunday Times Spot was an immediate success and to date more than 50million have been sold worldwide. The Sun Despite its immediate success, little has been seen or heard of it since. Times, Sunday Times The sponsorship of the arena expired after ten years in 2010 and was without an immediate successor. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 However, in the infinite case we can not rely upon an immediate successor relation, because points may not have successors. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Where there was an immediate successor state, membership would normally devolve on that state. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Above all, he was lucky in his immediate successors. Times, Sunday Times Its immediate successors sheltered under the reputation of their host universities until the late 1960s. Times, Sunday Times I also want the immediate supervisor and colleagues to interview the prospect. Christianity Today She also donated her left kidney to save the life of her immediate supervisor. Times, Sunday Times The doctor told his immediate supervisor in 1991 that he had the virus and a committee was formed to determine what kind of medical work he could do, she said. canada.com Minor allegations are investigated by immediate supervisors, while more serious and firing offenses are handled by internal affairs. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 But no one ever deposed the paralegal who wrote the memo, her immediate supervisors, or the clients who supposedly were prepared with the memo to testify. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The consultant then said she required immediate surgery. Times, Sunday Times Two years ago you discovered you had a brain aneurysm, which required immediate surgery to prevent it from rupturing. Times, Sunday Times Do you chase a medal or opt for immediate surgery? Times, Sunday Times The doctors gave him the option of immediate surgery, or monitoring his condition. Times, Sunday Times When paramedics finally arrived on the scene, he was determined to be in cardiac arrest and was taken to hospital for immediate surgery. Times, Sunday Times Instead, the protagonist's reflections on the world - and his place in it - are randomly prompted by observations of his immediate surroundings. The Times Literary Supplement It's a reminder of a world away, ancient and longstanding: an escape from your immediate surroundings and from the confines of the self. Times, Sunday Times Static or falling prices start to affect the immediate surroundings in upsetting ways. Times, Sunday Times She disguises these feelings by focusing a slow disdainful attention on her immediate surroundings. Times,Sunday Times Mindfulness works by reducing random thinking or rumination and replacing it with connectedness in the present to the senses, to immediate surroundings and to other people. Times, Sunday Times The council called for the immediate suspension of all crown court trials. Times,Sunday Times Both routes demand an immediate suspension of human nature. Times, Sunday Times He'll be placed on immediate suspension, so we can fully research these claims. Christianity Today He called for an immediate suspension of hostilities, the evacuation of 700 people needing urgent medical treatment and for aid deliveries. Times, Sunday Times An immediate suspension would conflict with the rules in force. Times, Sunday Times His immediate task will be to boost compliance. ST Secondly, he has made clear that, unlike his predecessor, he will limit his public pronouncement to his immediate task, rather than offering wider assessments of political and economic issues. Times, Sunday Times But the most immediate task will be getting suppliers back on board. Times, Sunday Times Out went the inaugural editor and in came his successor, who was given the immediate task of rescuing the ship from sinking. The Times Literary Supplement His immediate task was to solve the union crisis. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They saw that inflation was the immediate threat and assumed that it would raise the value of capital assets while liquidating debts. Times, Sunday Times (2008) Whoever she was, I concluded she was no immediate threat, so I slid off the chain lock. MURDER IN E MINOR True, there is no immediate threat to the central government. Outlook India (2005) One member of the party with a medical background was able to give immediate treatment before help arrived. Times, Sunday Times Immediate treatment can make partial or total recovery more likely. The Sun His experience with military head injuries led to advances in the immediate treatment of the head-injured patient and the development of titanium cranioplasty. Times, Sunday Times It has been fuelled by successive governments who have encouraged patients to feel that they are entitled to immediate treatment of anything, at any time. Times, Sunday Times Surgery can result in incontinence and impotence, and 50 per cent of patients now opt for regular monitoring instead of immediate treatment. Times, Sunday Times Five unlucky families within the immediate vicinity of the chasm won't be back until the new year at the earliest. Times, Sunday Times Too often when the ball wasn't in his immediate vicinity, he would stand and watch rather than try to offer support. Times, Sunday Times At present, football clubs are expected to meet the bill for policing inside grounds and in the immediate vicinity. Times, Sunday Times She established her small, fragrant pitch in the immediate vicinity of our spy's most comfy chair. Times, Sunday Times The words instantly appear on the internal displays of all the other cars in the immediate vicinity. Times, Sunday Times It was interesting - and comforting - to watch the emergency procedure carried out in the immediate wake of this tumble. Times, Sunday Times In the immediate wake of the last election, economic slowdown soon triggered a slump in consumer confidence to levels that could easily have meant a defeat. Times, Sunday Times By the time it all went horribly wrong, in the immediate wake of the 2008 financial crisis, he had managed to lose a fortune of some $50 billion. Times, Sunday Times They will be much bemused by football's immediate withdrawal of support. Times, Sunday Times Should one of them become president, neither will order an immediate withdrawal. Times, Sunday Times That should have resulted in immediate withdrawal. The Sun In one poll taken in 1951, 66 per cent favoured an immediate withdrawal. The Times Literary Supplement In the absence of any precise assurance, it had always been inherently foreseeable that there was the possibility of an immediate withdrawal. Times, Sunday Times Translations: Chinese: 立即的 Japanese: 早速の |
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