英语词汇“moment”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	moment
释义	mo·ment \ˈmōmənt\ noun (-s) Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French, from Latin momentum movement, motion, moment, influence, from earlier (assumed) movimentum, from movēre to move + -mentum -ment — more at move 1. a. : a minute portion of time < the moment stretched out to a minute, the minute to an hour — Hesketh Pearson > < a moment of dreadful suspense — Graham Greene > b. : a point of time : instant < to us … the moment 8:17 a.m. means something — Aldous Huxley > < at this very moment of his life's lowest ebb — Osbert Sitwell > < if the great famine had not come along at that particular moment — Paul Blanshard > c. : a comparatively brief period of time < this whole moment of thought hardly lasted five minutes — Carl Jonas > < in moments of solitude when I was milking the cows — David Fairchild > < a presidential candidate … must symbolize the forces seeking expression during his moment in history — V.L.Albjerg > d. : the present time — usually used with the < at the moment she is at work on her fourth novel — Holiday > < the … flavor so much in fashion at the moment — Kenneth Hince > < a catchword of the moment — J.A.R.Pimlott > e. : a particular period (as of importance, significance, or pleasure) < all had their moments when their subject … made them greater than their normal selves — R.E.Priestley > < sailors have their moments as in any seaboard town — American Guide Series: New Hampshire > 2. obsolete : a minute portion or part : particle < every little moment of the earth — Thomas Blundeville > 3. : importance in influence or effect : consequence, consideration, weight < decisions of moment must be made by our government — L.H.Evans > < meanings which are … of no moment to the student — Edward Sapir > < taught men to reckon virtue of more moment than security — W.F.Hambly > < the political issues of their day seemed … of enormous moment — Christopher Hollis > 4. obsolete : a cause or motive of action : an influential point or consideration : a deciding factor < I have seen her die twenty times upon far poorer moment — Shakespeare > 5. : a definite period or point in a course of events: as a. : a stage in historical development (as of an institution) < a document of one moment in the history of thought and sensibility in the nineteenth century — T.S.Eliot > b. : a stage in logical development, in cognition, or in the growing adequacy of thought c. : a phase, aspect, or partial apprehension of a subject or thing d. in existentialist theology : a timeless point of decision within the inner subjectivity of a person when he freely enacts his relationship to eternity 6. a. : tendency or measure of tendency to produce motion especially about a point or axis b. : the product of quantity (as a force) and the distance to a particular axis or point — see moment of a couple, moment of a force, moment of inertia 7. : an essential or constituent element (as of a complex conceptual entity) < the understanding is a necessary moment in the reason — Bernard Bosanquet > 8. : the average or sum of the deviations or some power of the deviations of the elements of a frequency distribution from a specified norm Synonyms: see importance
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