英汉词典

moment 基本解释

• n. 重要，契机；瞬间；重要时刻；指定时刻
• n. (Moment)人名；(英)莫门特

moment 词态变化

moment 中文词源

来自拉丁语momentum,运动，变化，冲击，短时间，瞬间，缩写自movimentum,来自movere,运动，移动，词源同move,movement.拼写比较mobile.

moment 英文词源

moment

moment: [14] As the closely related momentum [17] suggests, ‘movement’ is the etymological notion underlying moment. It comes via Old French moment from Latin mōmentum. This was a contraction of an assumed earlier *movimentum, a derivative of movēre ‘move’ (source of English move), and it had a wide range of meanings: from the literal ‘movement’ (preserved in English in the directly borrowed momentum) developed the metaphorical ‘instant of time’ (which arose from the notion of a particle so small as only just to ‘move’ the pointer of a scale) and ‘importance’ – both preserved in English moment.

The former has been allotted the derived adjective momentary [16], the latter momentous [17].
=> momentous, momentum, move

moment (n.)

mid-14c., "very brief portion of time, instant," in moment of time, from Old French moment (12c.) "moment, minute; importance, weight, value" or directly from Latin momentum "movement, motion; moving power; alteration, change;" also "short time, instant" (also source of Spanish, Italian momento), contraction of *movimentum, from movere "to move" (see move (v.)). Some (but not OED) explain the sense evolution of the Latin word by notion of a particle so small it would just "move" the pointer of a scale, which led to the transferred sense of "minute time division." Sense of "importance, 'weight' " is attested in English from 1520s.

Phrase never a dull moment first recorded 1889 in Jerome K. Jerome's "Three Men in a Boat." Phrase moment of truth first recorded 1932 in Hemingway's "Death in the Afternoon," from Spanish el momento de la verdad, the final sword-thrust in a bull-fight.

moment 词组搭配

moment 英文释义

1. a particular point in time;

"the moment he arrived the party began"

2. an indefinitely short time;

"wait just a moment"

"it only takes a minute"

"in just a bit"

3. at this time;

"the disappointments of the here and now"

"she is studying at the moment"

4. having important effects or influence;

"decisions of great consequence are made by the president himself"

"virtue is of more moment that security"

5. the moment of a couple is the product of its force and the distance between its opposing forces

6. the n-th moment of a distribution is the expected value of the n-th power of the deviations from a fixed value

moment 同义词解析

moment, minute, instant

这些名词均含"瞬间，片刻"之意。

moment较minute所表示的时间短，指一刹那或一段很短时间。有时也含持续的意味。

minute： 指极短的时间，但可觉察到时间的持续。

instant常与moment换用，指一瞬间，但更侧重时间短促，多用于表示紧迫、瞬变等情况。

moment 双语例句

1. I'll report back the moment I have located him.

我一找到他就马上汇报。

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2. He's touring South America at this moment in time.

他此刻正在南美旅游观光。

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3. Gail was silent for a moment, regarding Harry with his steady gaze.

盖尔镇定地注视着哈里，沉默了片刻。

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4. It was an unbelievable moment when Chris won the gold medal.

克里斯赢得金牌的那一刻令人不可思议。

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5. He'll be here to see you any moment now.

他马上就会来这儿看你。

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moment 实用场景例句

Could you wait a moment , please?

请您稍等一下，好吗？

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One moment, please (= Please wait a short time) .

请稍候！

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He thought for a moment before replying.

他想了一下才回答。

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I'll be back in a moment .

我一会儿就回来。

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We arrived not a moment too soon (= almost too late) .

我们到得一点也不早。

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Moments later (= a very short time later) , I heard a terrible crash.

过了一会儿，我听到一声可怕的撞击声。

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We're busy at the moment (= now) .

我们这会儿很忙。

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I agreed in a moment of weakness.

我一时心软就答应了。

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At that very moment , the phone rang.

就在那时，电话铃响了。

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From that moment on , she never felt really well again.

从那时候开始，她就再也没真正好受过。

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I'm waiting for the right moment to tell him the bad news.

我得找个适当的时机告诉他这个坏消息。

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That was one of the happiest moments of my life.

那是我一生中最快乐的一段时光。

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In a moment he was gone...

一转眼他就不见了。

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She stared at him a moment, then turned away...

她凝视他片刻，然后转过脸去。

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At this moment a car stopped at the house...

就在这时，一辆轿车在房前停下了。

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Many people still remember the moment when they heard that President Kennedy had been assassinated.

很多人仍然记得听到肯尼迪总统遇刺的那一刻。

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They ran the risk of being shot at any moment...

他们冒着随时会中弹的危险。

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He'll be here to see you any moment now.

他马上就会来这儿看你。

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At the moment, no one is talking to me...

此刻没人跟我说话。

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This is being planned at the present moment...

目前这件事正在计划中。

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I don't for a moment think there'll be a divorce.

我从来没想过将来会离婚。

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For the moment, however, the government is happy to live with it.

不过目前政府对此还乐于容忍。

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The film has its moments...

这部电影有其吸引人之处。

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He's not the thoroughly outgoing character you'd predict, although he has his moments.

虽然他也有活泼的时候，但他并非如你所想的那么外向。

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They changed their minds at the last moment and refused to go.

他们在最后一刻改变主意，决定不去了。

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The next moment there was an almighty crash...

接着发生了剧烈的撞击。

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He is unpredictable, weeping one moment, laughing the next.

他喜怒无常，一会儿哭，一会儿笑。

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He's the man of the moment, isn't he?

他现在很红，不是吗？

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He calls it a 'contraption', using his favourite word of the moment.

他用了眼下他最喜欢说的“玩意儿”一词来称呼它。

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The moment I closed my eyes, I fell asleep.

我闭上眼睛就睡着了。

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