INSTANT

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Traducere în limba română

instant I. adjectiv

1. urgent, grabnic, presant;

we have instant need of you avem mare nevoie de dumneata.

2. stăruitor;

to be instant with smb. to do smth. a stărui pe lingă cineva să facă ceva, a ruga insistent pe cineva să facă ceva.

3. (presc. inst.) (com.) curent, al acestei luni;

on the 6th instant la 6 curent, la 6 ale acestei luni;

my letter of the 6th instant scrisoarea mea din 6 curent / din 6 ale acestei luni / din 6 curent.

4. imediat, neîntârziat;

this calls instant remedy aceasta reclamă o remediere imediată, acest lucru trebuie remediat fără întârziere.

instant II. substantiv

clipă, moment;

we expect him every instant îl aşteptăm din moment în moment / de la o clipă la alta;

come this instant vino in clipa asta / chiar acum, vino numaidecât / imediat;

I am going this instant plec chiar acum / chiar în clipa asta;

on the instant imediat, pe loc, numaidecât;

not an instant too soon tocmai la timp / la ţanc;

the instant he arrived a) în momentul în care a sosit; b) de îndată, imediat ce sosi, cum sosi;

at the very instant chiar în clipa aceea, chiar în acel moment, tocmai atunci.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

“Mr. Peters will be with you in an instant,” she said.

(His Last Bow, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He must have leaped, also, at the same instant, straight down on Wolf Larsen.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

She was there in an instant, and I caught a glimpse of it as she half drew it out.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I said to him:—"Go to Dr. Van Helsing, and ask him to kindly come here at once. I want him without an instant's delay."

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

For an instant, I supposed that the Doctor was ill.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

A true knight would never have asked, but would have vowed upon the instant.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

An instant later the mystery was explained.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

At that instant my father entered.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The report fell in at the same instant of time.

(Treasure Island, de Robert Louis Stevenson)

The next instant he had Joe by the hand.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

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