Substitutions of one gesture for the other often create not only humorous but also embarrassing moment.
出自-2014年6月聽力原文
And what's more, you use it every day, almost every moment of your life.
出自-2012年6月聽力原文
Modern airplanes have two black boxes: a voice recorder, which tracks pilots' conversations,and a flight-data recorder, which monitors fuel levels, engine noises and other operating functions that help investigators reconstruct the aircraft's final moments.
出自-2010年6月閱讀原文
For a moment the other day, she thought she might have hit on a good one.
出自-2013年12月閱讀原文
She never had a moment to herself, she said, because her son was "always in the way"
出自-2013年12月閱讀原文
At the moment candidates are selected on a fairly narrow set of criteria such as prior academic and career performance, and analytical and problem solving abilities.
出自-2011年6月閱讀原文
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片刻;瞬間
You can refer to a very short period of time, for example a few seconds, as a moment or moments .
例句
In a moment he was gone...
一轉眼他就不見了。
She stared at him a moment, then turned away...
她凝視他片刻，然后轉過臉去。
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時刻;時候
A particular moment is the point in time at which something happens.
例句
At this moment a car stopped at the house...
就在這時，一輛轎車在房前停下了。
Many people still remember the moment when they heard that President Kennedy had been assassinated.
很多人仍然記得聽到肯尼迪總統遇刺的那一刻。
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PHRASE
隨時;馬上;即刻
If you say that something will or may happen at any moment or any moment now, you are emphasizing that it is likely to happen very soon.
例句
They ran the risk of being shot at any moment...
他們冒著隨時會中彈的危險。
He'll be here to see you any moment now.
他馬上就會來這兒看你。
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PHRASE
此刻;目前;眼下
You use expressions such as at the moment ,at this moment, and at the present moment to indicate that a particular situation exists at the time when you are speaking.
例句
At the moment, no one is talking to me...
此刻沒人跟我說話。
This is being planned at the present moment...
目前這件事正在計劃中。
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PHRASE
哪怕一閃念
If you say that you do not believe for a moment or for one moment that something is true, you are emphasizing that you do not believe that it could possibly be true.
例句
I don't for a moment think there'll be a divorce.
我從來沒想過將來會離婚。
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PHRASE
暫時;目前
You use for the moment to indicate that something is true now, even if it will not be true in the future.
例句
For the moment, however, the government is happy to live with it.
不過目前政府對此還樂于容忍。
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有成功(或得意)的時刻；有吸引人的時刻
If you say that someone or something has their moments, you are indicating that there are times when they are successful or interesting, but that this does not happen very often.
例句
The film has its moments...
這部電影有其吸引人之處。
He's not the thoroughly outgoing character you'd predict, although he has his moments.
雖然他也有活潑的時候，但他并非如你所想的那么外向。
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PHRASE
最后一刻;最后時刻
If someone does something at the last moment, they do it at the latest time possible.
例句
They changed their minds at the last moment and refused to go.
他們在最后一刻改變主意，決定不去了。
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下一刻，一會兒，緊接著（尤指突然發生很大變化）
You use the expression the next moment, or expressions such as 'one moment he was there, the next he was gone', to emphasize that something happens suddenly, especially when it is very different from what was happening before.
例句
The next moment there was an almighty crash...
接著發生了劇烈的撞擊。
He is unpredictable, weeping one moment, laughing the next.
他喜怒無常，一會兒哭，一會兒笑。
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PHRASE
紅極一時;盛行一時
You use of the moment to describe someone or something that is or was especially popular at a particular time, especially when you want to suggest that their popularity is unlikely to last long or did not last long.
例句
He's the man of the moment, isn't he?
他現在很紅，不是嗎？
He calls it a 'contraption', using his favourite word of the moment.
他用了眼下他最喜歡說的“玩意兒”一詞來稱呼它。
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一…就
If you say that something happens the moment something else happens, you are emphasizing that it happens immediately after the other thing.
例句
The moment I closed my eyes, I fell asleep.
我閉上眼睛就睡著了。