Substitutions of one gesture for the other often create not only humorous but also embarrassing moment.
出自-2014年6月听力原文
And what's more, you use it every day, almost every moment of your life.
出自-2012年6月听力原文
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月阅读原文
For a moment the other day, she thought she might have hit on a good one.
出自-2013年12月阅读原文
She never had a moment to herself, she said, because her son was "always in the way"
出自-2013年12月阅读原文
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.
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片刻;瞬间
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...
一转眼他就不见了。
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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时刻;时候
A particular moment is the point in time at which something happens.
例句
At this moment a car stopped at the house...
就在这时，一辆轿车在房前停下了。
Many people still remember the moment when they heard that President Kennedy had been assassinated.
很多人仍然记得听到肯尼迪总统遇刺的那一刻。
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随时;马上;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...
他们冒着随时会中弹的危险。
He'll be here to see you any moment now.
他马上就会来这儿看你。
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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...
此刻没人跟我说话。
This is being planned at the present moment...
目前这件事正在计划中。
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哪怕一闪念
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.
我从来没想过将来会离婚。
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暂时;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.
不过目前政府对此还乐于容忍。
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有成功(或得意)的时刻；有吸引人的时刻
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...
这部电影有其吸引人之处。
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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最后一刻;最后时刻
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.
他们在最后一刻改变主意，决定不去了。
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下一刻，一会儿，紧接着（尤指突然发生很大变化）
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...
接着发生了剧烈的撞击。
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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PHRASE
红极一时;盛行一时
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?
他现在很红，不是吗？
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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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.
我闭上眼睛就睡着了。