1IMMEDIATELYhappening or done at once and without delay 立刻的,即时的
Our immediate response to the attack was sheer horror.
我们对攻击的第一反应就是非常惊恐。
They promise immediate action to help the unemployed.
他们承诺立即采取行动帮助失业者。
If the eyes are affected, seek immediate medical attention.
如果眼睛感染了要立即就医。
2[only before noun]NOWexisting now, and needing to be dealt with quickly 目前的;当下的;紧迫的
Let’s try and solve the most immediate problem.
让我们尽力解决最急迫的问题吧。
There is an immediate danger of war.
战争迫在眉睫。
3[only before noun]AFTERBEFORE happening just before or just after someone or something else 最接近的;紧接的
The most immediate effect of retirement is a dramatic reduction in living standards.
退休的最直接影响是生活水准的大幅度下降。
He promised that there would be no tax increases in the immediate future.
他承诺短期内不会提高税收。
4[only before noun]NEAR next to, or very near to, a particular place 〔地方〕邻近的;紧邻的
It is a thriving shopping centre for the people who live in the immediate area.
这是一家为附近居民服务的生意兴隆的购物中心。
5.immediate familyFAMILYpeople who are very closely related to you, such as your parents, children, brothers, and sisters 直系亲属〔如父母、子女、兄弟姐妹等〕
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immediate family• Cancerclaimed the lives of her parents and hit 14 of 17 people in her immediate family.• My own camp was wedged between the two branches of my immediate family.• Oh, and I should probably start with your immediate family.• She was not going out at all and was communicating very little with her immediate family.• She was respectfully requested to keep the fact he is on special assignment to herself and her immediate family.• Instead she joined her immediate family for a service at the privatechapel on the Althorp estate.• Her husband and her immediate family live in Moscow.• The brotherhood of man did not end with the immediate family of siblings at which it began.
immediate problem• Any threat to the vision in one eye is far more serious than the immediate problem.• But that doesn't solve the immediate problem.• I had a more immediate problem.• The actions to be described next are most effective in the here-and-now; they are designed to resolveimmediate problems.• Water, the most obvious and important resource, was not an immediate problem.• But JackMason had solved the immediate problem for me.• This is not an immediate problem in the hectic process of establishing the great new structure.• Mercury's immediate problem is getting the limitedLondon service working.
immediate effect• It advanced the use of shock to cure anything by scaring it out of your body, with immediate effect.• On Feb. 20 the Volkskammer approved a new electoral law to have immediate effect.• The most immediate effect of all this has been the announcement of increased mortgagerates.• The most immediate effect of his proposal would be to block gaming by the SaltRivertribe.• You need to determine whether the trend will extendbeyond the immediate effect of the earningsstatement.• The group said it was acting quickly because it feared that the new law would have an immediate effect on the Internet.• Indirect taxes can be varied more quickly and easily, taking more immediate effect, than can direct taxes.• This important volume, subsequently republished in parts, did not perhaps have the immediate effect that might have been expected.
immediate area• Easily Accessible: Downhayes is set in an area of small working farms with few public footpaths in the immediate area.• Sparta offers delivery in the immediate area.• The great majority of non-employees who commit crimes against business will live in the immediate area.• Try to think more positively about walks, and wake up to new opportunitiesoutside your immediate area.• Police evacuated the immediate area and began a meticuloussearch for other bombs after the second explosion.• The few burrows in this immediate area had never been allowed to develop fully.• Maureen searched the immediate area, hoping to find the missinglimb, but no luck.• Outside the immediate area of commercialization, however, another phenomenon appeared.
Originimmediate
(1300-1400)Late Latinimmediatus, from mediatus“in between, separated”