| 词汇 | thesaurus_articles_without-delay-or-waiting |
| 释义 | without delay or waitingThese words describe when you do something without waiting, or when things happen without a delay. One of the most common words for this is immediately. Immediately is used in more official situations. Please report to the office immediately. She immediately volunteered to pick her boyfriend up from the airport. On opposite of immediately is later. Later is used to say you will do something at some point in the future, but not now or not soon. "Can you put away the dishes for me?" "I'll do it later." For more opposites of immediately, see the article at afterwards. You can also use now in speech or in less official situations to say that something must happen without delay. To emphasize that something needs to happen without any delay, you can say right now, right away, or straight away. All of these words and phrases are used more often in speech or in less formal situations than immediately. Right now and right away are more common in US English, and straight away is more common in UK English. I need you to get me that report now. You put that back right now. If you're going to call the doctor, you'd better do it right away - the office is closing in two minutes. I called them back straight away. If you want to say that something needs to happen without delay, and especially while you wait, you can say it must happen at once or it must happen forthwith. Forthwith is very formal. At once is more formal than right now and straightaway, but not as formal as forthwith. Stop this nonsense at once! All legal actions undertaken by the parties must cease forthwith. To say that you have started to do something, or something has started to happen now, you can use this minute. This minute is often used with right or just. I don't have time to talk - I'm leaving the house right this minute. You can also say that someone is doing something immediately, and perhaps without planning for it or without preparing for it, by saying they are doing it then and there. Then and there can be used with right to emphasize how quickly something happens. She was so caught up in the emotion of the moment that she proposed to him right then and there. Instantly and instantaneously are both used to say that something happens immediately after something else, but instantaneously is often used to say that something happens without any time between the thing that starts it and the action that begins from that thing. I stepped outside and was instantly freezing. With this new technology, captions are produced instantaneously, as the actor speaks. |
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