1.立即的；立刻的happening or done without delay
an immediate reaction/response即时的反应╱回应
to take immediate action立刻采取行动
2.[ubn]目前的；当前的；迫切的existing now and needing urgent attention
Our immediate concern is to help the families of those who died.我们的当务之急是帮助那些死者的亲属。
The effects of global warming, while not immediate, are potentially catastrophic.全球气温上升的后果虽然并非即时发生，但可能潜伏着大灾难。
The hospital says she's out of immediate danger .医院说她眼下已没有危险。
3.[obn]接近的；附近的；紧接的next to or very close to a particular place or time
in the immediate vicinity近在咫尺
The prospects for the immediate future are good.短期内前景乐观。
The director is standing on her immediate right.主管就挨在她的右边站着。
my immediate predecessor in the job(= the person who had the job just before me)我的职位的前一任
4.[obn]（关系或级别）最接近的，直系的，直接的nearest in relationship or rank
The funeral was attended by her immediate family(= her parents, children, brothers and sisters) only.只有她的直系亲属参加了葬礼。
He is my immediate superior(= the person directly above me) in the company.他在公司里是我的顶头上司。
5.[obn]（作用）直接的having a direct effect
The immediate cause of death is unknown.造成死亡的直接原因不明。
He praised the board for its immediate action but it never followed up "and there was no real check on my wife or me" .
他称赞委员会行动迅速但它绝不会寻根究底，也没有对我妻子或我进行真正的检查。
There was no immediate comment from Chinese top refiner Sinopec on the reported signing of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Iran.
中国石化方面没有就同伊朗签署谅解备忘录的报导立即置评。
The US is thought to be favourable, although Ms Lagarde did not win an immediate endorsement from Washington.
外界认为美国也支持拉加德，尽管美国政府还没有马上表态支持。
What's more, there has not been a standard pattern in "problem research" , which deserves our immediate study.
另外，“问题研究”应该如何去操作，没有一个统一的操作模式，这本身就是一个值得研究的课题。
Moreover, the frustration of naval limitation did not bring with it an immediate turn to unlimited rearmament.
况且，海军部分的扫兴没有带来以它一个直接轮给无穷的重新武装。
My immediate thought was that his wife would probably be furious that he had brought home a young female hitchhiker, unannounced .
我立刻就想到她的妻子可能会很愤怒，因为没有事先说好就载一名年轻的女性回家。
If it does happen, oppose any request for a continuance that the prosecution makes, and ask for an immediate dismissal of all charges.
如果交警没有出庭，你应当反对任何关于延期诉讼的要求，并要求得到因诉讼被突然解雇的所有费用。
"My immediate reaction was utter sympathy for this woman, " Mrs. Boesky said in a telephone interview, adding that she does not know Mrs.
“我的第一反应是完全同情这个女人，”博斯基太太在电话采访中说。
The devaluation of the currency had an immediate effect. Japanese textiles began to displace British textiles in export markets.
货币贬值策略立竿见影，日本纺织品开始代替大英帝国占据出口市场。
It is comforting, slightly, that the regime is still at least a few years away from posing an immediate threat.
聊可宽慰的是，北韩政权至少还得修炼几年才能对国际社会造成马上的威胁。
The interest- rate benchmark would be set over a long period, so it would not be unduly influenced by immediate market stresses.
利率将以长期水平为基准，以防止受短期市场波动的过多影响。
The bottom line: Prediabetes is an immediate risk and a shadow hanging over your future health.
底线：糖尿病前期是笼罩你未来健康的的一个即时的危险因子。
When she appeared in traffic court, she asked the judge for immediate attention to her case as she was due to be back in class.
她到了交通法庭后，要求法官先处理她的案子，因为她要赶回去上课。
But it was an immediate attraction and it was just a life-changing experience to have met him.
那真是一见钟情，而且遇见他改写了我一生的命运。
By implementing these simple 9 steps, you'll notice an immediate change in how much you can get done.
通过执行这九个简单的步骤，你会立即发现你能完成的工作量变了。
Necessity is often called hard, and rightly so, if we keep to necessity as such, i. e. to its immediate shape.
必然性常常被称为是坚硬的，但就必然性本身，或就必然性的直接形态而言，这话诚然不错。
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attacks, which come amid heightened ethnic and sectarian tensions in Iraq.
目前还没有人宣称对这些爆炸袭击负责，这是在伊拉克各种族以及派系之间的关系更加紧张之际发生这些袭击的。
There was no immediate comment from Spain, a signatory to the cluster munition convention, on the provenance of the bombs.
目前炸弹的来源地并且签署了子母弹协议的西班牙没有发表任何声明。
There was no immediate financial market reaction to his remarks, which had been broadly anticipated.
金融市场对此未有即刻反应，因市场此前普遍预期到了此番论调。
But there was an immediate price, as the lone dissenter from Prime Minister Papandreou's parliamentary party was quickly dispelled.
但有一个即时的价格，因为希腊总理帕潘德里欧议会中的唯一反对者很快就被驱逐。
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