immediate是什么意思？

They need to rid their minds of sentimentalism ( ' , 感情用事): the most successful teams have leaders who are able to set an overall direction and take immediate action.

Leah's first yoga studio was by no means an immediate success.

Of all those trends, however, the spread of water shortages poses the most immediate threat.

To get alcohol out of drivers' immediate sight.

value immediate benefits most.

If your complaint doesn't require an immediate response, it often helps to complain by letter.

Francesca Haass, a senior at middlebury, says, "I find the in-class ones are more stressful in the short term, but there is immediate relief as you swallow information like mad, and then you get to forget it all."

The immediate cause for the collapse has been Britain's slide toward recession, which has cut into consumer spending.

They need to rid their minds of sentimentalism: the most successful teams have leaders who are able to set an overall direction and take immediate action.

We have everything to gain by encouraging them to explore the world beyond their immediate experience and to prepare themselves for their turn at shaping that world.

But we also found little interest in civic life beyond the tight circles of their family and immediate friends.

Evolution has programmed humans to pay most attention to issues that will have an immediate impact.

The fight for racial and economic equality is intensely pragmatic (讲求实用的) and immediate in its impact.

It may not bring about immediate economic gains

This will help improve produce handling in the harvest, and immediate post-harvest stages of food production.

Indeed, the Obama effect can be surprisingly immediate and powerful, as Ray Friedman of Vanderbilt University and his colleagues discovered.

A global campaign has been launched to create a network of ocean sanctuaries to protect the seas in the region and Greenpeace is calling for an immediate halt to fishing in areas being considered for sanctuary status.

Instead, they perform routine and laborious tasks, freeing nurses up to attend to patients with immediate needs.

The immediate effect of printing was to increase the circulation of works that were already popular in a handwritten form, while less popular works went out of circulation.

The study by Greenpeace analysed the movements of krill fishing vessels in the region and found they were increasingly operating "in the immediate vicinity of penguin colonies and whale feeding grounds" It also highlights incidents of fishing boats being