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immediacy n.直接；立即；即时性；迫切性 (1) 我们的目标是对紧急求救电话立刻作出回应。(2) 他没意识到这个问题的紧迫性。 Something that's immediate, or instantaneous, has the quality of immediacy. Another way to use this noun is to mean "directly," or "firsthand." For example, when people first viewed live news reports on television, they probably marveled at the immediacy of watching something as it was happening, directly and without delay. Immediacy has been in use since about 1600, and it comes from the adjective immediate, with its Latin root of immediatus, "without anything in between."

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英 [ɪ'miːdiəsi] 美 [ɪ'miːdiəsi] (1) Our aim is immediacy of response to emergency calls.(2) He did not realize the immediacy of the problem. Use the noun immediacy to talk about the lighting-fast speed with which something happens. If you order pizza and see the delivery driver pull up in front of your house two minutes later, you'll be amazed at the immediacy of your pizza's arrival. 1[N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词]即时性；紧迫性 The immediacy of an event or situation is the quality that it has which makes it seem important or exciting because it is happening at the present time.   [oft N of n]Do they understand the immediacy of the crisis?...他们明白危机的紧迫性吗？The books that result have intensity and a fascinating immediacy, far beyond that of ordinary narrative.结果写出来的书情节紧张，矛盾冲突强烈，令人欲罢不能，效果与使用普通的叙事手法大为不同。

英语单词	immediacy
英美音标	英 [ɪ'miːdiəsi] 美 [ɪ'miːdiəsi]
中文释义	n.直接；立即；即时性；迫切性
英语例句	(1) Our aim is immediacy of response to emergency calls. (2) He did not realize the immediacy of the problem.
中文例句	(1) 我们的目标是对紧急求救电话立刻作出回应。 (2) 他没意识到这个问题的紧迫性。
vocabulary简明	Use the noun immediacy to talk about the lighting-fast speed with which something happens. If you order pizza and see the delivery driver pull up in front of your house two minutes later, you'll be amazed at the immediacy of your pizza's arrival.
vocabulary扩展	Something that's immediate, or instantaneous, has the quality of immediacy. Another way to use this noun is to mean "directly," or "firsthand." For example, when people first viewed live news reports on television, they probably marveled at the immediacy of watching something as it was happening, directly and without delay. Immediacy has been in use since about 1600, and it comes from the adjective immediate, with its Latin root of immediatus, "without anything in between."
柯林斯解释	1 [N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词]即时性；紧迫性 The immediacy of an event or situation is the quality that it has which makes it seem important or exciting because it is happening at the present time. [oft N of n] Do they understand the immediacy of the crisis?... 他们明白危机的紧迫性吗？ The books that result have intensity and a fascinating immediacy, far beyond that of ordinary narrative. 结果写出来的书情节紧张，矛盾冲突强烈，令人欲罢不能，效果与使用普通的叙事手法大为不同。

Immediacy Noun Quality 英 ɪ'Miːdiəsi] 美 ɪ'Miːdiəsi N.直接；立即；即时性；迫切性 Aim