His marriage to actress Julia Roberts made him an instant celebrity for reasons completely unrelated to music.

VOA: special.2010.02.19

So in this case, the communication worked but am I right in thinking that the communication isn't such an instant solution as it was in the game we saw last time?

在这个博弈中,交流起到了作用,但是能说这和上一讲的博弈一样吗,交流并没能直接给出解决的方案

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

And I'm very interested in what happened in the French suburbs two years ago; in fact, I wrote an instant article on it for an encyclopedia because some of the work I'd earlier done was about why French suburbs and European suburbs are different than American suburbs.

我对两年前,在法国郊区的事很感兴趣,其实我当时就给一个百科全书,写了一篇文章,因为我以前研究过,为什么法国和欧洲的郊区,与美国郊区有这么大的差别

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

Her performance is said to have made her an instant star.

VOA: special.2009.11.30

If you're looking for a piece of software Baidu Hai -it's an instant messenger software we delivered-- we will show that to you.

如果你要找百度Hi这个软件,这是一种,即时通讯软件，搜索页面会显示出来。

斯坦福公开课 - 百度CEO李彦宏演讲：全球最大搜索引擎的发展课程节选

There was an instant of extreme cold and total darkness.

VOA: special.2010.07.10

She and the Chevy seemed parked at the center of an odd religious instant, as if on some other frequency, or out of the eye of some whirlwind rotating too slow for her heated skin even to feel the centrifugal coolness of words were being spoken.

她和她的雪佛兰车，似乎停在了,一个宗教瞬间的中心，就像在其他的频率上，又像是离开了旋风的风眼,风转的如此之慢，以至于她灼热的皮肤,感觉不到言语带来的，离心般的寒冷。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

(MUSIC:"We Are The World") The release of the original "We Are The World" on March 7,1985 was an instant success.

VOA: standard.2010.02.18

And for many others, in Iraq and in other nations, the act turned the journalist into an instant folk hero, inspiring rallies, offers of money and marriage, as well as a statue of a bronze shoe.

VOA: standard.2009.09.15

Professor Johnson suspects a strong link between the rise of instant and casual communication online and an increase in writing mistakes.

VOA: special.2010.01.28