The performance is so visceral, creepy, and insistently present that the characterization pulls you in almost at once.

表演是如此发自内心、令人恐惧、仿佛亲临其境，因此他的角色立刻吸引住你。

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Annie hesitated for a moment before stepping through the doorway where, almost at once, she stopped delighted before a green armchair.

安妮犹豫了一会儿，才走到门口，随即欣喜地停在一张绿色扶手椅前。

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I began to cry almost at once.

我立即开始哭泣，哭得满脸泪花。

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See, to be honest even though it might feel like a whole of new stuff at once, it's a pretty small language and so we've almost seen all of the syntactic features thus far so now we'll be able to start focusing more on concepts.

瞧，即使它感觉好像一个新的东西,它是一种相当小的语言,我们迄今看到的几乎所有的语法特征,现在我们将把重点放在概念上。

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Almost at once dozens of displaced civilians started taking their staple dry rations to town.

ECONOMIST: Eking a living from handouts

Much of this, including a (20%, but still below-inflation) pay rise for public servants, will take effect almost at once.

ECONOMIST: Venezuela

After Harold Washington died suddenly, in his second term, his achievement, such as it was, fell to pieces almost at once.

NEWYORKER: The Conciliator