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单词 for a long moment
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for a long moment
long moment n. a brief period of time which is perceived as being of great duration, esp. when marked by a pause in activity or occupied by mental reflection; esp. in for a long moment.
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1741 L. Theobald Happy Captive iii. i. 33 Each long Moment seems a Day, Time stands still, when she's away.
1872 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch II. xxxi. 140 After sitting two long moments while he moved his whip and could say nothing, Lydgate rose to go.
1992 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 30 Oct. a13/1 ‘What's the point?’ asks a wiseguy in the back row. Teach ponders this for a long moment, then agreeably replies, ‘Why don't I tell you another story?’
2003 J. Lloyd & E. Rees Love Lives (2004) xxiii. 374 There was a long moment of silence between them.
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