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单词 kodak moment
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Kodak (also Zen, etc.) moment
b. A period of time (not necessarily brief) marked by a particular quality of experience or by a memorable event. Used frequently in in a moment (also moments) of: during a brief period of, or under the momentary influence of, the condition, emotion, etc., specified. Also (in recent use) with preceding noun, as Kodak (also Zen, etc.) moment: a brief period of time marked by some aspect of the modifying word.
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the world > time > duration > shortness or brevity in time > [noun] > moment or instant > characterized by the quality of the experience
moment1872
moment critique1930
defining moment1967
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Isa. liv. 8 In a moment [L. momento] of indignacioun I hidde my face a litil fro thee.
a1542 T. Wyatt Coll. Poems (1969) 103 Suffer my Cryes thie marcye for to move, That wonted is a hundred yeares offence In momente of repentaunce to remove.
1789 T. Jefferson Let. 3 Aug. in Papers (1958) XV. 326 Such has been the firmness and wisdom of their proceedings in moments of adversity as well as prosperity, that I have the highest confidence that they will use their power justly.
1806 T. S. Surr Winter in London II. 159 In a moment of splenetic pride the jewels were dispatched.
1849 C. Brontë Let. 24 Mar. in E. C. Gaskell Life C. Brontë (1850) II. 76 In the time which has elapsed since Emily's death, there have been moments of solitary, deep, inert affliction, far harder to bear than those which immediately followed our loss.
1872 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch II. xlii. 370 Here was a man who now for the first time found himself looking into the eyes of death—who was passing through one of those rare moments of experience when we feel the truth of a commonplace.
1919 S. Maugham Moon & Sixpence xix. 161 Do we not know that man in moments of emotion expresses himself naturally in the terms of a novelette?
1931 A. Uttley Country Child xii. 146 She awoke later and lay holding her happiness, enjoying the moment.
1948 ‘J. Tey’ Franchise Affair xix. 220 He has his quixotic moments.
1983 R. D. Carson Taming your Gremlin viii. 111 We can all have the ultimately beautiful experience of this existence—..not a Zen moment,..but a pure and constant, readily available experience of our purest essence.
1994 Amer. Spectator Sept. 58/2 An attractive couple..take photographs of each other in a series of Kodak moments.
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