in a trice

常见例句

At literary parties, tiddly in a trice, she could be the life and soul, mistaking the queen for Vera Lynn loudly and to her face, or inviting men to join her under the piano.
在文学聚会上，顷刻之间，她便成为中心人物，大声的说她曾误将女王当做薇拉·林恩，或者邀请男人与她共同弹琴。
To cap it all, NATO, in its frustration at failing to remove the regime in a trice, is killing civilians—the very crime it was meant, under UN Security Council Resolution 1973, to prevent.
在北约瞬间摧毁拉扎菲政权的计划失败后，北约开始杀害平民，犯下了极其严重的罪行，这也违反了联合国安理会第1973号决议中关于保护平民的规定。
Around 90% of the energy was not light but heat, as anyone changing a bulb too readily would discover in a trice.
大约90%的能量不是用于发光而是发热，任何一个换灯泡的人都能非常容易地立刻发觉。

In a trice Mr Jospin would no longer be his party's hero, but its scapegoat.
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