blink of an eye

基本解釋

The whole process generally takes some 150 milliseconds, or less than half the blink of an eye.
整個(gè)過(guò)程通常大概衹有150毫秒，比一眨眼的時(shí)間的一半還要短。
The encounter, though, has been going on for about a few hundred million years, the blink of an eye in cosmic history.
遭遇過(guò)程卻衹進(jìn)行了大約幾百萬(wàn)年，對(duì)於宇宙的歷史來(lái)說(shuō)衹是一眨眼的工夫。
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In the blink of an eye all of my certainty evaporated as though I'd never had it—what would I do if he didn't turn around?
就在一眨眼的那一瞬間，我已設(shè)定好的一切一下子都蒸發(fā)了，倣彿我從未設(shè)定過(guò)什麼似的——如果他不轉(zhuǎn)身，我還能做什麼呢？

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In that context, a difference in the blink of an eye is no surprise at all.
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