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n. 间隔时间, 其时

ad. 其间




    meantime
    [ noun ]
    1. the time between one event, process, or period and another

    2. <noun.time>
      meanwhile the socialists are running the government
    [ adv ]
    1. during the intervening time

    2. <adv.all>
      meanwhile I will not think about the problem
      meantime he was attentive to his other interests
      in the meantime the police were notified


    Meantime \Mean"time`\, Meanwhile \Mean"while`\, n.
    The intervening time; as, in the meantime (or mean time).


    Meantime \Mean"time`\, Meanwhile \Mean"while`\, adv.
    In the intervening time; during the interval.

    1. In the meantime, the White House is steaming over House GOP Whip Newt Gingrich's call for tax cuts rather than tax increases.
    2. The package envisions establishing more than the single anti-missile site allowed under the 1972 pact, but delays the decision for at least several years and urges the president to try to renegotiate the pact in the meantime.
    3. The Semiramis was widely regarded as Cairo's safest hotel - it is where US secretaries of state usually stay. In the meantime, the editors of the Egyptian Gazette can only rue yesterday morning's banner headline.
    4. The witnesses said there was little the United States could do to break up the oil cartel and that meantime, the simple laws of supply and demand would govern the price of oil.
    5. In the meantime, a spokesman said the bank couldn't comment on speculation or on the reported Mirror Group holding.
    6. In the meantime, however, TRW _ which built the device _ began preparing for the first ground tests in the laboratory.
    7. Pan Am said it pulled the ads "at the last minute" because "discussions with American are still continuing, and for the meantime the joint frequent-flier program is unchanged."
    8. In the meantime there was another mishap, a small power pulse on Aug. 7 which caused the reactor to be shut down on Aug. 9.
    9. The two campaigns, meantime, also have backing from well-known national corporations.
    10. In the meantime, separating the no-loads from the low-loads and the full-loads isn't always easy.
    11. In the meantime, she told us how to find the Jewish graveyard and the residence of the parish priest. A soft August rain was falling but we decided to walk to the cemetery rather than drive.
    12. The office will be run in the meantime by Crowell's executive assistant.
    13. They showed plenty of skill and have the beef to go the distance. At Oxford, meantime, the selection knives flashed.
    14. In the meantime, Poland's Communist Party has not been able to form a government and President Wojciech Jaruzelski was forced to turn to Solidarity for a prime minister.
    15. In the meantime a $50,000 gift has been sent to allow local officials to purchase needed goods, Ms. Gautier said.
    16. Last night, they appeared to have come to nothing. In the meantime, other companies have been putting together plans for stations to broadcast on La Cinq's frequency.
    17. But the party shows no sign of being prised loose from the present government, at least until after the next general election. In the meantime, an issue which may strain the government is Denmark's relationship with the EU.
    18. "I believe the answer will be in the affirmative," said Dole. "We need to do it." Democratic leaders of the House and Senate, meantime, were meeting with rank-and-file members to gauge their feelings about budget bargaining in an election year.
    19. In the meantime, he said, OPEC members may continue to hint at quota cuts just to keep prices from falling.
    20. In the meantime, borrowing by plastic is actually getting more expensive because provisions of the 1986 tax law are rapidly phasing out deductions for credit-card interest payments.
    21. "You don't want to get caught in a controversy about what they are or aren't doing, and get crucified in the marketplace in the meantime," he added.
    22. In the meantime, a national Corporate Criminal Liability Act, by Rep. John Conyers of Michigan, is due back in the congressional hopper. We trust the Members will exempt themselves from coverage.
    23. In the meantime, Germany should accept self-restraint on subsidised exports of surplus material.
    24. In the meantime, he proposes a complex strategic alliance with Russia, Kazakhstan and Byelorussia under which each republic would have a finger on a nuclear button that couldn't be pushed without agreement from all.
    25. In the meantime, Mr. Smith says, he intends to boost profits through a combination of squeezing costs, restructuring low-return businesses and pushing the retail side of the bank. People who know him say he's particularly suited to that.
    26. In the meantime, the effective devaluation of sterling, as measured by the Bank of England's trade-weighted index, has been less than 6 per cent. That combination is scarcely enough to produce 0.75 percentage points of extra growth in a full year.
    27. But in the meantime, campus activists like 36-year-old Mary F. Reeve say attracting more native students isn't the answer when university figures show the native dropout rate is high.
    28. In the meantime, however, he said monetary authorities are likely to tighten credit further in coming months because of domestic reasons.
    29. Coleman aides, meantime, claimed that 20,000 pieces of campaign mail destined for the 10th congressional District in northern Virginia were not delivered.
    30. In the meantime, more than 400 insurance companies had filed for exemption from rollbacks and the commissioner said three of the state's largest insurance sellers were among hundreds likely to win exemptions.
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