| 词组 | immediately |
| 释义 | immediately ◊ used as an adverb Immediately is usually used as an adverb. If something happens immediately, it happens without delay. I have to go down to Brighton immediately. It's very urgent. She finished her cigarette, then lit another one immediately. If something happens immediately after something else, it happens as soon as the other thing is finished. He had to see a client immediately after lunch. They must have contacted him immediately after my meeting with them last Tuesday. If something is immediately above something else, it is above it and very close to it. You can use immediately in a similar way with other prepositions such as 'under', 'opposite', and 'behind'. ...a window on the second floor immediately above the entrance. The first layer of fat is immediately under the skin. This man had seated himself immediately behind me. ◊ used as a conjunction In British English (but not American English), immediately is also used as a conjunction. You use immediately to say that something happens or is done as soon as something else has happened. Immediately I finish the show I get changed and go home. Contact can be made immediately the door is opened. In sentences like these, you do not use a future tense after immediately. You do not say, for example, 'I will do it immediately I will arrive'. You say 'I will do it immediately I arrive'. |
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