jiffy
jiffy 英 [ˈdʒɪfi] 美 [ˈdʒɪfi]
n. 一会儿，瞬间
名词复数:jiffies
- A jiffy is a brief amount of time — an instant, or a split second. When you're really tired at the end of a long day, you probably fall asleep in a jiffy after lying in bed.
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- n. 一会儿，瞬间
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1. In UNIX systems, a jiffy is basically the time between two consecutive clock ticks.
在 UNIX 系统中，jiffy 主要表示两个连续时钟计时单元之间的时间。
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2. Instead, bisexuals are thought of as the jiffy Lubes of sexual experience, always ready and available to help you with your fluids at the drop of an un-proofread email.
与之相反的是，双性恋者被认为是这种性经历的“瞬间润滑剂”，他们总是时刻准备着，时刻都有时间来充当你的润滑剂，马上回复你那没打草稿的邮件。
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3. Jump up behind me' he whispered, `and we'll get shot of the screaming cats in a jiffy!'
“跳上来骑在我的后面，”他低声说，“一会儿我们就远远地离开这群瞎叫的猫了。”
- jiffy (n.) 1785, "a moment, an instant, short space of time," colloquial, origin unknown; said to have been thieves' slang for "lightning."
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