instance

• n. 实例；情况；建议
• vt. 举...为例

in-,进入，使，靠近，-st,站立，词源同stand,state.其原义为站在附近，紧急待命，后来用于指例子，实例。

1. an occurrence of something;

"it was a case of bad judgment"

"another instance occurred yesterday"

"but there is always the famous example of the Smiths"

2. an item of information that is representative of a type;

"this patient provides a typical example of the syndrome"

"there is an example on page 10"

instance (n.)

mid-14c., "urgency," from Old French instance "eagerness, anxiety, solicitation" (13c.), from Latin instantia "presence, effort intention; earnestness, urgency," literally "a standing near," from instans (see instant). In Scholastic logic, "a fact or example" (early 15c.), from Medieval Latin instantia, used to translate Greek enstasis. This led to use in phrase for instance "as an example" (1650s), and the noun phrase To give (someone) a for instance (1953, American English).

example, instance, case, sample, illustration, specimen

这些名词均有"例子，事例"之意。

example： 普通用词，指能代表同类事物性质或一般规律的典型例子。

instance： 多指用于说明、支持或反证一般事实或理论的事例。

case： 多指需要加以认真研究的实例，如病例，案例等。

sample： 通常指样品。

illustration： 指用来说明、解释某种理论或看法而引用的例证。

specimen可与sample换用，但常指人或物中选出的有代表性部分，或指供科研、化验或检验用的标本。

Veiseh, for instance, travelled a lot in his youth.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

Imagine, for instance, that you lost your bank card.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

Bill, for instance, often gets painful flashbacks, in which unwanted memories intrude into his consciousness, but overall he has chosen to see it as the best way of avoiding repeating the same mistakes.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

Those who were more self-disciplined, for instance, were no more likely to live to be very old.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

They were less likely to report symptoms of depression than those in the other facilities, for instance, and less likely to be bored or lonely.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

In a multi-state study of assisted living , for instance, University of North Carolina researchers found that a host of variables—the facility's type, size or age; whether a chain owned it; how attractive the neighborhood was—had no significant relationship to how the residents fared in terms of illness, mental decline, hospitalizations or mortality.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

In 1972, for instance, the Soviets, recognizing their poor harvest early, quietly cornered the world wheat market.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

For instance, talking about mathematical geniuses who were more or less born that way puts students in a fixed mind-set, but descriptions of great mathematicians who fell in love with math and developed amazing skills produce a growth mind-set.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

For instance, you can move a TV to the kitchen and watch your favorite shows while you're standing at the sink.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

At the most cutting-edge retail stores—Victoria Beckham on Dover Street, for instance—you don't go and stand at any kind of cash register when you decide to pay.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

For instance, Benjamin Franklin used a kite to prove that lightning is electricity.

出自-2015年12月听力原文

Television repairman was a common occupation in the 1950s, for instance.

出自-2014年6月阅读原文

The authors documented an annual drop of as many as 120,000 cases of heart disease, 66,000 instances of stroke and 99,000 heart attacks caused by high blood pressure after a 3-g-per-day reduction in salt.

出自-2013年6月阅读原文

At the most cutting-edge retail stores —Victoria Beckham on Dover Street, for instance—you don't go and stand at any kind of cash register when you decide to pay.

2015年12月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section C

Bill, for instance, often gets painful "flashbacks", in which unwanted memories intrude into his consciousness, but overall he has chosen to see it as the best way of avoiding repeating the same mistakes.

2017年6月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

Carpets, for instance, seem to be slightly better places to drop your food than wood or tile.

2018年12月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

For instance, highway overpasses had to be high enough to allow trailers carrying military missiles to pass under them.

2018年6月四级真题（第二套）听力 Section C

For instance, talking about mathematical geniuses who were more or less born that way puts students in a fixed mindset, but descriptions of great mathematicians who fell in love with math and developed amazing skills produce a growth mind-set.

2016年12月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B

In a multi-state study of assisted living, for instance, University of North Carolina researchers found that a host of variables—the facility's type, size or age; whether achain owned it; how attractive the neighborhood was—had no significant relationship

2016年6月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

Should you tell your friends, for instance, that they 're being recorded while you all watch the big game together?

2018年12月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section C

Take, for instance, the age at which people make commitments such as buying a house, getting married, having children, or starting a career.

2019年6月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

For instance, new technologies that are building upon existing technology have not found their footing well enough to appeal to a mass audience, because, in many cases, they need to work effectively with other devices to realize their full appeal.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, for instance, admits only that the graduation rate for its first-generation pupils is much lower than the percentage of all students who graduate within four years ( ' , 81 percent).

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

So what factors, at the community level, do predict if poor children will move up the economic ladder as adults? What explains, for instance, why the Salt Lake City metro area is one of the 100 largest metropolitan areas most likely to lift the fortunes of the poor and the Atlanta metro area is one of the least likely?Harvard economist Raj Chetty has pointed to economic and racial segregation, community density, the size of a community's middle class, the quality of schools, community religiosity, and family structure, which he calls the single strongest correlate of upward mobility.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

Best Buy, for instance, has been bearing the lion's share of e-waste volume since two of its largest competitors, Amazon and Wal-mart, do not have their own recycling programs.

2019年6月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B

For instance, a research group here at Arizona State University recently claimed their developmental small CubeSats could cost as little as $3, 000 to put in orbit.

2019年6月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

For instance, DeWalt discovered that many contractors were holding on to their old tools, even if they no longer worked, because they were expensive purchases and it was hard to justify bringing them in to recycle.

2019年6月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B

For instance, new technologies that are building upon existing technology have not found their footing well enough to appeal to a mass audience, because, in many cases, they need to work effectively with other devices to realize their full appeal.

2016年12月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B

For instance, the letter A was ant or apple or ax.

2018年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section B

For instance, there's a high energy cost in switching from a regular metabolism to an almost-no-water metabolism.

2018年6月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

For instance, years with a larger increase in online usage were followed by years with lower well-being, rather than the other way around.

2019年12月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

In that instance, you have pizza for lunch.

2016年6月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section A

The University of North Carolina at Chapel hill, for instance, admits only that the graduation rate for its first-generation pupils is "much lower" than the percentage of all students who graduate within four years 81 percent.

2015年12月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

This means, for instance, a CUNY student could reasonably expect to receive the same quality of instruction from a prestigious professor as they would if they were enrolled in the same class at NYU.

2018年6月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

A great decline in young work force is likely to occur in China, for instance.

2017年高考英语江苏卷 任务型阅读 原文

For instance, astronauts lose bone mass.

2015年高考英语湖北卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

For instance, one study followed 238 volunteers in Florida over a year.

2015年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

I enjoyed, for instance, the chapter in which Harold discovers how to think on his own.

2015年高考英语湖北卷 阅读理解 阅读E 原文

In this instance, step away from your keyboard to allow everyone to calm down.

2017年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

In this instance, the best solution is to send a quick, light-hearted apology to explain your awkwardness.

2017年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

Most food webs, for instance, consist of many weak links rather than a few strong ones.

2019年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

Recycling plastics and aluminum, for instance, uses only 5% to 10% as much energy as producing new plastic or smelting aluminum.

2017年高考英语浙江卷（11月） 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

Members of social networks, for instance, are learning that they can hijack media to apply pressure on the businesses that originally created them.

出自-2011年考研阅读原文

But in some cases, one marketer’s owned media become another marketer’s paid media – for instance, when an e-commerce retailer sells ad space on its Web site.

出自-2011年考研阅读原文

You make further inferences, for instance, about how the test may be significant to you, or about its validity—inferences that form the basis of a personal response for which the author will inevitably be far less responsible.

出自-2015年考研阅读原文

The use of privacy law to curb the tech giants in this instance feels slightly maladapted.

出自-2018年考研阅读原文

But in some cases, one marketer's owned media become another marketer's paid media – for instance, when an e-commerce retailer sells ad space on its Web site.

2011年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Every cat with an owner, for instance, is running a small-scale study in operant conditioning.

2009年考研真题（英语一）完形填空 Section Ⅰ

For instance, failure can help you discover how strong a person you are.

2020年考研真题（英语二）翻译 Section Ⅲ

For instance, one of the apps the students are developing suggests movies based on your mood.

2016年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Members of social networks, for instance, are learning that they can hijack media to apply pressure on the businesses that originally created them. 　

2011年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

You begin to infer a context for the text, for instance, by making decisions about what kind of speech event is involved: who is making the utterance, to whom, when and where.

2015年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

The report highlights a number of instances of injustice.

这篇报道重点列举了一些不公正的实例。

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In most instances, there will be no need for further treatment.

多数情况下，不必继续治疗。

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I would normally suggest taking time off work, but in this instance I'm not sure that would do any good.

我通常会建议休假，但就这个情况而言，我不敢保证休假会有什么好处。

牛津词典

What would you do, for instance, if you found a member of staff stealing?

比如说，如果你发现有职员偷东西，你会怎么办？

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In the first instance, notify the police and then contact your insurance company.

首先是报警，然后与你的保险公司联系。

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There are a number of improvements; for instance, both mouse buttons can now be used...

在许多地方有了改进,例如,鼠标的左右键都可以使用了。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

Let your child make some of the small decisions concerning his daily routine. For instance, allow him to choose what clothes he wears at the weekend.

让孩子在日常生活中作一些小决定。比如,让他自己决定周末穿什么衣服。

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She cited an instance where their training had been a marvelous help in dealing with problems.

她举了一个所受训练为解决问题帮了大忙的实例。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

...an investigation into a serious instance of corruption.

对一起严重的腐败事件的调查

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In the first instance your child will be seen by an ear, nose and throat specialist...

你的孩子将首先由耳鼻喉专科医生来诊察。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

The post was for one year in the first instance with possible renewal to a further year.

该岗位初始为一年期,有可能会再续聘一年。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

The rally was organised at the instance of two senior cabinet ministers.

集会是应两位资深内阁大臣的要求组织的。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

AclObjectIdentityAware: Indicates a domain object instance is able to provide AclObjectIdentity information.

表示一个单独的域对象实例的标识.

期刊摘选

Online ad exchanges yet to take hold in China, for instance.

举例而言,互联网广告交易平台在中国还未兴起.

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In 2008, for instance, Intel launched the first commercial server chip wholly developed in design centre.

例如, 2008年英特尔推出了第一款完全在班加罗尔开发的商用服务器芯片.

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This is no isolated instance.

这不是孤立的例子.

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In some instance you can improve the speed of your code by using an isset trick.

在某些情况下,你可以使用isset技巧加速执行你的代码.

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He was good at many activities, for instance, swimming, dancing, and painting.

他擅长很多活动, 比如游泳 、 跳舞 、 绘画等。

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In this paper, the authors introduce the principle and application instance of traversing method.

本文主要介绍了遍历法的原理及其应用实例.

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Major League Baseball, for instance, has 11 players over the age of 40.

以职棒大联盟为例, 它有十一位超过四十岁的球员.

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For instance, a firm who faces a downward sloping demand curve can choose price.

举例来说, 公司面临着向下谁倾斜的需求曲线可以选择价格.

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Migrating instance together with its clone and derivation composes a cooperative group.

迁移实例连同克隆体和派生体构成一个协作群组.

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Take full advantage of existing components, for instance, COM components.

可充分利用已有组件, 比如说COM组件.

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A teacher should be good at drawing inferences about other cases from one instance.

老师要善于举一反三.

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It is not a unique instance , but has its counterpart.

无独有偶.

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You cannot rely on her; for instance, she arrived an hour late for an important meeting yesterday.

她这人靠不住, 例如昨天一个重要会议, 她迟到了一个小时.

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There are jobs more dangerous than truck driving; for instance, training lions.

有的工作比驾驶卡车更危险, 例如驯狮.

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