in a flash

基本解释

The career I had worked so hard for was over in a flash.
我为之付出如许辛劳和汗水的事业就在瞬间结束了。
Bring the two together and they annihilate each other in a flash of energy.
把这两种物质放在一起，它们瞬间就会湮灭而化为能量。
Picture a school of fish swimming in one direction, and then in a flash, all the fish change direction. There is no leader giving directions.
想像一下一群鱼朝着一个方向游泳的画面,然后一瞬间,所有的鱼在没有领队给出指示的情况下一起改变了游向.

You'd redistribute in a flash, wouldn't you?
你会马上进行再分配，对吧？
耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选
In the course of backing itself up, there are sort of random events flash to consciousness and get put together in a coherent story.
在备份过程中，有些事件会随机地浮现到意识层面,被拼凑成一个连贯的故事。
耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选
And so this is why in problem set 5 last year when I took photographs on campus with a compact flash card, just standard consumer media and I accidentally formatted that compact flash card, I only lost the first few kilobytes, the first few thousand bits on that compact flash card.
这也是去年的套题5中,我们在校园里面用配有，简易闪存卡的标准摄像机拍照片,我不小心格式化了这个简易闪存卡,其实我只是丢失的最开头的几千个字节的数据。
哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Maybe the concept came to you in a flash, the proverbial bolt out of the blue.
FORBES: You Have THE BIG IDEA, What Do You Do Next?