资料来源 : pyDict
目前,现在,如今
资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Present \Pres"ent\, n. [Cf. F. pr['e]sent. See {Present}, a.]
1. Present time; the time being; time in progress now, or at
the moment contemplated; as, at this present.
Past and present, wound in one. --Tennyson.
2. pl. (Law) Present letters or instrument, as a deed of
conveyance, a lease, letter of attorney, or other writing;
as in the phrase, `` Know all men by these presents,''
that is, by the writing itself, `` per has literas
praesentes; '' -- in this sense, rarely used in the
singular.
3. (Gram.) A present tense, or the form of the verb denoting
the present tense.
{At present}, at the present time; now.
{For the present}, for the tine being; temporarily.
{In present}, at once, without delay. [Obs.] ``With them, in
present, half his kingdom; the rest to follow at his
death.'' --Milton.
资料来源 : WordNet®
at present
adv : at the present moment; "goods now on sale"; "the now-aging
dictator"; "they are now abroad"; "he is busy at
present writing a new novel"; "it could happen any time
now" [syn: {now}]