in a clap meaning in Chinese
突然，迅速地，立刻
Examples
- Anger would come upon me in a clap that i must still drag myself in agony and eat the dust like a worm .
一想到我还得在痛苦中拖着身体，蠕虫似的吃着尘土，就马上升起一股怒火。 - I was not a hundred yards from her when the wind came again in a clap ; she filled on the port tack , and was off again , stooping and skimming like a swallow
我距离它不足一百码，风又猛地刮起来。船帆鼓满风向左舷一转又滑行起来，像燕子般掠过水面。 - Tess , between the amazons and the farmer like a bird caught in a clap - net , returned no answer , continuing to pull the straw . she could read character sufficiently well to know by this time that she had nothing to fear from her employer s gallantry ; it was rather the tyranny induced by his mortification at clare s treatment of him
苔丝处在亚马逊印第安女人和农场主中间，就像一只掉进罗网的小鸟一样，没有做声，继续整理她的麦草她已经从农场主身上完全看出来了，她这次用不着害怕她的雇主献殷勤了他只是上次挨了克莱尔的打，现在要在她的身上寻报复就是了。