One instant: two solid things meeting hard, and the noise arriving at the same moment as the force. There is no build-up and no warning — the hit and the sound are a single event. Every use of this word is that one instant looked at from a different side. You can say the sound, you can count the event, you can do it to something, or you can put it on news that landed the same way.

一個瞬間:兩個硬東西重重撞在一起,聲音跟力道同時到。沒有醞釀,也沒有預告,撞擊和聲響是同一件事。這個字的每一種用法,都是從不同角度看這同一個瞬間。你可以把那個聲音說出來,可以把那一下當成東西來數,可以自己去做出那一下,也可以拿它來形容「消息像被打了一下」的感覺。

From the word’s history

Onomatopoeic: the letters imitate the sound of an object being slammed against something.

這是擬聲詞,字母本身就在模仿東西被重重甩上去的聲音。所以這個字不必從別的字推來推去:唸出來就是它的意思,之後的名詞、動詞、比喻用法都是從那個聲音長出來的。

Wiktionary, "wham"

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