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minute
[英] [ˈminit] [美] [ˈmɪnɪt] 生词本

n.

vt.

[maiˈnju:t]

adj.

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1. N-COUNT 分;分钟 A minute is one of the sixty parts that an hour is divided into. People often say 'a minute' or 'minutes' when they mean a short length of time. 

  • The pizza will then take about twenty minutes to cook...

    然后比萨饼做出来大约要用20分钟的时间。

  • Bye Mum, see you in a minute...

    妈妈，一会儿见。

  • Half a minute later she came in the front door...

    半分钟之后，她就从前门进来了。

2. N-PLURAL 会议记录 The minutes of a meeting are the written records of the things that are discussed or decided at it. 

  • He'd been reading the minutes of the last meeting.

    他刚才一直在阅读上次会议的记录。

3. VERB 将…记入会议记录 When someone minutes something that is discussed or decided at a meeting, they make a written record of it. 

  • You don't need to minute that.

    你不必把那一点记入会议记录。

4. See also: up-to-the-minute;  
5. CONVENTION 等一下;且慢 People often use expressions such as wait a minute or just a minute when they want to stop you doing or saying something. 

  • Wait a minute, folks, something is wrong here...

    等一下，伙计们，这里有点不对劲。

  • Hey, just a minute!

    嗨，等一下！

6. PHRASE 随时;马上;很快 If you say that something will or may happen at any minute or any minute now, you are emphasizing that it is likely to happen very soon. 

  • It looked as though it might rain at any minute...

    看上去好像马上就要下雨了。

  • He ought to be back any minute...

    他应该随时都会回来。

  • Any minute now, that phone is going to ring.

    那部电话随时可能响。

7. PHRASE 根本不;一点也不 If you say that you do not believe for a minute or for one minute that something is true, you are emphasizing that you do not believe that it is true. 

  • I don't believe for one minute she would have been scared...

    我压根不认为她会有所畏惧。

  • I don't believe him for a minute.

    我一点也不相信他。

8. PHRASE 最后关头; 最后一刻 A last-minute action is one that is done at the latest time possible. 

  • She was doing some last-minute revision for her exams...

    她在为考试进行最后的复习。

  • The location has been changed at the last minute...

    在最后一刻改变了地点。

  • He will probably wait until the last minute.

    他也许会等到最后一刻。

9. PHRASE 下一刻(强调事情发生得很突然) You use the expression the next minute or expressions such as 'one minute he was there, the next he was gone' to emphasize that something happens suddenly. 

  • The next minute my father came in...

    接着我父亲突然进来了。

  • Jobs are there one minute, gone the next.

    工作机会稍纵即逝。

10. PHRASE 一…就… If you say that something happens the minute something else happens, you are emphasizing that it happens immediately after the other thing. 

  • The minute you do this, you'll lose control...

    你一旦做了这件事，就会失去控制。

  • The minute that the war started, everybody was glued to the television.

    战事一起，所有人都盯紧了电视报道。

11. PHRASE 此刻;就在此时 If you say that something must be done this minute, you are emphasizing that it must be done immediately. 

  • I need to speak with her right this minute...

    我现在就需要跟她谈谈。

  • Anna, stop that. Sit down this minute.

    安娜，住手。马上坐下。

Noun

1. a unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour;

  • "he ran a 4 minute mile"
  • synonym： min

2. an indefinitely short time;

  • "wait just a moment"
  • "it only takes a minute"
  • "in just a bit"

3. a particular point in time;

  • "the moment he arrived the party began"

4. a unit of angular distance equal to a 60th of a degree

5. a short note;

  • "the secretary keeps the minutes of the meeting"

6. distance measured by the time taken to cover it;

  • "we live an hour from the airport"
  • "its just 10 minutes away"
Adjective

1. infinitely or immeasurably small;

  • "two minute whiplike threads of protoplasm"
  • "reduced to a microscopic scale"

2. immeasurably small

3. characterized by painstaking care and detailed examination;

  • "a minute inspection of the grounds"
  • "a narrow scrutiny"
  • "an exact and minute report"

体育

  • 1.分钟
  • 2.测时

医学

  • 1.细微的，极小的
1. "Please wait for a minute, "she called down.
“请稍等片刻。”她朝下面叫道。

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2. A minute is the sixtieth part of hour.
一分钟是一小时的六十分之一。

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3. A policeman could meet danger any minute of his working day.
警察在工作日的任何时刻都可能有危险。

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4. A station clocked to broadcast one minute in each hour.
一个车站规定每小时广播一分钟。

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5. ABC charged advertisers 235,000 dollars a minute.
美国广播公司向做广告的人每分钟收取235000美元的巨额广告费。

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6. An explosion will probably occur at any minute.
炸弹随时可能爆炸。

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7. At that very minute, he opened the door.
就在那时候，他打开了门。

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8. At the last minute I decided to go, so I flung a few clothes together and left.
在最后时刻我才决定走，所以我匆忙收拾了些衣服就出发了。

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9. At the next station we'll have a ten-minute stop.
下一站停车10分钟。

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10. Bear with me for a minute, and you'll see what I mean.
请稍耐心些，你马上就会明白我的意思的。

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11. Bernard paid much more for his car than it is really worth—there's one born every minute!
伯纳德付的钱远远超过这辆车的价值，真是太蠢了！

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12. Don't trample mud from your shoes on to the floor; I've just this minute swept it.
不要把你鞋上的泥踩在地板上，我刚刚才扫过地。

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13. Even one minute's lateness would earn a stern rebuke.
哪怕迟到一分钟也将受到严厉的斥责。

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14. Excuse me for a minute—I must pay a call of nature before we leave.
对不起，走之前我得先去一下洗手间。

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15. For more than one minute our foreign guests remained standing still gaping at this wonder of the world -- the Great Wall.
外宾们站着不动约莫有一分多钟之久，张口凝视着这个世界奇迹 --长城。

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16. Get your things ready in good time to avoid a last-minute rush.
要带的东西早点儿收拾好，不要临时张罗。

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17. Give me a minute to square up, and I'll meet you outside the hotel.
请稍等我一会儿，我先把账结了，然后在旅馆外见。

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18. He added to his tally in the last minute.
他在比赛最后一分钟又得了分。

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19. He appears at five o'clock to the minute.
他正好五点钟来。

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20. He changed his plans at the last minute.
他在紧要关头改变了计划。

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