minute
n. 分(钟); 一会儿; 时刻; 会议记录; 备忘录
v. 将…记入会议记录
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。
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。
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。
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!
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。
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。
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。
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。
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。
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。
1. a unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour;
2. an indefinitely short time;
3. a particular point in time;
4. a unit of angular distance equal to a 60th of a degree
5. a short note;
6. distance measured by the time taken to cover it;
1. infinitely or immeasurably small;
2. immeasurably small
3. characterized by painstaking care and detailed examination;
little, small, tiny, minute, miniature
这些形容词均有"小的"之意。
moment, minute, instant
这些名词均含"瞬间,片刻"之意。
any minute (或 at any minute)
随时
at the minute
(英,非正式)目前;此时
by the minute
(尤指变化进程)迅速地,极快地
just (或 wait) a minute
稍等片刻
且慢
the minute (或 the minute that)
一…(就)
not for a minute
根本不,一点也不
this minute (或 this very minute) informal 非正式
立即,马上
(英)刚才,方才
Tremendous forces are imprisoned in the minute particles of matter.
物质微小的粒子中束缚着惊人的力.
They rowed 40 to the minute.
他们每分钟划40桨.
This kind of machine is quite up to the minute.
这种机器是最新式的.
Sixty seconds make a minute.
60秒为1分.
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.