minute
n. 分(鍾); 一會兒; 時刻; 會議記錄; 備忘錄
v. 將…記入會議記錄
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...
然後比薩餅做出來大約要用20分鐘的時間。
Bye Mum, see you in a minute...
媽媽,一會兒見。
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.
他剛才一直在閱讀上次會議的記錄。
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.
你不必把那一點記入會議記錄。
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,夥計們,這裡有點不對勁。
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...
看上去好像馬上就要下雨了。
He ought to be back any minute...
他應該隨時都會回來。
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...
我壓根不認為她會有所畏懼。
I don't believe him for a minute.
我一點也不相信他。
A last-minute action is one that is done at the latest time possible.
She was doing some last-minute revision for her exams...
她在為考試進行最後的複習。
The location has been changed at the last minute...
在最後一刻改變了地點。
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...
接著我父親突然進來了。
Jobs are there one minute, gone the next.
工作機會稍縱即逝。
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...
你一旦做了這件事,就會失去控制。
The minute that the war started, everybody was glued to the television.
戰事一起,所有人都盯緊了電視報道。
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...
我現在就需要跟她談談。
Anna, stop that. Sit down this minute.
安娜,住手。馬上坐下。
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
這些形容詞均有"小的"之意。
moment, minute, instant
這些名詞均含"瞬間,片刻"之意。
any minute (或 at any minute)
隨時
at the minute
(英,非正式)目前;此時
by the minute
(尤指變化程序)迅速地,極快地
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,一點也不
this minute (或 this very minute) informal 非正式
立即,馬上
(英)剛才,方才
Tremendous forces are imprisoned in the minute particles of matter.
物質微小的粒子中束縛著驚人的力.
They rowed 40 to the minute.
他們每分鐘劃40槳.
This kind of machine is quite up to the minute.
這種機器是最新式的.
Sixty seconds make a minute.
60秒為1分.
Excuse me for a minute — I must pay a call of nature before we leave.
對不起,走之前我得先去一下洗手間.