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minute

英 ['mɪnɪt] 美['mɪnɪt]

英英释义同义词辨析词组搭配考试真题实用场景例句

n. 分，分钟；片刻，一会儿；备忘录，笔记；会议记录
vt. 将…记录下来
adj. 微小的，详细的 [maɪˈnjuːt; US -ˈnuːt; maɪˋnut]

考试真题

On top of all that, a new study published in the journal Learning and Memory finds you are probably better off sleeping than making last- minute preparations for a test.

Clock-timers organize their day by blocks of minutes and hours.

Can't we stay here for just a minute? I want to find out what he does with all those legs.

Goldman Sachs, an investment bank, cancelled a conference in Las Vegas at the last minute and rebooked it in San Francisco, which cost more but sounded less fun.

To get maximum benefit from walking, aim for 45 minutes a day, an average of five days a week.

The participants were then asked to write down their thoughts and feelings for four minutes.

Yeah, but that only leaves me 30 minutes to clear customs in getting to the city center and (13) it means I have to check in by 5:30, which means leaving home at about 4:

Tom, would you please watch my suitcase for a minute?

Our train doesn't leave for another twenty minutes.

The woman's watch is twenty minutes fast

The editor is amazed at how quickly Smith gets his stories—only minutes after they happen—but soon he's presented with a contract to sign.

It took the police only a minute to tell him what had happened: his car had been on a private lot.

About a million bottles are bought every minute, not only by thirsty tourists but also by many of the 2.1 billion worldwide who live with unsafe drinking water.

Chris Koch, who teaches "History of Broadcast Journalism" at Montgomery Community College in Rockville, Maryland, points out that reporting is about investigation rather than the memorization of minute details.

For example, we have quartz crystal clocks and watches accurate to within one minute a year.

May I have a minute of your time?

The development of fiber-optic cables allowed for billions of bits of information to be received every minute.

There are people who always wait until the last minute, and make it much harder than it needs to be.

We found that the number of bacteria transferred to either kind of food didn't depend much on how long the food was in contact with the contaminated surface——whether for a few seconds or for a whole minute.

Unilever recently ran an interactive campaign for its Axe deodorant ( ' , 除臭剂), which kept viewers engaged for more than three minutes on average.

These less- stressed workers gained an average of 62 minutes per week of productivity.

We worry most about now because if we don't survive for the next minute, we're not going to be around in ten years' time, says Professor Elke Weber of the Centre for Research on Environmental Decisions at Columbia University in New York.

It would all be innocent enough—20 minutes of busy work—except it comes attached to a personal essay.

Many admissions officers say they spend less than a couple of minutes on each application, including the essay

the man whose horse trots（奔跑）a mile in a minute does not carry the most important messages.

For more than 20 years, therefore, I have been going several times a year-often for no longer than three days-to a Benedictine hermitage（修道院）,40 minutes down the road, as it happens, from the Post Ranch Inn.

Not only does she have a tendency to be moody all the time, but she misses appointments, doesn't follow through on projects, and doesn't seem to plan anything till the last minute.

Yes, he did a really fine job, filling in for Marsha like that at the last minute

He will be back in a minute to repair the computers.

Near the end of the 25 minutes she had set, Delia said she would take two more questions.

M :I left 20 pages here to copy ,here's the receipt W : I'm sorry ,sir ,but we are a little behind ,could you come back in a few minutes

"We worry most about now because if we don't survive for the next minute, we're not going to be around in ten years' time," says Professor Elke Weber of the Centre for Research on Environmental Decisions at Columbia University in New York.

But these waterways seem minute in comparison to the world's two lengthiest rivers—the Nile and the Amazon.

If every distraction took only 1 minute, that would account for 2.5 hours a day.

within their compact bodies these minute satellites are able to house sensors and communications receivers/ transmitters that enable operators to study Earth from space, as well as space around Earth.

An express train was due to go past about thirty minutes later.

Besides, the professor might leave after ten minutes, which would make your trip a total loss.

Another 15 minutes passed and I grew bored.

Approximate travel times: windermere-20 minutes, Kendal-25 minutes, Lancaster-45 minutes, Manchester-1 hour 30 minutes.

As always, you should stretch at least ten minutes before each run to prevent injuries.

As soon as someone spotted the boat, everyone would do last-minute tidying and change into fancy clothes.

Begin keeping track of the time, and try to make dinner last at 30 minutes.

Documentary: a visual presentationsuch as a video,slide show,or computer projectno more than 10 minutes long.

During the first week, do not think about distance, but run five minutes longer each day.

Each interview that you get on the street shouldn't be longer than ten minutes.

Five minutes after he arrived, he had an emergency call and left.

Guests will have to produce at least 10 watt hours of electricity - roughly 15 minutes of cycling for someone of average fitness.

He has a constant urge to check for text messages; he checks his phone every five minutes! He's so addicted to it that he just can't stand the idea that there may be an important text.

He was getting colder by the minute.

I completed the task within 40 minutes.

I expected that one toy would keep his attention for about five minutes, ten minutes, max.

I got here a few days ago, on Saturday...oh, no, wait a minute...sorry, Friday, not Saturday.

I guess I need another minute.

I must have talked for ten minutes.

I need to be in my office in fifteen minutes, or I'll be late for a meeting.

I said I couldn't stand it one minute longer.

I'll be seeing you here again in fifteen minutes.

It takes sunscreen about fifteen minutes to start working, and that's plenty of time for your skin to absorb a day's worth of Vitamin D.

It's become natural to check facts as I write, taking a minute or two to dip into pubmed, wikipedia, or other websites.

It's only a 20-minute drive and the traffic will be good at that time.

Keep in mind that in a fifteen-minute office hour which is how long these things usually last, two or three questions are usually the most you'll have time to discuss.

Minutes after the last movie ended yesterday at the plaza theater, employees were busy sweeping up popcorns and gathering coke cups.

Mom, this is going to take forever! Animal world will be on in 20 minutes.

Oh, there's a nice café about two minutes from here.

Oh, wait a minute! I made a mistake.

Patient as I was, after about 15 minutes, my camera scanning the sun and reviewing the shot I would eventually take, I grew frustrated.

Performance: a dramatic presentation of the topic no more than 10 minutes long.

She still had to run more than half a mile and had only a few minutes left.

She will be here in about twenty minutes.

Six volunteers slid down the cliff with the help of a rope but gave up all hope of finding her alive after a 90-minute search.

Smith asked us to read a story and then write on it, all within 45 minutes.

Still, the people who exercise 150 minutes a week did pretty well, too, lowering their death risk by 14%.

The study showed that people who put in 300 minutes a week of exercise had a 20% lower risk of death due to heart disease.

The transition, which flew at 1, 400 feet for eight minutes last month, can reach around 70 miles per hour on the road and 115 in the air.

They settled in at a comfortable east side cafe and within minutes, another customer was approaching their table.

They're not usually a sign of something serious, but they can last from 30 minutes to 7 days.

To help determine the ingredients of attraction, researchers paired 164 college classmates and had them talk for 3, 6 or 10 minutes so they could get a sense of each other's individuality.

Two of the authors of the review also made a study published in 2014 which/that showed a mere five to 10 minutes a day of running reduced the risk of heart disease and early deaths from all causes.

When I ask him to please put down the phone and stop ignoring me, he says, "In a minute," but still checks to see if someone has posted something new on the Internet.

You have 45 minutes today ― and 45 minutes each day for the rest of the week.

To accurately tell whether someone is sociable, studies show, we need at least a minute, preferably five.