minute是什么意思？

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.