词组
  • in the second place
    as a second consideration or point 第二;第二点
  • second to none
    the best, worst, fastest, etc. 首屈一指,无与伦比
英语四级真题
  • There's part of this sickening horror of knowing you're walking on the edge with this, that I kind of like, knowing that it could all fall apart at any second.
    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • People in both groups used nicotine ( ' , 尼古丁) patches before they quit, in addition to a second form of nicotine replacement, like gum or spray.
    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • Midlife seems like the second big phase of decision-making.
    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • Leah's growth spurred her to open her second studio—and it wasn't for the money.
    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • Honestly, I didn't need to open a second studio.
    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • The second trip was made in October last year.
    出自-2017年6月听力原文
  • Facial photos of dogs and humans were displayed on the screen for 1.5 seconds.
    出自-2017年6月听力原文
  • During the second half of the 20th century, grain prices rose dramatically several times.
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • You may have heard some of the fashion industry horror stories: models eating tissues or cotton balls to hold off hunger, and models collapsing from hunger-induced heart attacks just seconds after they step off the runway.
    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • Surely, the American ideal of second chances should not be reserved only for the rich and powerful.
    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • Rather, it is to recognize that in America's vast criminal justice system, second chances are crucial.
    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • Central heating was present in every upper-and middle-class home by the second half of the 19th century.
    出自-2014年6月阅读原文
  • People were tired of using the iPad textbook besides using it for reading," says Kalpit Shah, who will be going into his second year at Irvine's medical program this fall.
    出自-2013年6月阅读原文
  • in the year to March, the worst slide since the Second World War.
    出自-2013年6月阅读原文
  • The problems with the nation's cuisine can be traced back to the Second World War.
    出自-2011年6月阅读原文
  • The Second World War led to an inadequate supply of food  in Britain
    出自-2011年6月阅读原文
  • Drink: The best way to enjoy the natural world is by yourself; the second best way is in company.
    出自-2010年12月阅读原文
  • They need to extract as much information as possible from the first or second reading.
    出自-2014年6月听力原文
  • Listening to the radio came second.
    出自-2013年12月听力原文
  • The second most popular activity was driving
    出自-2013年12月听力原文
  • Mysteries and detective stories came second on the list at 53%.
    出自-2013年6月听力原文
  • Thus, time and time's relativity are measurable by any hourglass, alarm clock, or an atomic clock that can measure a billionth of a second.
    出自-2011年6月听力原文
  • If the show is a success, we can then look at making a second season for the following year.
    2019年12月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section B
  • In 1810, Careme designed the extraordinary cake for the wedding of Napoleon and his second bride, Marie-Louise of Austria.
    2018年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • In the second experiment meant to pit the mice's hunger against their fear, hungry mice were placed in a cage that had certain "fox-scented" areas and other places that smelled safer but also had food.
    2018年6月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
  • I've got a second interview with that big foreign accountancy firm in the city center.
    2017年6月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section B
  • Just lengthening that second stage of full-time work may secure the financial assets needed for a 100-year life, but such persistent work will inevitably exhaust precious intangible assets such as productive skills, vitality, happiness, and friendship.
    2019年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
  • midlife seems like the second big phase of decision-making.
    2017年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C
  • People in both groups used nicotine patches before they quit, in addition to a second form of nicotine replacement,like gum or spray.
    2017年6月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C
  • The Dutch king has revealed that for more than two decades he has held down a part-time second job alongside his royal duties.
    2018年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section A
  • There is no point saying you run marathons, if you are going to be out of breath arriving at the interview on the second floor.
    2016年6月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
  • While cereal remains a firm favourite among breakfast consumers in the UK and US, a recent investigation into the sugar content of "adult" breakfast cereals found that some cereals contain more than three-quarters of the recommended daily amount of free s
    2019年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
英语六级真题
  • Morgan's comments on outsourcing mark the second time this month that he has come out against one of Haslam's plans for higher education in Tennessee.
    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • Within just the past five years, I have noticed parents returning to a belief that teenagers need the guidance of elders rather than the liberal, anything goes mode of child-rearing that became popular in the second half of the 20th century.
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • This is much like a non-smoker getting cancer from second-hand smoke, while the heavy smoker is fortunate enough to smoke in good health.
    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • South Korea opened its second Antarctic research base in 2014, describing it as a way to test robots developed by Korean researchers for use in extreme conditions.
    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • It is building its second ice-breaking ship and setting up research drilling operations on an ice dome 13,422 feet above sea level that is one of the planet's coldest places.
    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • The second element is passion.
    出自-2016年12月听力原文
  • But by 2014, the death rate from Alzheimer’s Disease for this age group have more than doubled, increasing from 3.8% to 8.5%, making the progressive brain disease the second leading cause of death for centenarians.
    出自-2016年12月听力原文
  • 5 percent of the second group thought so.
    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • It notes that, in recent years, experts have come to the conclusion that undernourishment between conception and a child’s second birthday can have serious and long-lasting impacts.
    出自-2015年12月听力原文
  • The second question is "How can I assess the investment risk of a particular bond issue
    出自-2014年6月阅读原文
  • And with women a second factor comes into play:most seem to enjoy the flexible-time arrangement(once known as the "mommy track")and never find their way back to full-time or high-level employment
    出自-2014年6月阅读原文
  • According to Blau and Kahn,Swedish-style paternal(父亲的)leave policies and flexible time arrangements pose a second threat to woman's progress:they make employers cautious about hiring woman for full-time positions at all.
    出自-2014年6月阅读原文
  • Quite often, educators tell families of children who are learning English as a second language to speak only English, and not their native language, at home.
    出自-2013年12月阅读原文
  • Meanwhile, a second group was directed to solve the same problems by collaborating with one another, without any prompts from their instructor
    出自-2013年12月阅读原文
  • And when the two groups were tested on what they'd learned, the second group "significantly outperformed" the first.
    出自-2013年12月阅读原文
  • In the second paragraph, the author challenges the view that the collapse of rain forests is caused by direct human interference.
    出自-2013年6月阅读原文
  • The second related criticism is that Google's scanning of books is actually illegal.
    出自-2011年12月阅读原文
  • The second rule is don't raise the stakes by challenging her authority.
    出自-2011年6月阅读原文
  • The author's second warning is that we should avoid running a greater risk by challenging our boss's anthority
    出自-2011年6月阅读原文
  • Today, a photo copier can do the work in seconds.
    出自-2014年6月听力原文
  • Question 14: For what were Dennis Hutton and his wife awarded the Nobel Prize a second time?
    出自-2013年12月听力原文
  • We can invent computers capable of processing ten million calculations per second
    出自-2013年12月听力原文
  • But can you spare me a second?
    出自-2013年6月听力原文
  • A recent study shows that meat consumption is one of the main ways that human can damage the environment, second only to the use of motor vehicles
    出自-2013年6月听力原文
  • For a start, all animals, such as cows, pigs and sheep, always gas limed methane, which is the second most common green house gas after carbon dioxide.
    出自-2013年6月听力原文
  • Packing up again with no picnic, Zac had to switch schools for the second time and space is even tighter
    出自-2012年12月听力原文
  • In the second stage, Doctor Bastian separated the dolphins into two tanks.
    出自-2012年6月听力原文
  • How did the second stage of the experiment differ from the first stage
    出自-2012年6月听力原文
  • But the movie that really made him famous was his second one, Rebel Without a Cause, that was about teenagers who felt like they didn't fit into society.
    出自-2010年6月听力原文
  • And in a second analysis, they found that where technology went, dips in well-being followed.
    2019年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
  • Currently, I teach consumer behaviour to undergraduates in their second year, and we look at all kinds of things in consumer behaviour and particularly how consumers are presented in advertising.
    2017年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
  • Every thought that you have affect your body chemistry within a split second.
    2019年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section B
  • If the economy starts to shrink again, Baily says, it would make a strong case for a second stimulus—something the Obama administration hopes will not be necessary.
    2016年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
  • It notes that, in recent years, experts have come to the conclusion that undernourishment between conception and a child's second birthday can have serious and long-lasting impacts.
    2015年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
  • Our second study is about music, for this study researchers play music to babies through speakers located on either side of a human face.
    2019年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
  • Second, they rely on a system that has long been marked by a poor relation between national health and social care services.
    2018年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
  • So, we expect that the second part of the year will not be very good in terms of wage growth.
    2016年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section B
  • Steel's fragility at low temperatures first became a major concern during the Second World War.
    2019年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section A
  • The second less obvious one is that, in fact, innovation is too slow.
    2015年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
  • When all the participants proceeded to the second pair of tasks, the daydreamers performed 40% better than the others.
    2019年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section B
  • When the researchers repeated the laboratory experiment on the second and third nights they found the left hemisphere could not be stimulated in the same way during deep sleep.
    2017年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section A
  • within just the past five years, I have noticed parents returning to a belief that teenagers need the guidance of elders rather than the liberal, "anything goes" mode of child-rearing that became popular in the second half of the 20th century.
    2016年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
  • You have to wait for the speaker to deliver quite a chunk of language before you then put it into the second language, which puts your short-term memory under intense stress.
    2016年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section A
柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义
英汉词典释义
英英词典释义
  • Noun
    1. 1/60 of a minute; the basic unit of time adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites
    2. an indefinitely short time;
    "wait just a moment""it only takes a minute""in just a bit"
    3. the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed near 2nd base
    4. a particular point in time;
    "the moment he arrived the party began"
    5. following the first in an ordering or series;
    "he came in a close second"
    6. a 60th part of a minute of arc;
    "the treasure is 2 minutes and 45 seconds south of here"
    7. the official attendant of a contestant in a duel or boxing match
    8. a speech seconding a motion;
    "do I hear a second?"
    9. the gear that has the second lowest forward gear ratio in the gear box of a motor vehicle;
    "he had to shift down into second to make the hill"
    10. merchandise that has imperfections; usually sold at a reduced price without the brand name
  • Verb
    1. give support or one's approval to;
    "I'll second that motion""I can't back this plan""endorse a new project"
    2. transfer an employee to a different, temporary assignment;
    "The officer was seconded for duty overseas"
  • Adjective
    1. coming next after the first in position in space or time or degree or magnitude
    2. coming next after first;
    "a second chance""the second vice president"
    3. a part or voice or instrument or orchestra section lower in pitch than or subordinate to the first;
    "second flute""the second violins"
    4. having the second highest gear ratio;
    "second gear"
  • Adverb
    1. in the second place;
    "second, we must consider the economy"
行业词典
  • 体育: 辅导员;助手;第二姿势;秒;二垒;
    医学: 秒:时间单位,1秒=1/60分;
    物理学: 二级相变: second-order phase transition;二级相干性: second-order coherence;
    电力: 二阶电路: second-order circuit;
    金融: 汇票的第二份;