seconding

英 [ˈsekəndɪŋ , sɪˈkɒndɪŋ]

美 [ˈsekəndɪŋ , sɪˈkɑːndɪŋ]

v.  支持，赞成(主意、建议等); 附议
v.  临时调派; 短期调任
second的现在分词

柯林斯词典

PART OF A MINUTE 秒

• N-COUNT 秒(a second 或 seconds 往往用以表示很短的时间)
  Asecondis one of the sixty parts that a minute is divided into. People often say 'a second' or 'seconds' when they simply mean a very short time.
  1. For a few seconds nobody said anything...
     有几秒钟大家都沉默无语。
  2. It only takes forty seconds...
     只需40秒。
  3. Her orbital speed must be a few hundred meters per second...
     其轨道速度一定是在每秒几百米。
  4. Within seconds the other soldiers began firing too...
     几秒钟内，其他的士兵也开始射击。
  5. Seconds later, firemen reached his door.
     片刻之后，消防队员们赶到他家门口。

COMING AFTER SOMETHING ELSE 第二

• ORD 第二的;第二个的
  Theseconditem in a series is the one that you count as number two.
  1. ...the second day of his visit to Delhi.
     他到访德里的第二天
  2. ...their second child...
     他们的第二个孩子
  3. My son just got married for the second time...
     我的儿子刚刚再婚。
  4. ...the Second World War...
     第二次世界大战
  5. She was the second of nine children.
     她在9个孩子中排行老二。
  6. ...King Charles the Second...
     查理二世
  7. Britain came second in the Prix St Georges Derby.
     英国在圣乔治赛马大奖赛中荣获亚军。
• ORD (用于形容词最高级前)第二…的
  Secondis used before superlative adjectives to indicate that there is only one thing better or larger than the thing you are referring to.
  1. The party is still the second strongest in Italy.
     该党仍是意大利的第二大党。
  2. ...the second-largest city in the United States.
     美国第二大城市
• ADV 第二;其次
  You saysecondwhen you want to make a second point or give a second reason for something.
  1. The soil is depleted first by having crops grown in it and second by natural weathering and bacterial action.
     土壤首先是被种植其中的作物消耗掉，其次受自然风化和细菌活动的侵蚀。
• N-COUNT 二级甲等/乙等优秀学位
  In Britain, anupper secondis a good honours degree and alower secondis an average honours degree.
  1. I then went up to Lancaster University and got an upper second.
     后来，我考上了兰开斯特大学，获得了二级甲等学位。
• N-PLURAL 添菜
  If you haveseconds, you have a second helping of food.
  1. There's seconds if you want them.
     如果需要的话可以添菜。
• N-COUNT 二级品;二等货;次货;等外品
  Secondsare goods that are sold cheaply in shops because they have slight faults.
  1. It's a new shop selling discounted lines and seconds.
     这是家新开的商店，出售打折商品和等外品。
• N-COUNT (拳击或国际象棋锦标赛的)副手，助手
  Thesecondsof someone who is taking part in a boxing match or chess tournament are the people who assist and encourage them.
  1. He shouted to his seconds, 'I did it! I did it!'
     他对助手们喊道：“我赢了！我赢了!”
• VERB 附议，赞同(提案)
  If youseconda proposal in a meeting or debate, you formally express your agreement with it so that it can then be discussed or voted on.
  1. ...Bryan Sutton, who seconded the motion against fox hunting...
     赞同反对猎狐动议的布赖恩·萨顿
  2. Your application must be proposed and seconded by current members.
     你的申请必须由现任成员推荐并得到他们的支持。
• VERB 赞成;持相同观点
  If yousecondwhat someone has said, you say that you agree with them or say the same thing yourself.
  1. The Prime Minister seconded the call for discipline in a speech last week.
     上周首相在一次演讲中对严肃纪律的号召表示支持。
• See also:Most of them had only heard of the massacre at second hand.second-hand
• PHRASE 不比任何事物差;首屈一指
  If you say that something issecond to none, you are emphasizing that it is very good indeed or the best that there is.
  1. Our scientific research is second to none.
     我们的科学研究是顶尖的。
• PHRASE 只比…差;仅次于
  If you say that something issecond only tosomething else, you mean that only that thing is better or greater than it.
  1. As a major health risk hepatitis is second only to tobacco.
     肝炎是仅次于吸烟的主要健康隐患。
• second nature→ see:nature

SENDING SOMEONE TO DO A JOB 调派

• VERB 临时调任;临时调派
  If youare secondedsomewhere, you are sent there temporarily by your employer in order to do special duties.
  1. In 1937 he was seconded to the Royal Canadian Air Force in Ottawa as air armament adviser...
     1937 年他被临时调往渥太华的加拿大皇家空军担任军备顾问。
  2. Several hundred soldiers have been seconded to help farmers.
     数百名士兵被临时派去帮助农民。

双语例句

• This means initiatives such as seconding top managers and engineers from ArcelorMittal to help transfer know-how, for instance on the processes required to make sophisticated automotive steel.
  这意味着支持安塞乐米塔尔的高级经理和工程师帮助传授技术诀窍等举措例如，制造精密汽车钢板程序所需要的技术诀窍。
• International law firms operating in Asia are adopting a variety of methods to help expand and deepen their antitrust practices, including seconding Asian-based staff to offices in leading centres such as Brussels for training.
  在亚洲开展业务的国际律所正采取各种方法，帮助扩展和深化反垄断实务，包括将亚洲地区的员工送到布鲁塞尔等主要业务中心进行培训。
• Almost every bank in the region claims to be advising the Chinese fund on large potential deals, with many seconding staff to CIC to help develop its legal, compliance and management structures.
  几乎在华开展业务的所有投资银行，都宣称为中投提供过大型潜在交易的建议，许多投行还临时调派员工前往中投，协助该公司发展法律、合规与管理结构。
• The enterprise internationalization, help to top various kinds of trade barriers after seconding, join WTO, Protect the foreign export market;
  二是加入WTO后企业国际化，有利于突破各种贸易壁垒，保护国外出口市场；
• The Research and Experiments of Mathematics Teaching Accenting to Different Levels of Students in Gan su Technical Seconding Schools
  甘肃省中专数学分层次教学的研究与实验
• Good Culvtiation of artistic observation is delicate, sequent and primary and seconding; Ability of consciousness is developing and deepening.
  良好的艺术观察能力的培养，是精细的、有顺序的、分清主次的。