seconds
英 [ˈsekəndz , sɪˈkɒndz]
美 [ˈsekəndz , sɪˈkɑːndz]
n. 秒(时间单位); 片刻; 瞬间; 秒(角度单位)
v. 支持,赞成(主意、建议等); 附议
v. 临时调派; 短期调任
second的第三人称单数和复数
COCA.22004
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.- For a few seconds nobody said anything...
有几秒钟大家都沉默无语。 - It only takes forty seconds...
只需40秒。 - 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。 - Within seconds the other soldiers began firing too...
几秒钟内,其他的士兵也开始射击。 - Seconds later, firemen reached his door.
片刻之后,消防队员们赶到他家门口。
- For a few seconds nobody said anything...
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.- ...the second day of his visit to Delhi.
他到访德里的第二天 - ...their second child...
他们的第二个孩子 - My son just got married for the second time...
我的儿子刚刚再婚。 - ...the Second World War...
第二次世界大战 - She was the second of nine children.
她在9个孩子中排行老二。 - ...King Charles the Second...
查理二世 - 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。
- ...the second day of his visit to Delhi.
- 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.- The party is still the second strongest in Italy.
该党仍是意大利的第二大党。 - ...the second-largest city in the United States.
美国第二大城市
- The party is still the second strongest in Italy.
- ADV 第二;其次
You saysecondwhen you want to make a second point or give a second reason for something.- 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。
- The soil is depleted first by having crops grown in it and second by natural weathering and bacterial action.
- 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.- 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。
- I then went up to Lancaster University and got an upper second.
- N-PLURAL 添菜
If you haveseconds, you have a second helping of food.- There's seconds if you want them.
如果需要的话可以添菜。
- There's seconds if you want them.
- 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.- 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。
- It's a new shop selling discounted lines and seconds.
- 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.- He shouted to his seconds, 'I did it! I did it!'
他对助手们喊道:“我赢了!我赢了!”
- He shouted to his seconds, 'I did it! I did it!'
- 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.- ...Bryan Sutton, who seconded the motion against fox hunting...
赞同反对猎狐动议的布赖恩·萨顿 - 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。
- ...Bryan Sutton, who seconded the motion against fox hunting...
- 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.- 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。
- The Prime Minister seconded the call for discipline in a speech last week.
- 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.- Our scientific research is second to none.
我们的科学研究是顶尖的。
- Our scientific research is second to none.
- 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.- 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。
- As a major health risk hepatitis is second only to tobacco.
- 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.- 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。 - Several hundred soldiers have been seconded to help farmers.
数百名士兵被临时派去帮助农民。
- In 1937 he was seconded to the Royal Canadian Air Force in Ottawa as air armament adviser...
双语例句
- Roger Kingdom set the world record of 12.92 seconds
罗杰·金德姆创造了12.92秒的世界纪录。 - I can verify that it takes about thirty seconds.
我能证明,这大约要用30秒的时间。 - 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。 - He shouted to his seconds, 'I did it! I did it!'
他对助手们喊道:“我赢了!我赢了!” - She recorded a time of two minutes 8.74 seconds.
她以两分8秒74的成绩创了纪录。 - Her emotions had ranged from anger to guilt in the space of a few seconds
几秒钟的时间里,她经历了从愤怒到内疚的情感变化。 - She's already shaved four seconds off the national record for the mile
她已经将一英里赛跑的国家纪录缩短了4秒。 - She was silent for a few seconds.
她沉默了几秒钟。 - Goldsworth stared at me in silence for nearly twenty seconds
将近20秒的时间,戈兹沃思就那么一声不响地盯着我看。 - Within seconds the other soldiers began firing too
几秒钟内,其他的士兵也开始射击。