minute是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 分钟， 片刻； (pl. ) 会议记录a. 微小的，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In half a minute Mrs Cratchit entered flushed, but smiling proudly with the pudding, like a speckled cannon-ball, so hard and firm, blazing in half of half-a-quartern of ignited brandy, and bedight with Christ-mas holly stuck into the top.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When he had stood, for a minute or two, by the side of Defarge, the shoemaker looked up.
-- Both resorted to the drinking-table without stint, but each in a different way; the lion for the most part reclining with his hands in his waist-band, looking at the fire, or occasionally flirting with some 122 A tale of two citieslighter document; the jackal, with knitted brows and intent face, so deep in his task, that his eyes did not even follow the hand he stretched out for his glass which often groped about, for a minute or more, before it found the glass for his lips.
-- Up one minute and down the next; now in spirits and now in de-spondency!'
-- Within a minute afterwards, he was, to all outward appear-ance, as unsubstantial as ever.
-- 'You heard me say why, a minute ago.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The poor horses, tortured almost to death, suffered most from this truly Egyptian plague; the flies alighted upon them in large disgusting swarms; and if the coachman got down and scraped them off, hardly a minute elapsed before they were there again.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Most unpleasant of all was the first minute when, on coming, happy and good-humored, from the theater, with a huge pear in his hand for his wife, he had not found his wife in the drawing-room, to his surprise had not found her in the study either, and saw her at last in her bedroom with the unlucky letter that revealed everything in her hand.
-- "Matvey, my sister Anna Arkadyevna will be here tomorrow," he said, checking for a minute the sleek, plump hand of the barber, cutting a pink path through his long, curly whiskers.
-- She had been on the lookout for her, glancing at her watch every minute, and, as so often happens, let slip just that minute when her visitor arrived, so that she did not hear the bell.
-- Although her dress, her coiffure, and all the preparations for the ball had cost Kitty great trouble and consideration, at this moment she walked into the ballroom in her elaborate tulle dress over a pink slip as easily and simply as though all the rosettes and lace, all the minute details of her attire, had not cost her or her family a moment's attention, as though she had been born in that tulle and lace, with her hair done up high on her head, and a rose and two leaves on the top of it.
-- The overstrained condition which had tormented her before did not only come back, but was intensified, and reached such a pitch that she was afraid every minute that something would snap within her from the excessive tension.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One minute more, and the wager would be won.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had not merely to get through each minute as it came; the whole grim thirty minutes were present at the same time.
-- The minute he begins to see that other folks appreciate and reward your skill, that minute he must begin to feel your power and so to get well.
-- During Martin's minute original research, Gottlieb rejoiced in his willingness to abandon conventional--and convenient--theories of immunology and in the exasperated carefulness with which he checked results.
-- And in a great convention at Waterloo he had helped organize the first regiment in Iowa of the Anti- rum Minute Men.
-- When he had closed the door and let his spirit flow out and fill that minute apartment with his own essence, he felt secure.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But a minute later his face suddenly changed and with a certain assumed slyness and affectation of bra-vado, he glanced at Raskolnikov, laughed and said: 'This morning I went to see Sonia, I went to ask her for a pick-me-up!He-he-he!'
-- A minute later the letter was brought him.
-- Later on, when he recalled that time and all that hap-pened to him during those days, minute by minute, point by point, he was superstitiously impressed by one circum-stance, which, though in itself not very exceptional, always seemed to him afterwards the predestined turning-point of his fate.
-- But why, he was always asking himself, why had such an important, such a decisive and at the same time such an absolutely chance meeting happened in the Hay Market (where he had more-over no reason to go) at the very hour, the very minute of his life when he was just in the very mood and in the very circumstances in which that meeting was able to exert the gravest and most decisive influence on his whole destiny?
-- The iron strip was added to give weight, so that the woman might not guess the first minute that the 'thing' was made of wood.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At this minute I see him turn round in the garden, and give us a last look with his ill-omened black eyes, before the door was shut.
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