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《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After which he was grave for a minute or so.
-- Though his face was towards me, I thought, for some time, thewriting being between us, that he could not see me; but lookingthat way more attentively, it made me uncomfortable to observethat every now and then, his sleepless eyes would come below thewriting, like two red suns, and stealthily stare at me for I dare say awhole minute at a time, during which his pen went, or pretendedto go, as cleverly as ever.
-- All this ran in my head so much, on the first day atDoctor Strong's, that I felt distrustful of my slightest look andgesture; shrunk within myself whensoever I was approached byone of my new schoolfellows; and hurried off, the minute schoolwas over, afraid of committing myself in my response to anyfriendly notice or advance.
-- If any one had told me, then, that all this was a brilliant game,played for the excitement of the moment, for the employment ofhigh spirits, in the thoughtless love of superiority, in a merewasteful careless course of winning what was worthless to him,and next minute thrown away: I say, if any one had told me such alie that night, I wonder in what manner of receiving it myindignation would have found a vent!
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Half a minute brought it all out.
-- Emma was rather in dismay when only half a minute afterwards he be-gan to speak of other things, and in a voice of the greatest alacrity and enjoyment.
-- I dare say, Miss Fairfax, that he either gave his friend very minute directions, or wrote to Broadwood himself.
-- This was the amount of the whole story, of his commu-nication and of Harriet's as soon as she had recovered her senses and speech. He dared not stay longer than to see her well; these several delays left him not another minute to lose; and Emma engaging to give assurance of her safety to Mrs. Goddard, and notice of there being such a set of people in the neighbourhood to Mr. Knightley, he set off, with all the grateful blessings that she could utter for her friend and herself.
-- That's one of the ladies in the Irish car party, not at all like her. Well, I declare ' They walked off, followed in half a minute by Mr. 456 EmmaKnightley.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She might have looked her thanks to Gabriel on a minute scale, but she did not speak them; more probably she felt none, for in gaining her a passage he had lost her her point, and we know how women take a favour of that kind.
-- Closing the slide to windward, he turned to open the other; on second thoughts the farmer considered that he would first sit down leaving both closed for a minute or two, till the temperature of the hut was a little raised.
-- "Come," said Gabriel, freshening again; "think a minute or two.
-- In feeling for each other's palm in the gloom before the money could be passed, a minute incident occurred which told much.
-- "'Twere blush, blush, blush with me every minute of the time, when she was speaking to me."
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The only audience who could appreciate the results of close observation, the careful reproduction of minute detail and local color, are dwellers between the heights of Montrouge and Montmartre, in a vale of crumbling stucco watered by streams of black mud, a vale of sorrows which are real and joys too often hollow; but this audience is so accustomed to terrible sensations, that only some unimaginable and well-neigh impossible woe could produce any lasting impression there.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He entered attentively into all my arguments in favour of my eventual success and into every minute detail of the measures I had taken to secure it.
-- Could the demon who had (I did not for a minute doubt) murdered my brother also in his hellish sport have betrayed the innocent to death and ignominy?
-- I should not have understood the purport of this book had not Felix, in reading it, given very minute explanations.
-- It had been her care which pro-vided me a companion in Clerval and yet a man is blind to a thousand minute circumstances which call forth a wom-an's sedulous attention.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "That's just it, Miss Hetty," said Gerald, "And I won't be keeping you but one minute by the clock.
-- For the past year, she had been so engrossed in her own woes, so bored by any mention of war, she did not knowthat from the minute the fighting first began, Atlanta had been transformed.
-- I wonder if they know they are fighting for a Cause that was lost the minute the first shot was fired, for our Cause isreally our own way of living and that is gone already.
-- And when I went by theEmersons' yard, there she was hiding behind the hedge!Oh, thank Heaven, the Emersons are in Macon!And she said,'Please, Mrs. Wilkes, do speak a minute with me.'
-- Why, right this minute he might be dead and she would not know it until tomorrow, or perhaps a weekfrom tomorrow.
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