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《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In another minute we were outside the gate, and it was locked, and Estella was gone.
-- I forgot myself half a minute ago.
-- In all his ways of sitting and standing, and eating and drinking,--of brooding about in a high-shouldered reluctant style,--of taking out his great horn-handled jackknife and wiping it on his legs and cutting his food,--of lifting light glasses and cups to his lips, as if they were clumsy pannikins,--of chopping a wedge off his bread, and soaking up with it the last fragments of gravy round and round his plate, as if to make the most of an allowance, and then drying his finger-ends on it, and then swallowing it,--in these ways and a thousand other small nameless instances arising every minute in the day, there was Prisoner, Felon, Bondsman, plain as plain could be.
-- Muzzled I have been since that half a minute when I was betrayed into lowness, muzzled I am at the present time, muzzled I ever will be."
-- It was soon done, and the boat was brought round to the Temple stairs, and lay where I could reach her within a minute or two.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Hans was delighted as he sat on the horse, drew him-self up, squared his elbows, turned out his toes, cracked his whip, and rode merrily off, one minute whistling a merry tune, and another singing, 'No care and no sorrow, A fig for the morrow!
-- Suddenly a feeling of fatigue came over him, and unable to resist it, he lay down for a little while, fully de-termined, however, to keep awake; but in another minute his eyes closed of their own accord, and he fell into such a deep sleep, that all the noises in the world would not have awakened him.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I believe it was near a minute before any one knew what was become of me; for I thought it below me to cry out.
-- As I was looking about for a secure landing-place, I saw a sail to the north-north-east, which appearing every minute more visible, I was in some doubt whether I should wait for them or not; but at last my detes-tation of the Yahoo race prevailed: and turning my canoe, I sailed and paddled together to the south, and got into the same creek whence I set out in the morning, choosing rath-er to trust myself among these barbarians, than live with European Yahoos.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Being left to saunter in the hall a minute or two while Mr. Gradgrind went up-stairs for the address, he opened the door of the children's study and looked into that serene floor-clothed apartment, which, notwithstanding its book-cases and its cabinets and its variety of learned and philosophical appliances, had much of the genial aspect of a room devoted to hair-cutting.
-- I shouldn't wish to disturb you at your meals, ma'am, particularly tea, knowing your partiality for it,' said Bitzer, craning a little to look over into the street from where he stood; 'but there's a gentleman been looking up here for a minute or so, ma'am, and he has come across as if he was going to knock.
-- This minute he expects me, for I could release myself of his presence by no other means.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For a minute or two he hesitated, as if unwilling to speak; to speak openly was, perhaps, to unveil his projects.
-- When I looked upwards, however, I could see that the upper orifice was every minute decreasing in size.
-- So natural did it seem, that every minute my imagination induced me to expect a vessel coming out under all sail and making for the open sea under the influence of a warm southerly breeze.
-- Ever since we had taken our departure from the newly named Port Gretchen, my worthy uncle had directed me to keep a regular log of our day's navigation, with instructions to put down even the most minute particulars, every interesting and curious phenomenon, the direction of the wind, our rate of sailing, the distance we went; in a word, every incident of our extraordinary voyage.
-- They had in past ages belonged to those gigantic Glyptodons of the Pliocene period, of which the modern turtle is but a minute specimen.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I'll marry you the minute he divorces you.
-- For a minute or two he was gone.
-- She hated every minute inside the Wragby walls.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I saw her, not a minute before you came up, pass in at that door.'
-- The Department may have either originated, or confirmed, a Minute making that recommendation.'
-- 'I have been expecting him,' said Mrs Plornish, 'this half an hour, at any minute of time.
-- One moment; for she recovered breath in the act of raising a minute corner of her pocket-handkerchief to her eye, as a tribute to the ghost of the departed Mr F., and began again.
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