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《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Some of 'em will pull long faces to me, and say, Poor as you see us, master, we're always grinding, drudging, toiling, every minute we're awake.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He will stay and do his work faithfully as long as he can, and we won't ask for him back a minute sooner than he can be spared.
-- 'She took it out a minute ago, and went off with it to put a ribbon on it, or some such notion,' replied Jo, dancing about the room to take the first stiffness off the new army slip-pers.
-- 'You see I felt ashamed of my present, after reading and talking about being good this morning, so I ran round the corner and changed it the minute I was up, and I'm so glad, for mine is the handsomest now.'
-- They were all unusually hungry, having waited nearly an hour, and for a minute no one spoke, only a minute, for Jo exclaimed impetuously, 'I'm so glad you came before we be-gan!'
-- I can't dance any-more, but as soon as supper is over, watch for Hannah and tell me the minute she comes.'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now, it being Christmas when the ship shot from out her harbor, for a space we had biting Polar weather, though all the time running away from it to the southward; and by every degree and minute of latitude which we sailed, gradually leaving that merciless winter, and all its intolerable weather behind us.
-- I shall not pretend to a minute anatomical description of the various species, or in this place at least to much of any description.
-- That protection could only consist in his own predominating brain and heart and hand, backed by a heedful, closely calculating attention to every minute atmospheric influence which it was possible for his crew to be subjected to.
-- Dough-Boy hurried below, glanced at the watch, and reported the exact minute to Ahab.
-- In obedience to a sign from Ahab, Starbuck was now pulling obliquely across Stubb's bow; and when for a minute or so the two boats were pretty near to each other, Stubb hailed the mate.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A minute ago, the boy had looked the quiet child, mild, dejected creature that harsh treatment had made him.
-- Having rested here, for a minute or so, to collect a good burst of s obs and an imposing show of tears and terror, he knocked loudly at the wicket; and presented such a rueful face to the aged pauper who opened it, that even he, who saw nothing but rueful faces about him at the best of times, started back in astonishment.
-- It wouldn't have loosened the knot, or kept the drop up, a minute longer.
-- There seemed to be some very minute inscription on it; for the Jew laid it flat upon the table, and shading it with his hand, pored over it, long and earnestly.
-- 'Sneaking in and out, so as nobody hears how you come or go!I wish you had been the dog, Fagin, half a minute ago.'
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Elizabeth's eyes were fixed on her with most painful sensations, and she watched her prog-ress through the several stanzas with an impatience which was very ill rewarded at their close; for Mary, on receiving, amongst the thanks of the table, the hint of a hope that she might be prevailed on to favour them again, after the pause of half a minute began another.
-- In comparing her recollection of Pemberley with the minute description which Wickham could give, and in bestowing her tribute of praise on the character of its late possessor, she was delight-ing both him and herself.
-- Their first object was her sister; and she was more grieved than aston-ished to hear, in reply to her minute inquiries, that though Jane always struggled to support her spirits, there were pe-riods of dejection.
-- In this perturbed state of mind, with thoughts that could rest on nothing, she walked on; but it would not do; in half a minute the letter was unfolded again, and collecting herself as well as she could, she again began the mortifying perus-al of all that related to Wickham, and commanded herself so far as to examine the meaning of every sentence.
-- The colour which had been driven from her face, re-turned for half a minute with an additional glow, and a smile of delight added lustre to her eyes, as she thought for that space of time that his affection and wishes must still be unshaken.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I started up in the greatest haste imagin-able; and, in a trice, clapped my ladder to the middle place of the rock, and pulled it after me; and mounting it the second time, got to the top of the hill the very moment that a flash of fire bid me listen for a second gun, which, accordingly, in about half a minute I heard; and by the sound, knew that it was from that part of the sea where I was driven down the current in my boat.
-- I had the presence of mind at that minute to think, that though I could not help them, it might be that they might help me; so I brought to-gether all the dry wood I could get at hand, and making a good handsome pile, I set it on fire upon the hill.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They saw him step into his carriage, and in a minute it was out of sight.
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