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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'He said that those five minutes seemed to him to be a most interminable period, an enormous wealth of time; he seemed to be living, in these minutes, so many lives that there was no need as yet to think of that last moment, so that he made several arrangements, dividing up the time into portions one for saying farewell to his companions, two minutes for that; then a couple more for thinking over his own life and career and all about himself; and another minute for a last look around.
-- What an eternity of days, and all mine!How I should grudge and count up ev-ery minute of it, so as to waste not a single instant!'
-- I thought of asking you to draw the face of a criminal, one minute be-fore the fall of the guillotine, while the wretched man is still standing on the scaffold, preparatory to placing his neck on the block.'
-- 'It was just a minute before the execution,' began the prince, readily, carried away by the recollection and evi-dently forgetting everything else in a moment; 'just at the instant when he stepped off the ladder on to the scaffold.
-- The prince gazed at it for a minute or two, then glanced around him, and hurriedly raised the portrait to his lips.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was so uncanny to Henfrey that for a minute they remained staring blankly at one another.
-- You're simply humbugging " "Certainly, sir one minute more.
-- It was a minute or more before they entered the kitchen.
-- It was a pleasant little room, with three windows north, west, and south and bookshelves covered with books and scientific publications, and a broad writing-table, and, under the north window, a microscope, glass slips, minute instruments, some cultures, and scattered bottles of reagents.
-- For a minute perhaps he sat, pen in mouth, admiring the rich golden colour above the crest, and then his attention was attracted by the little figure of a man, inky black, running over the hill-brow towards him.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For a minute we stared at each other without speaking.
-- In a minute or so the trees grew thinner, and I emerged upon a bare, low headland running out into the sombre water.
-- His eyes, which had seemed animated a minute be-fore, went dull.
-- The little pink sloth-creature dashed at me, and I gashed down its ugly face with the nail in my stick and in another minute was scrambling up a steep side pathway, a kind of sloping chim-ney, out of the ravine.
-- Once or twice ' He was silent, for a minute perhaps.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The punishment is death where the murderer can be found; and if you think for a minute you will see that this must be so.
-- The Python dropped his head lightly for a minute on Mowgli's shoulder.
-- Here we sit in a branchy row, Thinking of beautiful things we know; Dreaming of deeds that we mean to do, All complete, in a minute or two Something noble and wise and good, Done by merely wishing we could.
-- So he looked up at the sky for a minute and said solemnly: 'What the jun-gle has taken the jungle has restored.
-- He lay as still as still, ex-pecting every minute to see Mowgli turn into a tiger too.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A silence of a minute succeeded, during which the In-dian sat mute; then, full of the dignity of his office, he commenced his brief tale, with a solemnity that served to heighten its appearance of truth.
-- Thence he went to the side of the motherly animal, and spending a minute in a fruitless inquiry into the character of her rider, he shook his head and returned to Heyward.
-- In another minute the whole party was collected in this spot of comparative safe-ty.
-- For near a minute they stood looking one another in the eye, and gradually exerting the power of their muscles for the mastery.
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