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：
-- As minute after minute passed by, leaving them in undisturbed security, the insinuating feeling of hope was gradually gaining posses-sion of every bosom, though each one felt reluctant to give utterance to expectations that the next moment might so fearfully destroy.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I reflected for a minute or two.
-- In a little while she went out, but in a minute returned and, passing our table, very politely asked us to buy her something to drink.
-- He looked at me for a minute or two, pulling his untidy beard.
-- "Stay a minute longer.
-- He looked at me for a minute reflectively; he seemed to hesitate; then he said:"Did you know that I had been to see Strickland?"
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- From these holes escaped every minute great birds of clumsy flight, which flew in all directions.
-- A minute later the dry wood crackled and a cheerful flame, assisted by the vigorous blowing of the sailor, sprang up in the midst of the darkness.
-- A minute an age!passed, during which he endeavored to catch the faintest throb of the heart.
-- "One minute past five," replied Gideon Spilett directly.
-- From the extremity of the promontory which formed the tail of the peninsula the coast was rounded for a distance of five miles, which was rapidly passed over, without even the most minute investigations bringing to light the least trace of any old or recent landings; no debris, no mark of an encampment, no cinders of a fire, nor even a footprint!
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I'm in such a state of mind that I hardly know what I write" blot "if you could see me at this minute shedding tears for my past misconduct" pepper-castor "my hand trembles when I think" blot again if that don't produce the effect, it's all over.'
-- Mrs Nubbles ironed away in silence for a minute or two, and coming to the fireplace for another iron, glanced stealthily at Kit while she rubbed it on a board and dusted it with a duster, but said nothing until she had returned to her table again: when, holding the iron at an alarmingly short distance from her cheek, to test its temperature, and looking round with a smile, she observed:'I know what some people would say, Kit ''Nonsense,' interposed Kit with a perfect apprehension of what was to follow.
-- Moreover, he sent an express to the wharf for the tumbling boy, who arriving with all despatch was enjoined to sit himself down in another chair just inside the door, continually to smoke a great pipe which the dwarf had provided for the purpose, and to take it from his lips under any pretence whatever, were it only for one minute at a time, if he dared.
-- He was, for some days, restrained by business from performing any particular pranks, as his time was pretty well occupied between taking, with the assistance of Mr Brass, a minute inventory of all the goods in the place, and going abroad upon his other concerns which happily engaged him for several hours at a time.
-- 'That is the intention, governor,' replied the other, 'and unless I'm much mistaken, Tommy Codlin is a calculating at this minute what we've lost through your coming upon us.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If it is travelling through time fifty times or a hundred times faster than we are, if it gets through a minute while we get through a second, the impression it creates will of course be only one-fiftieth or one-hundredth of what it would make if it were not travelling in time.
-- We sat and stared at the vacant table for a minute or so.
-- A moment before, as it seemed, it had stood at a minute or so past ten; now it was nearly half-past three!
-- I suppose it took her a minute or so to traverse the place, but to me she seemed to shoot across the room like a rocket.
-- The dim suggestion of the laboratory seemed presently to fall away from me, and I saw the sun hopping swiftly across the sky, leaping it every minute, and every minute marking a day.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Queen gasped, and sat down: the rapid journey through the air had quite taken away her breath and for a minute or two she could do nothing but hug the little Lily in silence.
-- She had not been walking a minute before she found herself face to face with the Red Queen, and full in sight of the hill she had been so long aiming at.
-- After this, Alice was silent for a minute or two, pondering.
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