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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That day I commenced the journal of these adventures which has enabled me to relate them with more scrupulous exactitude and minute detail.
-- But at this moment the Nautilus, raised by the last waves of the tide, quitted her coral bed exactly at the fortieth minute fixed by the Captain.
-- A minute passed.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And she felt as if she were treading in the air, quite unstable, her heart was contracted, as if at any minute she might be precipitated to the ground.
-- The minute you begin to compare, one man is seen to be far better than another, all the inequality you can imagine is there by nature.
-- And they say that love is the greatest thing; they persist in saying this, the foul liars, and just look at what they do!Look at all the millions of people who repeat every minute that love is the greatest, and charity is the greatest and see what they are doing all the time.
-- In a minute she drew herself together and moved softly, a fleecy brown-grey shadow, a few paces forward.
-- In less than a minute Ursula had thrown off her clothes and had slipped naked into the water, and was swimming out.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Fortunately, the beasts seemed more bent on stretching their paws, and yawning, and flourishing their tails, than devouring me alive; but they would suffer no resurrection, and I was forced to lie till their malignant masters pleased to deliver me: then, hatless and trembling with wrath, I ordered the miscreants to let me out on their peril to keep me one minute longer with several incoherent threats of retaliation that, in their indefinite depth of virulency, smacked of King Lear.
-- The curate might s et as many chapters as he pleased for Catherine to get by heart, and Joseph might thrash Heathcliff till his arm ached; they forgot everything the minute they were together again: at least the minute they had contrived some naughty plan of revenge; and many a time I've cried to myself to watch them growing more reckless daily, and I not daring to speak a syllable, for fear of losing the small power I still retained over the unfriended creatures.
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：
-- So the two brothers went off hand-in-hand into the wood, and returned in a minute with their arms full of things such as bolsters, blankets, hearth-rugs, table-cloths, dish-covers and coal-scuttles.
-- she said at last in a plaintive tone, after she had spent a minute or so in vainly pursuing a large bright thing, that looked sometimes like a doll and sometimes like a work-box, and was always in the shelf next above the one she was looking at.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And that was plainly the last signal of danger, for the buccaneers turned at once and ran, separating in every direction, one seaward along the cove, one slant across the hill, and so on, so that in half a minute not a sign of them remained but Pew.
-- So much I saw, almost in a dream, for I had not yet recovered from my horrid fear of a minute or two before.
-- The plunge of our anchor sent up clouds of birds wheeling and crying over the woods, but in less than a minute they were down again and all was once more silent.
-- All I ask is your word, Cap'n Smollett, to let me safe and sound out of this here stockade, and one minute to get out o' shot before a gun is fired."
-- We're outnumbered, I needn't tell you that, but we fight in shelter; and a minute ago I should have said we fought with discipline.
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