a second

基本解釋

The sound reflected back in one tenth of a second.
聲音在十分之一秒以後反射廻來(lái)。
With a database like this, you can look up anything you want in a second.
有了這樣一個(gè)數(shù)據(jù)庫(kù)，你可以在一秒鍾內(nèi)查詢(xún)到任何你想要的東西。
If you pause for a second and think of the many colours, shapes and textures around us, they are all the product of specific and unique chemical reactions that take place within.
如果你停頓一秒鍾，考慮一下我們周?chē)脑S多色彩，形狀和質(zhì)地，它們就都是這些葉子躰內(nèi)發(fā)生的具躰而獨(dú)特的化學(xué)反應(yīng)産物。

Marie Curie became the first person to be awarded a second Nobel Prize in nineteen eleven, this time in chemistry.
STUDENT: Right, we're going to do that in a second, but the answer is Fibonacci numbers, we define the first two.
學(xué)生：聽(tīng)不見(jiàn)：,我們馬上會(huì)試一試，但是答案是斐波那契數(shù)列，我們可以定義下最初的兩個(gè)數(shù)。
麻省理工公開(kāi)課 - 計(jì)算機(jī)科學(xué)及編程導(dǎo)論課程節(jié)選
There's a second figure here standing ab extra, and that's the moon hovering overhead: "while over-head the Moon / sits Arbitress."
這裡有第二個(gè)置身事外的角色，就是高高掛在空中的月亮：,“月亮高掛天心，像個(gè)公正的決斷人“
耶魯公開(kāi)課 - 彌爾頓課程節(jié)選

Partly because of high gas prices, consumers are taking a second look at hybrid cars.
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