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sec.ond TIME5sek7[ndn [C](abbreviation sec sek, s) a short unit of time which is equal to a sixtieth of a minute秒There are sixty seconds in a minute and sixty minutes in an hour.一分钟有六十秒，一小时有六十分。She completed the race in 4 minutes 22 seconds.她花了四分二十二秒完成了赛跑。He won the race easily and sliced a tenth of a second off his personal record.他很轻松地赢了这场比赛，而且以1/10 秒刷新了自己的记录。These computers perform complex calculations for things such as weather forecasts by processing millions of instructions per second.这些电脑可以以每秒钟完成几百万个指令的速度完成复杂的计算，比如气象预报。The new system can trace a phone call in a fraction of a second.新的系统可以在几分之一秒的时间内查出来电号码。A second is also a brief period that is not of any particular length.很短的时间He tripped and banged his head against the wall, and seconds later he was dead.他绊了一下，把头撞在墙上，一会儿就死了。"Come on, hurry up!" "I'll just/only be a second--I've got to lock the back door."“快，跟上！”“等一会儿，让我把后门锁上。”"Have you got a second, Paul? I'd like to have a word with you."“你有一点时间吗？保罗，我想和你说句话。”It won't take a second (= It will be very quick) to do and it'll save you a lot of effort in the long run.做这件事你花不了多少时间，但从长远角度来看可以省大力气。A second hand is the small pointer on some clocks that shows how many seconds have past.秒针
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