a second

基本解释

The sound reflected back in one tenth of a second.
聲音在十分之一秒以後反射廻來。
With a database like this, you can look up anything you want in a second.
有了這樣一個數據庫，你可以在一秒鍾內查詢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，考慮一下我們周圍的許多色彩，形狀和質地，它們就都是這些葉子躰內發生的具躰而獨特的化學反應産物。

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.
學生：聽不見：,我們馬上會試一試，但是答案是斐波那契數列，我們可以定義下最初的兩個數。
麻省理工公開課 - 計算機科學及編程導論課程節選
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，像個公正的決斷人“
耶魯公開課 - 彌爾頓課程節選

Partly because of high gas prices, consumers are taking a second look at hybrid cars.
NPR: Hybrids and the 'Halo Effect' of Car Ads