minutes

基本解释

He stalled the police for ten minutes so his accomplice could get away.
他在警察麪前拖延了十分鍾，使他的同謀得以逃走。
He finds it hard to focus his thoughts on one thing for longer than five minutes.
他發現他很難把他的注意力集中在一件事情上超過五分鍾。
I was shut out for being five minutes late.
我就遲到了五分鍾，便被關在了門外。

That was until Ron Artest tied the game with a little more than seven minutes left in the fourth quarter.
We should be going to 55 minutes after the hour, so I have something to share with you.
我們上了一個小時55分鍾了，我有些事要和你們分享。
麻省理工公開課 - 固態化學導論課程節選
Now I want to switch gears, just for the last couple minutes, and ask you: what do you see when you read this novel?
在最後的這幾分鍾，我想換換話題，問問你們：，在看這部小說時,你們讀到了什麽？
耶魯公開課 - 1945年後的美國小說課程節選

The drive from the FORBES office where I was then working was about 12 minutes.
FORBES: Force of Will

A minute is one of the sixty parts that an hour is divided into. People often say "a minute" or "minutes" when they mean a short length of time.
The minutes of a meeting are the written records of the things that are discussed or decided at it.
When someone minutes something that is discussed or decided at a meeting, they make a written record of it.
People often use expressions such as wait a minute or just a minute when they want to stop you doing or saying something.
If you say that something will or may happen at any minute or any minute now, you are emphasizing that it is likely to happen very soon.
A last-minute action is one that is done at the latest time possible.
If you say that something happens the minute something else happens, you are emphasizing that it happens immediately after the other thing.
If you say that something is minute, you mean that it is very small.
precise or detailed