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second

英 ['sek(ə)nd] 美['sɛkənd]

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n. 秒；第二名；瞬间；二等品
vt. 支持
adj. 第二的；次要的；附加的
num. 第二
adv. 第二；其次；居第二位
n. (Second)人名；(法)塞孔

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词态变化

复数: seconds;第三人称单数: seconds;过去式: seconded;过去分词: seconded;现在分词: seconding;名词: secondment;

中文词源

second 第二的，第二位的，紧随其后的

来自古法语 second,第二的，来自拉丁语 secundus,第二的，从属的，按顺序的，紧跟着的，来自 sequi,跟随，词源同 sequence,consequent.-und,形容词后缀。

second 秒，片刻，瞬间

来自法语 seconde,秒，来自拉丁语 secunda pars minuta,即 second diminished part,第二次缩小的部分。比较 minute,分钟，来自拉丁语 pars minuta prima,即 prime diminished part,第一次缩小的部分。引申词义片刻，瞬间，短暂等。

英英释意

1. 1/60 of a minute; the basic unit of time adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites

2. an indefinitely short time;: "wait just a moment"; "it only takes a minute"; "in just a bit"

3. the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed near 2nd base

4. a particular point in time;: "the moment he arrived the party began"

5. following the first in an ordering or series;: "he came in a close second"

6. a 60th part of a minute of arc;: "the treasure is 2 minutes and 45 seconds south of here"

7. the official attendant of a contestant in a duel or boxing match

8. a speech seconding a motion;: "do I hear a second?"

9. the gear that has the second lowest forward gear ratio in the gear box of a motor vehicle;: "he had to shift down into second to make the hill"

10. merchandise that has imperfections; usually sold at a reduced price without the brand name

英文词源

second: second: [13] Latin secundus originally meant ‘following’ – it was derived from sequī ‘follow’, source of English sequence – and only secondarily came to be used as the ordinal version of ‘two’. English acquired it via Old French second, employing it to take over part of the role of other, which until then had denoted ‘second’ as well as ‘other’.

Its noun use for ‘sixtieth of a minute’, first recorded in English in the 14th century, comes from medieval Latin secunda minuta, literally ‘second minute’ – a minute was a ‘sixtieth part’, and so a ‘second minute’ was a ‘sixtieth of a sixtieth’. Latin secundus was also used for ‘favourable’, and in this sense the verb secundāre was formed from it, meaning ‘favour’.

English acquired it via French seconder as second ‘support’ [16]. (The differently pronounced second ‘transfer to a different job’ [19] comes from the French phrase en second ‘in second rank’.)
=> sect, sequal, sequence, sue, suit
second (adj.): "next after first," c. 1300, from Old French second, secont, and directly from Latin secundus "following, next in time or order," also "secondary, subordinate, inferior," from root of sequi "follow" (see sequel). Replaced native other in this sense because of the ambiguousness of the earlier word. Second sight is from 1610s; an etymologically perverse term, because it means in reality the sight of events before, not after, they occur. Second fiddle first attested 1809:
A metaphor borrowed from a musical performer who plays the second or counter to one who plays the first or the "air." [Bartlett, "Dictionary of Americanisms," 1848]
second (n.1): "one-sixtieth of a minute of degree," also "sixtieth part of a minute of time," late 14c. in geometry, from Old French seconde, from Medieval Latin secunda, short for secunda pars minuta "second diminished part," the result of the second division of the hour by sixty (the first being the "prime minute," now called the minute), from Latin secunda, fem. of secundus (see second (adj.)). The second hand of a clock is attested from 1759.
second (v.): 1580s, "to support or represent in a duel, fight, etc.," from Middle French seconder, from Latin secundare "to assist, make favorable," from secundus "assisting, favorable, following, second" (see second (adj.)). The parliamentary sense is first recorded 1590s. Related: Seconded; seconding.
second (n.2): "assistant, supporter," 1580s, from second (v.).

考试真题

There's part of this sickening horror of knowing you're walking on the edge with this, that I kind of like, knowing that it could all fall apart at any second.

People in both groups used nicotine ( ' , 尼古丁) patches before they quit, in addition to a second form of nicotine replacement, like gum or spray.

Midlife seems like the second big phase of decision-making.

Leah's growth spurred her to open her second studio—and it wasn't for the money.

Honestly, I didn't need to open a second studio.

The second trip was made in October last year.

Facial photos of dogs and humans were displayed on the screen for 1.5 seconds.

During the second half of the 20th century, grain prices rose dramatically several times.

You may have heard some of the fashion industry horror stories: models eating tissues or cotton balls to hold off hunger, and models collapsing from hunger-induced heart attacks just seconds after they step off the runway.

Surely, the American ideal of second chances should not be reserved only for the rich and powerful.

Rather, it is to recognize that in America's vast criminal justice system, second chances are crucial.

Central heating was present in every upper-and middle-class home by the second half of the 19th century.

People were tired of using the iPad textbook besides using it for reading," says Kalpit Shah, who will be going into his second year at Irvine's medical program this fall.

in the year to March, the worst slide since the Second World War.

The problems with the nation's cuisine can be traced back to the Second World War.

The Second World War led to an inadequate supply of food in Britain

Drink: The best way to enjoy the natural world is by yourself; the second best way is in company.

They need to extract as much information as possible from the first or second reading.

Listening to the radio came second.

The second most popular activity was driving

Mysteries and detective stories came second on the list at 53%.

Thus, time and time's relativity are measurable by any hourglass, alarm clock, or an atomic clock that can measure a billionth of a second.

If the show is a success, we can then look at making a second season for the following year.

In 1810, Careme designed the extraordinary cake for the wedding of Napoleon and his second bride, Marie-Louise of Austria.

In the second experiment meant to pit the mice's hunger against their fear, hungry mice were placed in a cage that had certain "fox-scented" areas and other places that smelled safer but also had food.

I've got a second interview with that big foreign accountancy firm in the city center.

Just lengthening that second stage of full-time work may secure the financial assets needed for a 100-year life, but such persistent work will inevitably exhaust precious intangible assets such as productive skills, vitality, happiness, and friendship.

midlife seems like the second big phase of decision-making.

People in both groups used nicotine patches before they quit, in addition to a second form of nicotine replacement,like gum or spray.

The Dutch king has revealed that for more than two decades he has held down a part-time second job alongside his royal duties.

There is no point saying you run marathons, if you are going to be out of breath arriving at the interview on the second floor.

While cereal remains a firm favourite among breakfast consumers in the UK and US, a recent investigation into the sugar content of "adult" breakfast cereals found that some cereals contain more than three-quarters of the recommended daily amount of free s

Morgan's comments on outsourcing mark the second time this month that he has come out against one of Haslam's plans for higher education in Tennessee.

Within just the past five years, I have noticed parents returning to a belief that teenagers need the guidance of elders rather than the liberal, anything goes mode of child-rearing that became popular in the second half of the 20th century.

This is much like a non-smoker getting cancer from second-hand smoke, while the heavy smoker is fortunate enough to smoke in good health.

South Korea opened its second Antarctic research base in 2014, describing it as a way to test robots developed by Korean researchers for use in extreme conditions.

It is building its second ice-breaking ship and setting up research drilling operations on an ice dome 13,422 feet above sea level that is one of the planet's coldest places.

The second element is passion.

But by 2014, the death rate from Alzheimer’s Disease for this age group have more than doubled, increasing from 3.8% to 8.5%, making the progressive brain disease the second leading cause of death for centenarians.

5 percent of the second group thought so.

It notes that, in recent years, experts have come to the conclusion that undernourishment between conception and a child’s second birthday can have serious and long-lasting impacts.

The second question is "How can I assess the investment risk of a particular bond issue

And with women a second factor comes into play:most seem to enjoy the flexible-time arrangement(once known as the "mommy track")and never find their way back to full-time or high-level employment

According to Blau and Kahn,Swedish-style paternal(父亲的)leave policies and flexible time arrangements pose a second threat to woman's progress:they make employers cautious about hiring woman for full-time positions at all.

Quite often, educators tell families of children who are learning English as a second language to speak only English, and not their native language, at home.

Meanwhile, a second group was directed to solve the same problems by collaborating with one another, without any prompts from their instructor

And when the two groups were tested on what they'd learned, the second group "significantly outperformed" the first.

In the second paragraph, the author challenges the view that the collapse of rain forests is caused by direct human interference.

The second related criticism is that Google's scanning of books is actually illegal.

The second rule is don't raise the stakes by challenging her authority.

The author's second warning is that we should avoid running a greater risk by challenging our boss's anthority

Today, a photo copier can do the work in seconds.

Question 14: For what were Dennis Hutton and his wife awarded the Nobel Prize a second time?

We can invent computers capable of processing ten million calculations per second

But can you spare me a second?

A recent study shows that meat consumption is one of the main ways that human can damage the environment, second only to the use of motor vehicles

For a start, all animals, such as cows, pigs and sheep, always gas limed methane, which is the second most common green house gas after carbon dioxide.

Packing up again with no picnic, Zac had to switch schools for the second time and space is even tighter

In the second stage, Doctor Bastian separated the dolphins into two tanks.

How did the second stage of the experiment differ from the first stage

But the movie that really made him famous was his second one, Rebel Without a Cause, that was about teenagers who felt like they didn't fit into society.

And in a second analysis, they found that where technology went, dips in well-being followed.

Currently, I teach consumer behaviour to undergraduates in their second year, and we look at all kinds of things in consumer behaviour and particularly how consumers are presented in advertising.

Every thought that you have affect your body chemistry within a split second.

If the economy starts to shrink again, Baily says, it would make a strong case for a second stimulus—something the Obama administration hopes will not be necessary.

It notes that, in recent years, experts have come to the conclusion that undernourishment between conception and a child's second birthday can have serious and long-lasting impacts.

Our second study is about music, for this study researchers play music to babies through speakers located on either side of a human face.

Second, they rely on a system that has long been marked by a poor relation between national health and social care services.

So, we expect that the second part of the year will not be very good in terms of wage growth.

Steel's fragility at low temperatures first became a major concern during the Second World War.

The second less obvious one is that, in fact, innovation is too slow.

When all the participants proceeded to the second pair of tasks, the daydreamers performed 40% better than the others.

When the researchers repeated the laboratory experiment on the second and third nights they found the left hemisphere could not be stimulated in the same way during deep sleep.

within just the past five years, I have noticed parents returning to a belief that teenagers need the guidance of elders rather than the liberal, "anything goes" mode of child-rearing that became popular in the second half of the 20th century.

You have to wait for the speaker to deliver quite a chunk of language before you then put it into the second language, which puts your short-term memory under intense stress.

A year later, I reached my goal: I lost 150 pounds and raised $50,000! I feel that I've been given a second life to devote to something that is meaningful and enormous.

Building owners were faced with a choice: either change the first floors of their buildings into basements, and the second stories into main floors, or hoist the entire buildings to meet the new street level.

Collect a second proposal from the participant.

During my second year at the city college, I was told that the education department was offering a "free" course, called thinking chess, for three credits.

For example, when I'm writing a textbook, it has become second nature to check a dozen definitions of a key term, which helps me dig into the core and understand its meaning.

For some reason, when certain shows switched into a commercial, a loud noise would sound for a few seconds.

Her owner Mike Holden panicked and celled the coastguard of Cornwall, who turned up in seconds.

In the new trial, which will be launched from April 18, one of three "up" escalators will be standing only, with a second banning walking at peak times.

It was not a second too early.

Later, the second group remembered the information better.

Learning english as a second language can be a painful experience.

My second piece of advice is simple.

News of the second kind, however, pays its rewards later.

Now, in the second picture, you can see how tea is tasted in the tea trade center before it is sold.

Realisation will probably set in seconds after you've clicked "send".

Second, if other factors such as technology remain constant, economic growth and material expectations will fall well below recent standards and this could invite trouble.

Second, take the overall appearance of the neighborhood seriously.

Second, youth-sport programs have long been considered important to youth's psychosocial development, providing opportunities to learn important life skills such as cooperation, discipline, leadership, and self-control.

Six months after suffering our defeat on the spring practice field, we won our first game and our second, and continued to improve.

That second year, the rabbits remembered me, and one would even sit up for slices!

The salesgirl looked at him for a second, then recognized him and said, "Oh, hi!".

The second group did not understand the information.

The second group understood that the computer would not save it.

The second principle is to loosen the control that providers of on-line services have over data and give more to those who supply them.

The teacher may require a second proposal if the first is off-topic or unclear.

There is, however, a second less known type of volcano that doesn't involve mountain building.

They find that customers make decisions in the first few seconds upon walking in the door, and turn it into a business opportunity.

Whaley got the idea of this second-grade presidential campaign project when he asked the children one day to raise their hands if they thought they could never be a president.

Without a second thought, the woman joined the Welty party.

Yellowstone obviously was of this second type, but Christiansen couldn't find the caldera anywhere.

The second, by Joshua Greenberg, takes a more empirical approach to universality identifying traits ( ' , particularly in word order) shared by many language which are considered to represent biases that result from cognitive constraints.

The second half of the 20th century saw a collection of geniuses, warriors, entrepreneurs and visionaries labour to create a fabulous machine that could function as a typewriter and printing press, studio and theatre, paintbrush and gallery, piano and radio, the mail as well as the mail carrier.

Second, they are mostly bright and well-educated.

Second, the majority of people who use networked computers to upload are not even aware of the significance of what they are doing.

Second, novelty itself frequently provokes disbelief.

It is not by chance that the Funeral March is not the last movement of the Eroica Symphony, but the second, so that suffering does not have the last word.

Second, it is surely a good thing that the money and attention come to science rather than go elsewhere.

Second, customers may be willing to buy a company’s products as an indirect way to donate to the good causes it helps.

According to research from Princeton University, people assess your competence, trustworthiness, and likeability in just a tenth of a second, solely based on the way you look.

To the horror of some who expected a Greek Revival twin of the Treasury Building to be erected on the other side of the White House, the elaborate French Second Empire style design by Alfred Mullett was selected, and construction of a building to house all three departments began in June of 1871.

The first step, as Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee argue in The Second MachineAge, should be rethinking education and job training.

Mullett, it was built from 1871 to 1888 to house the growing staffs of the State, War, and Navy Departments, and is considered one of the best examples of French Second Empire architecture in the country.

According to research from Princeton University, people assess your competence, trustworthiness, and like ability in just a tenth of a second, solely based on the way you look.

Job security or stability was the second most important career goal work-life balance was number one, followed by a sense of being dedicated to a cause or to feel good about serving the great good.

Second, customers may be willing to buy a company's products as an indirect way to donate to the good causes it helps.

Second, paper checks have the advantage that they provide receipts, something that many consumers are unwilling to give up.

The first step, as Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew MeAfee argue in The Second Machine Age, should be rethinking education and job training.

The second half of the 20th century saw a collection of geniuses, warriors, entrepreneurs and visionaries labour to create a fabulous machine that could function as a typewriter and printing press, studio and theatre, paintbrush and gallery, piano and rad

There are reports that some military aircraft flew in formation when they were low on fuel during the Second World War, but Dr. lissaman says they are unsubstantiated.

These pauses typically occur at about three per second, and the eyes then jump to another spot, until several important points in the image are registered like a series of snapshots.

To the horror of some who expected a Greek Revival twin of the Treasury Building to be erected on the other side of the White House, the elaborate French Second Empire style design by Alfred Mullett was selected, and construction of a building to house al

When this practice first started decades ago, it was usually limited to freshmen, to give them a second chance to take a class in their first year if they struggled in their transition to college-level courses.

词组搭配

in the second place

as a second consideration or point

第二；第二点

second to none

the best, worst, fastest, etc.

首屈一指，无与伦比

实用场景例句

This is the second time it's happened.: 这已是第二次了。

Italy scored a second goal just after half-time.: 下半场刚刚开始，意大利队便射入第二个球。

the second of June/June 2nd: 六月二日

He was the second to arrive.: 他是第二个到的。

We have one child and are expecting our second in July.: 我们有一个孩子，第二个预期在七月出生。

Osaka is Japan's second-largest city.: 大坂是日本的第二大城市。

Birmingham, the UK's second city: 伯明翰，英国的第二大城市

The spreadsheet application is second only to word processing in terms of popularity.: 就受欢迎程度而言，电子制表软件仅次于文字处理软件。

As a dancer, he is second to none (= nobody is a better dancer than he is) .: 他的舞技不亚于任何人。

They have a second home in Tuscany.: 他们在托斯卡纳还有一个家。

She came second in the marathon.: 她在马拉松比赛中获得第二名。

For a few seconds nobody said anything...: 有几秒钟大家都沉默无语。

It only takes forty seconds...: 只需40秒。

...the second day of his visit to Delhi.: 他到访德里的第二天

...their second child...: 他们的第二个孩子

The party is still the second strongest in Italy.: 该党仍是意大利的第二大党。

...the second-largest city in the United States.: 美国第二大城市

The soil is depleted first by having crops grown in it and second by natural weathering and bacterial action.: 土壤首先是被种植其中的作物消耗掉，其次受自然风化和细菌活动的侵蚀。

I then went up to Lancaster University and got an upper second.: 后来，我考上了兰开斯特大学，获得了二级甲等学位。

There's seconds if you want them.: 如果需要的话可以添菜。

It's a new shop selling discounted lines and seconds.: 这是家新开的商店，出售打折商品和等外品。

He shouted to his seconds, 'I did it! I did it!': 他对助手们喊道：“我赢了！我赢了!”

...Bryan Sutton, who seconded the motion against fox hunting...: 赞同反对猎狐动议的布赖恩·萨顿

Your application must be proposed and seconded by current members.: 你的申请必须由现任成员推荐并得到他们的支持。

The Prime Minister seconded the call for discipline in a speech last week.: 上周首相在一次演讲中对严肃纪律的号召表示支持。

Most of them had only heard of the massacre at second hand.: 他们中的大多数人只是听说了那次大屠杀。

Our scientific research is second to none.: 我们的科学研究是顶尖的。

As a major health risk hepatitis is second only to tobacco.: 肝炎是仅次于吸烟的主要健康隐患。

In 1937 he was seconded to the Royal Canadian Air Force in Ottawa as air armament adviser...: 1937 年他被临时调往渥太华的加拿大皇家空军担任军备顾问。

Several hundred soldiers have been seconded to help farmers.: 数百名士兵被临时派去帮助农民。

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