【second音标】 英[ˈsekənd] 美[ˈsekənd]
【单词释义】 second是什么意思：
n.秒；瞬间；次货；第二份食物
adj.第二的；次要的；居第二位的；另外的
adv.第二；其次；以第二位
vt.支持；附议；临时调派；赞成提案
[单词分级] 中考英语词汇
[单词复数] seconds [第三人称单数] seconds
[单词现在分词] seconding
[单词过去式] seconded
[单词过去分词] seconded
【second形近词/近似词】
blond adj.金黄色的，浅棕色的，金发的 n.金发女人
vagabond n.流浪者；无业游民 adj.流浪的；流浪者的；漂泊的 v. 到处流浪
respond v. 回答；回复；响应
beyond prep.超过；越过； 在…较远的一边
abscond vt.（尤指逃避逮捕）潜逃，逃跑，逃匿
【近义词解析】
◇ 瞬间，片刻
instant (n. 片刻，刹那)：指极短的时间，如转瞬即逝的刹那间，通常用单数。
moment (n. 片刻)：指很短的一段时间，多用于日常口语。
second (n. 一会儿，片刻)：指极为短暂的一段时间，常可与 moment 换用。
【单词例句】
◇ 'What a strange feeling!'said Alice.'I think I'm getting smaller and smaller every second.'
“感觉真奇怪！”爱丽丝说。“我想每秒钟我都在越变越小。”
---- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1)
◇ These bacteria and other microorganisms grow inside everyone's mouth, and form a claggy biofilm commonly known as dental plaque. It is made up of around 700 different species of bacteria, the second-greatest diversity in the human body after the gut, as well as a host of fungi and viruses.
这些细菌和其他微生物在每个人的口腔内生长，并形成称为牙菌斑的粘稠生物膜。它由大约700种不同的细菌组成，细菌多样性在人类体内仅次于肠道，还有大量的真菌和病毒。
---- How to properly brush your teeth
◇ But Marguerite did not answer him; she was offended that he should call her a woman when she was only a girl; and there is a great difference. He asked her a second time, and then a third; but she remained dumb, and answered not a word.
可是“玛加丽特”不回答他。她很生气，因为她还不过是一个少女，而他却已把她称为“女人”；这究竟有一个分别呀。他问了第二次，第三次。
---- The Butterfly
◇ Just then came a second knock on the door, and a voice cried, "King's daughter, king's daughter, open the door for me. You promised that I could be your companion when you sat in the shade and 1 fetched your ball from the bottom of the fountain."
就在此时，传来第二次敲门声，一个声音叫道：“国王的女儿，为我开门。你坐在树荫下，而我为你从水底取出你的球时，你曾答应我可以做你的朋友的。”
---- The Frog Prince
◇ The one gave her virtue, the second one beauty, the third one wealth, and so on with everything that one could wish for on earth.
女巫师们一个送给她美德，另一个送给她美貌，还有一个送给她富有，她们把世人所希望的，世上所有的优点和期盼都送给了她。
---- Little Brier-Rose
◇ Second, she assesses whether they are deliberately hiding the truth. If she is skeptical about their words, she will look into the case herself.
接着，她对受采访的人是否有故意隐瞒真相作出评估。如果她怀疑他们的话，就会亲自调查案件；
◇ "Does not the stuff appear as beautiful to you, as it did to my lord the minister?" asked the impostors of the Emperor's second ambassador; at the same time making the same gestures as before, and talking of the design and colors which were not there.
“您看这段布美不美？”两个骗子问。他们指着一些美丽的花纹，并且作了一些解释。事实上什么花纹也没有。
◇ Three million people die prematurely each year due to tobacco use that causes cardiovascular diseases such as heart attacks and stroke, the world's leading killers, it said, marking World No Tobacco Day. They include 890,000 deaths through second-hand smoke exposure.
世卫组织在世界无烟日到来之际表示，全球每年有300万人因烟草使用导致的心脏病和中风等心血管疾病过早死亡，其中89万人死于二手烟，这些疾病是头号健康杀手。
---- Tobacco use still a major cause of death
◇ The first task, completed in silence, was completed in an average time of 20 minutes and 59 seconds. However, the second transcription exercise that involved music was completed in an average time of 17 minutes and 42 seconds; a difference of three minutes and 17 seconds, or 15%.
第一项在静默中完成的抄写任务，平均完成时间为20分59秒。而在听音乐时执行的第二个任务平均完成时间为17分42秒，相差3分17秒，即15%。
---- Listening to classical music at work boosts productivity
◇ What drives you crazy more than anything, then, is haste - but unexpected change is a close second. In fact, unlike most of us, you're not particularly fond of surprises, even if they're pleasant ones.
那么，当然不会有什么比急躁更让你发疯的事了。实际上，和大多数人不同，即便是非常令人开心的事也不能给你带来太多惊喜。