be minute

常见例句

Electrons are known to be minute negative charges of electricity.
大家知道，电子是极微小的负电荷。
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A long poll generally keeps the connection open for a long time—usually several seconds, but it could be a minute or longer.
长轮询通常将连接保持一段较长的时间 — 通常是数秒钟，但是也可能是一分钟甚至更长。
The reserve may be minute, because if one bank is running short of money, others must be running long by roughly the same amount and the first bank can borrow it back on the interbank market.
这些准备可能很少，因为如果一家银行缺少流动资金，其他银行必定有大概数量的剩余资金，上述银行可以通过银行同业拆放市场拆借回来。

On Wednesday,BP officials came to the White House for what many people expected would be a twenty minute meeting.
But just to make sure, to stimulate interest, every Tuesday in recitation there'll be a ten minute quiz based upon the content of the homework.
但是只是确认一下，为了激发你们的兴趣，每周二的背诵课,将会有10分钟的测试,内容则是基于你们的作业。
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First of all, it will only be a minute or two at a time, maybe once or twice a lecture.
首先，每次只有一两分钟，一堂课最多不超过两次。
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The techniques used to craft chips mean that such areas can be made minute.
ECONOMIST: Optoelectronics
If someone told you that your most valuable business assets could be stolen in a minute and that it would be almost impossible to catch the thief or even figure out what had been stolen, would you believe it?
FORBES: Can You Keep a Secret? Protecting Your Business's Most Valuable Asset