second

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英[ˈsekənd , sɪˈkɒnd]
美[ˈsekənd , sɪˈkɑːnd]

基本释义

det.
第二(的); 另外的
adv.
以第二名/位; 第二,其次
n.
秒; 片刻; 二等货; 二挡; 二级优等学位; 添菜; (拳击或国际象棋锦标赛的)副手
v.
赞成; 附议; 临时调任

词性变化

实用例句

This is the second time it's happened.

这已是第二次了。

牛津词典

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。

牛津词典

the second of June/June 2nd

六月二日

牛津词典

He was the second to arrive.

他是第二个到的。

牛津词典

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。

牛津词典

Osaka is Japan's second-largest city.

大坂是日本的第二大城市。

牛津词典

Birmingham, the UK's second city

伯明翰,英国的第二大城市

牛津词典

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。

牛津词典

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。

牛津词典

They have a second home in Tuscany.

他们在托斯卡纳还有一个家。

牛津词典

She came second in the marathon.

她在马拉松比赛中获得第二名。

牛津词典

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。

真题例句

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.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

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

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

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

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

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

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

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

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

The second trip was made in October last year.

出自-2017年6月听力原文

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

出自-2017年6月听力原文

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

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

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.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

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

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

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

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

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

出自-2014年6月阅读原文

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.

出自-2013年6月阅读原文

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

出自-2013年6月阅读原文

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

出自-2011年6月阅读原文

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

出自-2011年6月阅读原文

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

出自-2010年12月阅读原文

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

出自-2014年6月听力原文

Listening to the radio came second.

出自-2013年12月听力原文

The second most popular activity was driving

出自-2013年12月听力原文

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

出自-2013年6月听力原文

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.

出自-2011年6月听力原文

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

2019年12月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section B

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

2018年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

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.

2018年6月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section C

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

2017年6月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section B

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.

2019年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

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

2017年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C

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

2017年6月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C

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

2018年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section A

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.

2016年6月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section C

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

2019年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B

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.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

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.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

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.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

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.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

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.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

The second element is passion.

出自-2016年12月听力原文

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.

出自-2016年12月听力原文

5 percent of the second group thought so.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

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.

出自-2015年12月听力原文

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

出自-2014年6月阅读原文

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

出自-2014年6月阅读原文

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.

出自-2014年6月阅读原文

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.

出自-2013年12月阅读原文

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

出自-2013年12月阅读原文

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

出自-2013年12月阅读原文

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

出自-2013年6月阅读原文

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

出自-2011年12月阅读原文

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

出自-2011年6月阅读原文

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

出自-2011年6月阅读原文

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

出自-2014年6月听力原文

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

出自-2013年12月听力原文

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

出自-2013年12月听力原文

But can you spare me a second?

出自-2013年6月听力原文

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

出自-2013年6月听力原文

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.

出自-2013年6月听力原文

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

出自-2012年12月听力原文

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

出自-2012年6月听力原文

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

出自-2012年6月听力原文

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.

出自-2010年6月听力原文

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

2019年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

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.

2017年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C

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

2019年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section B

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.

2016年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C

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.

2015年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C

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

2019年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C

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

2018年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C

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

2016年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section B

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

2019年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section A

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

2015年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C

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

2019年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section B

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.

2017年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section A

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.

2016年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

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.

2016年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section A

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.

2017年高考英语天津卷 完形填空 原文

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.

2015年高考英语湖南卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

Collect a second proposal from the participant.

2019年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读A 选项

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.

2018年高考英语全国卷I 完形填空 原文

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.

2016年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 任务型阅读 原文

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

2015年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

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

2015年高考英语陕西卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

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.

2016年高考英语上海卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

It was not a second too early.

2016年高考英语浙江卷(10月) 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

Later, the second group remembered the information better.

2015年高考英语安徽卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

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

2019年高考英语全国卷I 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

My second piece of advice is simple.

2015年高考英语福建卷 短文填词 原文

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

2015年高考英语江苏卷 任务型阅读 原文

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

2015年高考英语全国卷2 听力 原文

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

2017年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

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.

2017年高考英语江苏卷 任务型阅读 原文

Second, take the overall appearance of the neighborhood seriously.

2018年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 七选五 原文

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.

2015年高考英语上海卷 阅读理解 阅读表达 原文

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

2018年高考英语天津卷 完形填空 原文

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

2015年高考英语四川卷 完形填空 原文

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

2015年高考英语广东卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

The second group did not understand the information.

2015年高考英语安徽卷 阅读理解 阅读C 选项

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

2015年高考英语安徽卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

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.

2017年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

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

2019年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

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

2019年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

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

2015年高考英语重庆卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

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.

2019年高考英语全国卷I 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

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

2016年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

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

2019年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

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

出自-2012年考研翻译原文

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.

出自-2012年考研阅读原文

Second, they are mostly bright and well-educated.

出自-2012年考研阅读原文

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

出自-2012年考研阅读原文

Second, novelty itself frequently provokes disbelief.

出自-2012年考研阅读原文

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.

出自-2014年考研翻译原文

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

出自-2014年考研阅读原文

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

出自-2016年考研阅读原文

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.

出自-2016年考研阅读原文

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.

出自-2018年考研阅读原文

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

出自-2018年考研阅读原文

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.

出自-2018年考研阅读原文

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.

2016年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

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.

2020年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

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

2016年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

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

2013年考研真题(英语二)完形填空 Section Ⅰ

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

2018年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

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

2012年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

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.

2010年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

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.

2020年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

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

2018年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

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.

2019年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

英英释义

Noun
  • 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

Verb
  • 1. give support or one's approval to;

    "I'll second that motion"

    "I can't back this plan"

    "endorse a new project"

  • 2. transfer an employee to a different, temporary assignment;

    "The officer was seconded for duty overseas"

Adjective
  • 1. coming next after the first in position in space or time or degree or magnitude

  • 2. coming next after first;

    "a second chance"

    "the second vice president"

  • 3. a part or voice or instrument or orchestra section lower in pitch than or subordinate to the first;

    "second flute"

    "the second violins"

  • 4. having the second highest gear ratio;

    "second gear"

Adverb
  • 1. in the second place;

    "second, we must consider the economy"

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