| 释义 |
second1/ʹsekənd/ adjdenoting a person or thing having the position in a sequence corresponding to the number two A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting — Helen Rowland next to the first in value, quality, or degree (+ to) inferior; subordinate was second to none standing next below the top in authority or importance second mate alternate; other every second year another; one more drank a second cup resembling or suggesting a prototype a second Napoleon in music, denoting one of two parts for the same instrument or voice, usu lower in pitch or subordinate to the first part the second violins denoting the second forward gear of a motor vehicle at second hand from or through an intermediary heard the news at second hand [Middle English via French from Latin secundus second, following, favourable, from sequi to follow]
second2nounsomebody or something that is next after the first in rank, order, time, position, authority, or precedence a Cub Scout or Brownie Guide second in rank to a sixer a person who aids, supports, or stands in for another, esp the assistant of a duellist or boxer a place next below the first in a contest or examination in Britain, a second-class honours degree the second forward gear of a motor vehicle (usu in pl) a slightly flawed or inferior article, e.g. of merchandise informal (in pl) a second helping of food or second course of a meal in music, an interval of two degrees of a diatonic scale, or the combination of two notes at such an interval a speech seconding a motion
second3adv
second4nouna 60th part of a minute of time or of a minute of angular measure the basic SI unit of time, equal to the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of vibration of a specific radiation of a particular caesium isotope, caesium-133 a moment The bird, meanwhile, had become a fireball … and next second there was nothing but a smouldering pile of ash on the floor — J K Rowling [Middle English secunde from medieval Latin secunda, fem of Latin secundus: see second1; because it is the second sexagesimal division of a unit, as a minute is the first]
second5verb transto give support or encouragement to (somebody) to endorse (a motion or nomination) seconder noun [Latin secundare, from secundus: see second1]
second6/siʹkond/ verb transchiefly Brit to release (a teacher, businessman, military officer, etc) from a regularly assigned position for temporary duty with another organization or at another post secondment noun [French second second position, from second second1] |