on the minute

基本解釋

It is very difficult to write on the minute parts of literature without failing either to please or instruct. (No. 90)
文學要取悅于人或者寓教于人，即使要寫好一小部分也非易事。
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The more we focus on the minute few that don't pay factory farming in such a negative light, the more time is lost to make real change happen.
但當我們把焦點過多地集中在拒絕投資農業(yè)工廠化的少數(shù)負面因素上時，反而浪費了不少時間，沒有能夠及時切實地作出改變。
Although you can effortlessly purchase an item on credit the minute you want it, it's better to wait until you've actually saved up the money.
盡管你一想要一樣東西時就可以毫不費力地透支購買，但是最好還是等到你存夠了錢再買。

On the day after he died, the lights of Broadway theaters darkened for a minute in honor of Arthur Miller.
But we pride ourselves generally on 5 or so minute response times at most hours during the day.
但是我們很光榮的告訴大家大多數(shù)的時間,我們都能在5分鐘左右對大家的問題做出回答。
哈佛公開課 - 計算機科學課程節(jié)選
How do you know something like this doesn't happen every single night, every hour on the hour, ? every minute, every second?
你怎么知道這樣的事,每一晚，每個小時，每分每秒都沒有發(fā)生？
耶魯公開課 - 死亡課程節(jié)選

If there was nothing else to talk about us geeks could spend the rest of our lives on the minute differences in these frameworks.
FORBES: Reinhart and Rogoff; and The Dangers of Tipping Points, Real and Otherwise