花几秒钟

arcseconds───弧秒

half-seconds───半秒

leap seconds───闰秒

nanoseconds───纳秒（nanosecond的复数）

take cold───感冒；着凉

take odds───得到让步

take second place───放在第二位；占次要部分

split seconds───一刹那；极快的

take its course───按照正常程序进行

Covers can take seconds to produce - or long, sweated hours.───制作一张封面只需几秒钟—有的时间长些，要耗费几个小时。

ask her if she wants some more or take seconds yourself, but try to stay neutral.───语气问问她是再来点还是等一会儿再吃。

duration of the conversion cannot be timed precisely; it might take seconds or minutes.───转换持续时间无法精确计时；可能为数秒或数分钟。

In general, a request made by an integration interface to a target application is fairly complex and can take seconds to process.───通常，集成接口向目标应用程序发出的请求相当复杂，可能需要数秒进行处理。

The duration of the conversion cannot be timed precisely; it might take seconds or minutes.───转换持续时间无法精确计时；可能为数秒或数分钟。

Just ask her if she wants some more or take seconds yourself, but try to stay neutral.───只是问她是否想要更多或叫她自己拿多一点，但是试图保持中立。

Operations such as these typically take seconds, instead of the minutes or hours they took in previous releases.───类似这样的操作通常只需几秒钟，而不是像未分区时那样需要数分钟或数小时。