on the minute

基本解释

It is very difficult to write on the minute parts of literature without failing either to please or instruct. (No. 90)
文学要取悦于人或者寓教于人，即使要写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.
但当我们把焦点过多地集中在拒绝投资农业工厂化的少数负面因素上时，反而浪费了不少时间，没有能够及时切实地作出改变。
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.
尽管你一想要一样东西时就可以毫不费力地透支购买，但是最好还是等到你存够了钱再买。

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.
但是我们很光荣的告诉大家大多数的时间,我们都能在5分钟左右对大家的问题做出回答。
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How do you know something like this doesn't happen every single night, every hour on the hour, ? every minute, every second?
你怎么知道这样的事,每一晚，每个小时，每分每秒都没有发生？
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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