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minute

/mɪnət/

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variant 1: minutes

1 · noun

a unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour

分钟

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She spends ten minutes each day practicing writing her Chinese name.

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她每天用十分钟练习写自己的中文名字。

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