争分夺秒
Traditional form:
爭分奪秒
Pinyin (reading):
zhēngfēnduómiǎo
Definitions:
- lit. fight minutes, snatch seconds (idiom); a race against time
- making every second count
Characters:
- 争 - to dispute, to fight, to contend, to strive
- 分 - to divide, to allocate; fraction; small unit of time or other quantity
- 夺 - to rob, to snatch, to take by force
- 秒 - a second; a corn kernel; measure word for time
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