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争分夺秒

zhēng fēn duó miǎo

4-character word Traditional 爭分奪秒

What 争分夺秒 means

1. lit. fight minutes, snatch seconds (idiom); a race against time
2. making every second count

The characters in 争分夺秒

• 争zhēngto strive for; to vie for; to argue or debate
• 分fēnto divide; to separate; to distribute; to allocate; to distinguish (good and bad)
• 夺duóto seize; to take away forcibly; to wrest control of
• 秒miǎosecond (unit of time); arc second (angular measurement unit); (colloquial) instantly

Example sentences

• 我们的员工正在争分夺秒地修理冰暴带来的损坏。
  Our employees are working around the clock to fix the damage caused by the ice storm.