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爭分奪秒

zhēngfēnduómiǎo

ㄓㄥ ㄈㄣ ㄉㄨㄛˊ ㄇㄧㄠˇ

Simplified 争分夺秒

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

我們的員工正在爭分奪秒地修理冰暴帶來的損壞。

wǒmen de yuángōng zhèngzài zhēngfēnduómiǎo de xiūlǐ bīng bào dàilái de sǔnhuài

Our employees are working around the clock to fix the damage caused by the ice storm.

Keep 爭分奪秒 and it comes back until you know it.

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