时刻shíkè
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Meanings
1. time (classifier 個|个 ge4 ,段 duan4)
2. juncture
3. moment
4. period of time
5. constantly
6. always
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Our plans fell through at the last minute.
This is a great moment.
It's just an attempt on his part to maximize profits, as much as possible, in the last moments of negotiations.
Even as we stand here tonight, we know there are brave Americans waking up in the deserts of Iraq and the mountains of Afghanistan, to risk their lives for us.
And this year, in this election, she touched her finger to a screen, and cast her vote; because after 106 years in America, through the best of times and the darkest of hours, she knows how America can change.