The American came from behind to snatch victory by a mere eight seconds.

美国队后来居上，仅以8秒钟的优势赢得了胜利。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

Studies have demonstrated it's possible to predict a moment of insight up to eight seconds before it arrives.

研究表明在灵光乍现的8秒钟前，是有可能预测它的出现的。

youdao

These machines start up fast (eight seconds).

这些机器可以快速启动(只有8秒)。

youdao

In one event, riders try to stay on a wild animal for eight seconds.

VOA: special.2009.02.16

You can ask me where it will be nine seconds from now, eight seconds from now, how fast will it be moving.

你们可以问我九秒后它的位置,或者八秒后,以及它的运动速度

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

And this is a very fast speed, of course, it's about 700 million miles per hour. So, one way to put that in perspective is to think about how long it takes for a light beam to get from earth to the moon. Does anyone have any guesses? Eight seconds, that sounds good.

当然这是一个非常快的速度，它大约是每小时7亿英里,为了更形象化，我们,看看光从地球到月球,需要多少时间，你们猜猜是多少？,8秒，猜的不错。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

It took only eight seconds of power-play time for the Rangers to cash in.

WSJ: Rangers trim series deficit to 2-1 against Caps

The 1, 270-mile leg from Sydney had taken four days, 23 hours, 16 minutes and eight seconds.

BBC: Leg Four: Merit Cup first in Auckland

About eight seconds of that video clip have been shown thousands of times on television.

FORBES: Were the Police at the Occupy Oakland Protest Following Conventional Police Procedures?