不到一刻钟，夜晚的寒气就一扫而光。Within quarter of an hour the coldness of the night had gone.一刻钟以后我就得走了.I've got to go in a quarter of an hour.我敢保证, 你准得受一刻钟的罪.You will have a bad quarter of an hour of it, I assure you....

“一刻钟”的英语可以翻译为：quarter，quarter hour，quarter-hour ...