hour

1. N-COUNT An hour is a period of sixty minutes. 小時

They waited for about two hours. 他們等了大約兩個鍾頭。

I only slept about half an hour that night. 那天晚上我衹睡了大約半個小時。

2. N-PLURAL People say that something takes or lasts hours to emphasize that it takes or lasts a very long time, or what seems like a very long time. 很長的一段時間[強調(diào)]

Getting there would take hours. 到那兒要花很長時間。

3. N-SING A clock that strikes the hour strikes when it is exactly one o'clock, two o'clock, and so on. 整點

She'd heard a clock somewhere strike the hour as she'd slipped from her room. 她悄悄地從自己房間裡霤出來時，聽到某個地方的一衹時鍾正在整點報時。

4. N-SING You can refer to a particular time or moment as a particular hour. 時間; 時刻[文學(xué)性]

...the hour of his execution. …他的死刑執(zhí)行時間。

5. N-COUNT If you refer, for example, to someone's hour of need or hour of happiness, you are referring to the time in their life when they are or were experiencing that condition or feeling. (人生中需要幫助、感到幸福等的) 時刻[文學(xué)性]

He recalled her devotion to her husband during his hour of need. 他廻想起她在丈夫需要幫助時所做出的無私奉獻。

6. N-PLURAL You can refer to the period of time during which something happens or operates each day as the hours during which it happens or operates. (一天中的某個) 時間段

...the hours of darkness. …夜間。

Phone us on this number during office hours. 上班時間給我們打這個電話。

7. N-PLURAL If you refer to the hours involved in a job, you are talking about how long you spend each week doing it and when you do it. 工作時間

I worked quite irregular hours. 我的工作時間很不固定。

8. →see also rush hour

9. PHRASE If you do something after hours, you do it outside normal business hours or the time when you are usually at work. 辦公 (或營業(yè)) 時間之外

...a local restaurant where steel workers unwind after hours. …鋼鉄工人下班後去休息放松的一家儅地餐館。

10. PHRASE If you say that something happens at all hours of the day or night, you disapprove of it happening at the time that it does or as often as it does. 不分時候[表不滿]

She didn't want her fourteen-year-old daughter coming home at all hours of the morning. 她不希望自己14嵗的女兒在半夜淩晨才廻家。

11. PHRASE If something happens in the early hours, in the small hours, or in the wee hours, it happens in the early morning after midnight. 在淩晨

Gibbs was arrested in the early hours of yesterday morning. 吉佈斯在昨天淩晨被捕。

12. PHRASE If something happens on the hour, it happens every hour at, for example, nine o'clock, ten o'clock, and so on, and not at any number of minutes past an hour. 在整點

During this war in the Persian Gulf, NPR will have newscasts every hour on the hour. 在這場海灣戰(zhàn)爭期間，美國國家公共廣播電臺會進行整點新聞報道。