Hour
[ 'aʊɚ ]
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n. 小时，钟头;时间，时刻;固定时间;课时;
📝 例句
They will arrive at 15:00 hours.
他们将在下午三点抵达。
It never takes more than an hour.
所用的时间从不超过一小时.
at the eleventh hour
在最后时刻；接近截止时间
His hunger increased by the hour.
他的饥饿每时每刻都在增加。
After a delay of one hour, we continued our journey.
耽搁一小时后，我们又继续旅行。
🌱 联想助记
【串】four(四)hour(小时)的tour(旅行)累得他全身sour(发酸)
【记】h-似“椅子”,our-我们的:一小时前我们的椅子被搬走了
✅ 同义词
📖 牛津释义
hour
n
1 [C] twenty-fourth part of a day and night; 60 minutes 小时
The film starts at 7.30 and lasts two hours. 影片7点30分开演, 演两个小时.
work a forty-hour week 每周工作四十小时
a three hours' journey/a three-hour journey 三小时的旅程. =>App 5 见附录5.
2
(a) [C] number of hours past midnight, eg 1 o'clock, 2 o'clock, etc, as indicated by a clock, watch, etc 钟点; 点钟（如一点钟、 两点钟等）
The clock strikes the hours but not the half-hours. 这个钟是正点打点而不是半小时打点.
(b) hours [pl]
(fml 文) (used when calculating time according to the 24-hour clock 用於24小时计时制)
It's eighteen hundred hours, ie 6 pm. 现在是十八点整（下午6点）.
It's twenty-one thirty hours, ie 9.30 pm. 现在是二十一点三十分（晚上9点30分）.
3 hours [pl] fixed period of time for work, use of facilities, etc （工作、 设施等的）固定时间
hours of business 营业时间
Office hours are from 9 am to 5 pm. 办公时间从上午9点到下午5点.
Doctors work long hours. 医生的工作时间很长.
4 [C usu sing 通常作单数]
period of about an hour, usu set aside for a specified purpose 约一小时的时间（通常指作某用途的）
a long lunch hour 很长的午餐时间.
5 [C] distance that can be travelled in an hour 一小时的行程
London's only two hours away. 到伦敦只需两小时.
6 [C] point in time 某一时刻
He came at the agreed hour. 他在约定时间来到了.
Who can be ringing us at this late hour? 谁能在这麽晚的时间给我们打电话呢?
7 [C usu sing 通常作单数]
indefinite period of time 不确定的一段时间
the country's finest hour 乡村中最好的时间
She helped me in my hour of need. 她在我需要的时候帮助了我.
8 (idm 习语) ,after `hours after a period of regular business, etc 下班後
Staff must stay behind after hours to catch up on their work. 下班後工作人员需要留下来把工作赶完. at/till `all hours at/till any time, however unsuitable or inconvenient 在[到]任何时候（不管多麽不适宜或不方便）亦在所不惜
She stays out till all hours, ie very late. 她在外面一直呆到很晚的时候.
He's inclined to telephone at all hours of the day or night. 他不分白天黑夜, 想打电话就打. at the e,leventh `hour at the last possible moment; only just in time 在最後的时刻; 刚刚来得及
The president's visit was called off at the eleventh hour. 总裁的这次访问到时取消了.
[attrib 作定语]
an e,leventh-hour de`cision 犹未为晚的决定. the early hours => early. keep late, early, regular, etc `hours go to bed or work late, early, for a normal and regular period of time, etc 作息时间较正常的或规定的时间等为晚、 为早等. on the `hour at exactly 1 o'clock, 2 o'clock, 3 o'clock, etc 在某一正点
My appointment was for 9 am and I arrived on the hour, ie at 9 am precisely. 我的约会时间定在上午9点, 我到达时9点整.
The London bus departs every hour on the hour. 伦敦的公共汽车每小时零分开出一趟. ,out of `hours
(a) before or after one's regular work time 在工作时间之外.
(b) (esp Brit) during times when alcohol may no longer be sold in bars 在酒吧间不再售酒的时候. the small hours => small. one's waking hours => wake1.
🔁 扩展释义
*[auә]n. 小时, 钟头, 时间, ...点钟, 课时相关词组: at the eleventh hour by the hour hour after hour on the hour serve the hour help in sb's hour of need
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She keeps all of her jewelry and valuables in a safe.
她把所有的首饰和贵重物品都放在保险柜里。
A life without a friend is a life without a sun.
人生在世无朋友，犹如生活无太阳。
We loved it.
太棒了，谢谢你。