| 词汇 | half-hour |
| 释义 | half hour noun[ C ] uk /ˌhɑːf ˈaʊər/ us /ˌhæf ˈaʊr/(alsohalf an hour) a period of 30 minutes: 半小时，30分钟 The dollar surged against the yen in the final half hour of trading.在交易的最后半小时里美元对日元的汇率猛涨。 Half an hour later, she was smiling and chatting as if nothing had happened.半小时后，她又谈笑风生，仿佛什么事都没发生过。 She is to host a new half-hour show that will be broadcast every weekday evening.她将主持一档新的半小时节目，在工作日晚间播出。 on the/every half hourTrains for Washington depart on the/every half hour (= at 10.30, 11.30, etc.).开往华盛顿的列车每逢半点发出一趟。 Once Mrs Kirkpatrick starts talking to you, you're stuck with her for a good half hour. The train doesn't leave for another half hour yet. Then we had to sit through another half hour of tedious questions. The first half hour of the day is usually spent on correspondence, emails and paperwork. I've spent the last half hour trying to get the baby off to sleep. Specific periods of time all day Anthropocene around-the-clock British Summer Time BST Cretaceous hour hour-long hr Jurassic lunar month nightlong Oligocene Ordovician Palaeocene Palaeogene Precambrian wk year year-long Examples of half hourhalf hour In addition, some of the observers documented additional utterances which they had heard outside of the weekly halfhour. In the day care assessment unit, blood pressure was measured every halfhour for 3 hours by conventional sphygmomanometry. In 1999, participants were paid $10.00 for their time (anywhere from a halfhour to 2 hours per questionnaire). With the halfhour or so remaining in the film, there is ample time for some melodramatic twists and turns. This is unbelievable, but we argued for a full halfhour about a comma. Every halfhour a timer starts the pump, which recirculates the used oil from the bottom to the top reservoir. Temperature was monitored on the soil surface in the pots every halfhour during the study period with a temperature sensor connected to a data-logger (see above). I should not be surprised if some of my colleagues who were hoping to take part in the debate arrived in the next halfhour. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Another halfhour is spent returning to school. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The number of people using the post office in the last halfhour is 32. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I offer him our good wishes and our thanks for what he said during the last halfhour. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He returned to work at 4.30 and simply added the halfhour on to the working day. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I propose to allow a full halfhour of questions on the statement before moving to the next business. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The halfhour reduction does not satisfy me. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Let me give one important factor dealing with the question of the halfhour. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of half hour These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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