词汇 | hour |
释义 | hour noun uk /aʊər/ us /aʊr/ A1[ C ] a period of 60 minutes: 小时 The exam lasted an hour and a half.考试持续了一个半小时。 There are 24 hours in a day.1天有24小时。 How many hours' sleep do you need?你需要睡多少个小时? an hour's/two hour's/etc. timeI'll be back in an hour's/two hours' time (= after one/two hours).我会在一小时/两小时之后回来。 My hometown is an hour from Houston/an hour away (= it takes an hour to travel there).我家乡离休斯顿有一小时的路程。 by the hourHe gets paid by the hour (= gets a particular amount of money for each hour he works).他拿的是按小时计酬的工资。 every hour on the hourTrains leave every hour on the hour (= at exactly one o'clock, two o'clock, etc.).火车每小时整点发车。 past/to the hourBuses leave at ten minutes past/to the hour (= at ten past/to one o'clock, two o'clock, etc.).公共汽车每整点过10分/差10分发一班车。 formalWar was declared at eighteen hundred hours/18.00 hours (= at six o'clock in the evening).宣战时间是晚上6点。 [ Cusually plural ] the period of time when a particular activity happens or when a shop or public building is open: (用于做某事的)时间;(商店或公共场所)开放时间 lunch hourI try to spend my lunch hour walking.我试着把午餐时间用在步行上。 office/working hoursTechnical support is offered during office/working hours only. opening hoursOur opening hours are from 8.00 to 6.00.我们的开放时间是8点到6点。 C2[ C ] a particular time during the day or night: (白天或夜里的)某个时间,某个时刻 unearthly/ungodly hourWho could be calling us at this unearthly/ungodly hour (= so late at night)?谁会在夜里这么晚给我们打电话? the early/small hoursHe returned in the early/small hours (= at night, after midnight).他凌晨才回来。 work long, regular, unsocial, etc. hours used to describe how many hours in the day you work or what part of the day you work: 长时间工作/工作时间规律/在其他人不上班的时间工作(等等) She's a nurse so she often works unsocial hours.她是名护士,所以经常要上早班、值夜班。 for hours (and hours)B1informal for a very long time: 长时间地;很久 I waited for him for hours.我等了他很长时间。 at all hours (of the day and night)C1disapproving repeatedly during the day and the night: 整天不断地;昼夜不停地 They keep calling me at all hours (of the day and night).他们整天不停地给我打电话。 She walks the dog for an hour every afternoon.她每天下午都遛一小时狗。 The trip from York to Newcastle takes about an hour by train.乘火车从约克到纽卡斯尔大约要花1个小时。 We had to queue for three hours to get in.我们排了3个小时队才得以进入。 All the new toys kept the kids occupied for hours.这些新玩具让孩子们兴致勃勃地玩了好几个小时。 As a teacher you could expect to be paid anywhere between £7 and £15 per hour. Specific periods of time all day Anthropocene around-the-clock British Summer Time BST Cretaceous Holocene hour-long hr Jurassic lunar month nightlong Oligocene Ordovician Palaeocene Palaeogene Precambrian wk year year-long You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Days & times of day Points in time Idiomsafter hours hour after hour your hour has come (from) hour to hour in someone's hour of need out of hours until all hours hour | American Dictionaryhour noun[ C ] us/ɑʊər/(abbreviationhr.) a period of 60 minutes: Take this an hour after eating. It’s open 24 hours a day. He works long hours (= starts work early and finishes late). He gets paid by the hour (= for each hour worked). Buses pull out every hour on the hour (= at the time an hour begins). An hour can be a period of time, not necessarily 60 minutes, when you do something: a lunch hour An hour can be the distance you can travel in 60 minutes: San Francisco is only a couple of hours away. Idiomshour after hour hours (and hours) Examples of hourhour The pulse returned after 12 hours of treatment with heparin. Twenty-four hours later, all hemodynamic parameters had returned to the initial values. One hundred and twenty male and female patients aged over 75 years were recruited within 48 hours of admission. Twenty four hours after initial exposure, parasitoids were removed. Two (one hour) lectures a week are used for teaching programming. The data-collection sessions took about 11/2 hours for each student, including the training, think-aloud protocol, and retrospective interview. This suggests that most changes of working hours took place in full-time or in part-time work. The behavior of the labor-market variables also improves, with hours now being substantially less correlated with productivity. Branches from the trees were covered with black permeable plastic bags for 12 hours a day. The procedures used during the two visits were identical, with each session lasting approximately 2 hours. She visits their home and, after an hour or so of closely questioning them, is pretty sure her suspicions are accurate. From the data on number of flowers visited and the number of open flowers we calculated the number of visits per flower per hour. Indicated are the number of visits per flower for each observation hour, with a different symbol for each observation day. We used the mean number of visits per flower for each hour as the variable. Typically, the undergraduates experience only two observation sessions of between two and four hours. See all examples of 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. Collocations withhourhourThese are words often used in combination with hour. Click on a collocation to see more examples of it. daytime hours At such times, temperatures at the centre site frequently exceeded that of ambient air temperature during daytime hours. extra hour We are allowing not only an extrahour, but an extrahour and a half. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 hours of gameplay The battery pack is capable of lasting 13 hours of gameplay before needing to be recharged. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. 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. See all collocations with hour |
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