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词汇 small-hours
释义 small hours
noun[ plural ]
uk /ˈsmɔːl ˌaʊəz/ us /ˈsmɑːl ˌaʊrz/(alsowee small hours, early hours); (US alsowee hours)
the early hours of the morning, between twelve o'clock at night and the time when the sun rises: 凌晨
She was up until the small hours of the morning trying to finish her essay.为了写完论文,她一直熬夜到凌晨。
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Examples of small hours


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It has every potentially stultifying quality but is genuinely readable, even gripping, keeping one from one's bed in the smallhours, resistant to the delay of note-taking.
During that period we discovered every place in the building where one could "get one" in the smallhours of the morning.
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We were not planning to filibuster it into the smallhours of the morning.
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It is quite unnecessary to sit until the smallhours of the morning like this.
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Those of us who have been here until the smallhours of the morning during the present week have seen enough of it.
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It is only twenty minutes past nine, and quite recently we have been used to sitting up till the smallhours of the morning.
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I am told that we have passed that already in the smallhours of this morning.
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I cannot understand why he wants to press on at such speed in the smallhours.
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We shall not get a result similar to that in the wee smallhours of this morning.
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They may be long and go on into the smallhours, but it is a fascinating subject.
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A problem may become acute in the smallhours of the night.
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He was defeated because, even in the smallhours of the morning, time ran out on that occasion.
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That is the sort of trend that one finds in the smallhours of the morning when, inevitably, the standard of debate must be lower.
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During the day and particularly in the smallhours of the night this is an all-too-frequent occurrence.
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I remember in particular an argument about art and music which took place in the smallhours.
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