hour

hour　英 [ˈaʊə(r)] 　美 [aʊr]

n. 小时；钟头　

名词复数:hours　

He'll be back in an hour.　他一小时后回来。

a hospital's visiting hours　医院的探视时间

An hour is a unit of time — it's sixty minutes, 3,600 seconds, or the length it takes the long hand on your watch to move in a full circle.

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n. 小时；钟头

1. He'll be back in an hour.

他一小时后回来。
2. a hospital's visiting hours

医院的探视时间
3. It took hours getting there.

花了好长时间才到达那里。
4. It will take about an hour to get there.

到那里大约需要一小时。
5. The interview lasted half an hour.

会见持续了半小时。
6. It was a three-hour exam.

那是三小时的考试。
7. Opening hoursare from 10 to 6 each day.

开放时间为每天 10 点到 6 点。

hour (n.) c. 1200, "divine office prescribed for each of the seven canonical hours; the daily service at the canonical hours;" c. 1300, "time of day appointed for prayer, one of the seven canonical hours," from Old French ore, hore "canonical hour; one-twelfth of a day" (sunrise to sunset), from Latin hora "an hour;" poetically "time of year, season," from Greek hora a word used to indicate any limited time within a year, month, or day, from PIE *yor-a-, from root *yer- "year, season" (see year).

hour ★ / ˈaʊə(r) ; NAmE ˈaʊər / noun HELP Use an,not a,before hour. *hour 之前用 an，不用 a。 1 ★ [countable ] ( abbr.hr , hr. ) 60 minutes; one of the 24 parts that a day is divided into 小时 ◆ It will take about an hour to get there. 到那里大约需要一小时。 ◆ The interview lasted half an hour. 会见持续了半小时。 ◆ It was a three-hour exam. 那是三小时的考试。 ◆ I waited for an hourand then I left. 我等了一个小时，然后就走了。 ◆ He'll be back in an hour. 他一小时后回来。 ◆ We're paid by the hour. 我们是论小时获得报酬的。 ◆ The minimum wage was set at £5.80 an hour. 最低工资定为每小时 5.80 英镑。 ◆ Top speed is 120 miles per hour. 最高时速为 120 英里。 ◆ York was within an hour's drive. 开车到约克不会超过一小时。 ◆ Chicago is two hours away (= it takes two hours to get there). 到芝加哥需要两小时。 ◆ We're four hours ahead of New York (= referring to the time difference). 我们比纽约早四个小时。 ◆ We hope to be there within the hour (= in less than an hour). 我们希望一小时内到达那里。 2 ★ [countable , usually singular ] a period of about an hour, used for a particular purpose 约一小时的时间 ◆ I use the Internet at work, during my lunch hour. 我上班时在午餐时间使用互联网。 ☞see also happy hour , rush hour 3 ★ hours [plural ] a fixed period of time during which people work, an office is open, etc. （工作、办公等的）固定时间 ◆ Opening hoursare from 10 to 6 each day. 开放时间为每天 10 点到 6 点。 ◆ Most people in this kind of job tend to work long hours. 很多从事这种工作的人往往工作时间很长。 ◆ What are your office hours? 你的办公时间是几点到几点？ ◆ a hospital's visiting hours 医院的探视时间 ◆ Britain's licensing hours (= when pubs are allowed to open)used to be very restricted. 英国的酒吧营业时间从前受到很严格的限制。 ◆ This is the only place to get a drink after hours (= after the normal closing time for pubs). 这是酒吧正常关门时间之后唯一能喝一杯的地方。 ◆ Clients can now contact us by email out of hours (= when the office is closed). 现在于办公时间以外顾客可以用电邮和我们联系。 4 ★ hours [plural ] a long time 长时间 ◆ It took hours getting there. 花了好长时间才到达那里。 ◆ I've been waiting for hours. 我等了很久了。 ◆ ‘How long did it last?’ ‘Oh, hours and hours.’ “持续了多久？”“噢，很久很久。” 5 [singular ] a particular point in time 某个时间 ◆ You can't turn him away at this hour of the night. 天这么晚了，你不能把他赶走。 6 [countable , usually singular ] the time when sth important happens 重要时刻 ◆ This was often thought of as the country's finest hour. 一般认为这是该国家最美好的一段时光。 ◆ She thought her last hourhad come. 她以为她生命的最后时刻到了。 ◆ Don't desert me in my hour of need. 不要在我困难的时候离开我。 7 the hour [singular ] the time when it is exactly 1 o'clock, 2 o'clock, etc. 整点 ◆ There's a bus every hour on the hour. 每小时整点有一班公共汽车。 ◆ The clock struck the hour. 钟敲过整点了。 8 hours [plural ] used when giving the time according to the 24-hour clock, usually in military or other official language （按 24 小时制给出的时间，通常用于军事或其他官方用语）点钟 ◆ The first missile was launched at 2300 hours (= at 11 p.m.). 首枚导弹是在 23 点（晚上 11 点）发射的。 HELP This is pronounced ‘23 hundred hours’. 这要读作 23 hundred hours。 IDIOMS ˈall hours any time, especially a time which is not usual or suitable 任何时间（尤指非正常或不合适的时间） ◆ He's started staying out till all hours (= until very late at night). 他已经开始在外面待得很晚了。 ◆ She thinks she can call me at all hours of the day and night. 她以为她可以不分昼夜随时给我打电话。 keep… ˈhours if you keep regular, strange, etc. hours,the times at which you do things (especially getting up or going to bed) are regular, strange, etc. 做事（尤指作息）时间有规律（或怪异等） the ˈsmall/ˈearly hours ( also the wee small ˈhours ScotE, NAmE also the wee ˈhours ) the period of time very early in the morning, soon after midnight 午夜刚过的一段时间；凌晨时分 ◆ We worked well into the small hours. 我们一直工作到了午夜之后。 ◆ The fighting began in the early hours of Saturday morning. 战斗在星期六凌晨打响了。 ☞more at eleventh at eleven , evil adj. , kill v. , unearthly , ungodly hour hours hour / ˈaʊə(r) ; NAmE ˈaʊər /

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