noun
小时
60 minutes; one of the 24 parts that a day is divided into
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 hour and 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 £3.20 an hour .
最低工资定为每小时3.20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。
约一小时的时间
a period of about an hour, used for a particular purpose
I use the Internet at work, during my lunch hour .
我上班时在午餐时间使用互联网。
(工作、办公等的)固定时间
a fixed period of time during which people work, an office is open, etc.
Opening hours are from 10 to 6 each day.
营业时间为每天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。
某个时间
a particular point in time
You can't turn him away at this hour of the night.
天这么晚了,你不能把他赶走。
长时间
a long time
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。”
重要时刻
the time when sth important happens
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 hour had 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。
整点
the time when it is exactly 1 o'clock, 2 o'clock, etc.
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。
(按24小时制给出的时间,通常用于军事或其他官方语言)点钟
used when giving the time according to the 24-hour clock, usually in military or other official language
any time, especially a time which is not usual or suitable
他已经开始在外面待得很晚了。
He's started staying out till all hours (= until very late at night) .
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。
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.
the period of time very early in the morning, soon after midnight
我们一直工作到了午夜之后。
We worked well into the small hours.
The fighting began in the early hours of Saturday morning.
战斗在星期六凌晨打响了。
to spend time doing sth that is not important while you are waiting for sth else to happen
我们打纸牌消磨时间。
We killed time playing cards.
very early, especially when this is annoying
这工作需要起大早赶头班火车。
The job involved getting up at some unearthly hour to catch the first train.
very early or very late and therefore annoying
hour
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N-COUNT 小时
An hour is a period of sixty minutes.They waited for about two hours...
他们等了约两小时。
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N-PLURAL 长时间
People say that something takes or lasts hours to emphasize that it takes or lasts a very long time, or what seems like a very long time.Getting there would take hours.
去那里要花很长时间。
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N-SING (时钟的)钟点,整点
A clock that strikes the hour strikes when it is exactly one o'clock, two o'clock, and so on. -
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N-SING 时间;时刻
You can refer to a particular time or moment as a particular hour ....the hour of his execution...
处决他的时间
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N-COUNT (人一生中的某个)时候,时期
If you refer, for example, to someone's hour of need or hour of happiness, you are referring to the time in their life when they are or were experiencing that condition or feeling.He recalled her devotion to her husband during his hour of need.
他回忆起她在丈夫困难之时的忠贞奉献。
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N-PLURAL (每天发生或进行某事的)特定时间,固定时间
You can refer to the period of time during which something happens or operates each day as the hours during which it happens or operates....the hours of darkness...
夜晚
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N-PLURAL (每周的)工作时间
If you refer to the hours involved in a job, you are talking about how long you spend each week doing it and when you do it.I worked quite irregular hours...
我的工作时间相当不固定。
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PHRASE 下班后;营业(或办公、学习)时间以后
If you do something after hours, you do it outside normal business hours or the time when you are usually at work....a local restaurant where steel workers unwind after hours...
钢厂工人下班后去放松一下的当地餐馆
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PHRASE 在(某一时段的)任何时刻
If you say that something happens at all hours of the day or night, you disapprove of it happening at the time that it does or as often as it does.She didn't want her fourteen-year-old daughter coming home at all hours of the morning.
她不希望自己14岁的女儿凌晨才回家。
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PHRASE 在凌晨;在下半夜
If something happens in the early hours or in the small hours, it happens in the early morning after midnight.Gibbs was arrested in the early hours of yesterday morning.
吉布斯于昨天凌晨被捕。
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PHRASE 长时间地;不停地
If you say that someone does something hour after hour, you are emphasizing that they do it continually for a long time.He and my mom were arguing every night, hour after hour.
他和我妈妈每天晚上都吵个不停。
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PHRASE 整点地
If something happens on the hour, it happens every hour at, for example, nine o'clock, ten o'clock, and so on, and not at any number of minutes past an hour. -
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PHRASE 整点差…分/ 整点过…分
If you want to state the time exactly, you can give a number of minutes followed by before the hour or past the hour . -
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PHRASE 在通常营业(或工作、学习)时间之外
Something that happens out of hours happens at a time that is not during the usual hours of business or work.Teachers refused to run out of hours sports matches because they weren't being paid.
教师拒绝课余安排体育比赛,因为他们不会获得薪酬。
noun
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- distance measured by the time taken to cover it
- we live an hour from the airport
- its just 10 minutes away
- Synonym: minute
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- a period of time equal to 1/24th of a day
- the job will take more than an hour
- Synonym: hr 60 minutes
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- clock time
- the hour is getting late
- Synonym: time of day
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- a special and memorable period
- it was their finest hour
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It will take about an hour to get there .
到那里大约需要一小时。
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It takes at least an hour to get home from work .
下班回家至少得花一个小时。
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The treatment should be repeated every two to three hours .
这种治疗方法应该每隔两到三小时重复一次。
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It took two hours to bring the fire under control .
花了两个小时才控制住火势。
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Do it now please ─ not in three hours ' time .
请现在就干,而不是三个小时之后。
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There are only so many hours in a day .
一天不过这么几个小时。
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We 're talking £ 500 for three hours ' work .
咱们讲的可是工作三个小时酬金500英镑。
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The first 24 hours after the operation are the most critical .
病人手术后头24小时是最危险的。
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It took two hours to put out the fire .
用了两小时才把火扑灭。
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My life is further complicated by having to work such long hours .
我得工作这么长的时间,因此生活中的麻烦事就更多了。
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I could only devote two hours a day to the work .
我一天只能在这个工作上花两个小时。
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We finally came to an understanding about what hours we would work .
我们最终就工作时间问题取得了一致意见。
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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。
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The union is in dispute with management over working hours .
工会与资方在工作时间上发生纠纷。
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I use the Internet at work , during my lunch hour .
我上班时在午餐时间使用互联网。
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The journey took her the better part of an hour .
旅程花去了她半个多小时。
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I should imagine it will take about three hours .
我想得用差不多三个小时吧。
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They won 't arrive for at least two hours yet .
他们至少要过两个小时才能到。
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You may do as you wish outside working hours .
不在上班时间,你爱干什么就干什么。
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You can telephone your order 24 hours a day .
一天24小时你都可以打电话订购。
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I need about an hour to finish off this report .
我需要一小时左右结束这篇报告。
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This is the only place to get a drink after hours .
这是酒吧正常关门时间之后唯一能喝一杯的地方。
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There was so much traffic that we were an hour late .
路上车辆那么多,我们迟到了一个小时。
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One and a half hours are allowed for the exam .
考试时间为一个半小时。
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Opening hours are from 10 to 6 each day .
营业时间为每天10点到6点。
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She spends two hours a day getting to work and back again .
她每天上班来回要花两小时。
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She only became coherent again two hours after the attack .
她发病两小时之后才恢复了清楚地说话的能力。
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All that money for two hours ' work ─ what 's the catch ?
干了两小时的活就给那么多钱——这里面有什么鬼?
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She does an hour 's piano practice every day .
她每天练一小时钢琴。
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The hours of the job are incompatible with family life .
这份工作的上班时间和家庭生活有冲突。
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