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Collins English-Chinese Dictionary
- hour ['auər]
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1.
noun
[c]
小时
- 2. noun [s] [frm] (time) 时间
- 3. n pl (ages) 很长时间
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4.
n pl
(in job) 工作时间
- I worked quite irregular hours.
- 我的工作时间很不固定。
- office/visiting hours
- 办公/参观时间
- the buses leave on the hour
- 每小时正点有一班公共汽车
- in the early {or} small hours
- 凌晨
- after hours
- 工作结束后
- at all hours of the day and night
- 白天和晚上任何时候
- for three/four hours
- 三/四个小时
- They slept for two hours.
- 他们睡了两个小时。
- (at) 60 kilometres/miles an {or} per hour
- 每小时60公里/英里
- to pay sb by the hour
- 按小时付费给某人
- lunch hour
- 午餐时间
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1.
noun
[c]
小时
Comprehensive English-Chinese Dictionary
- hour [aʊər] [auə]
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- 1. noun 小时，钟头，六十分钟
- 2. noun （标志一小时的）钟点
- 3. noun 时间的一点（或一段）；尤指（某项活动或场合的固定）时间，时刻
- 4. noun 时间的一点（或一段）；尤指时期，一段时间
- 5. noun [复数形态时]时间的一点（或一段）；尤指工作（或接待病人等的）时间
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6.
noun
[复数形态时]时间的一点（或一段）；尤指作息时间
- to keep late hours
- 晚睡晚起
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7.
noun
（二十四小时连续计时制中的）…点钟
- arrival at 14:30 hours
- 十四点三十分到达
- 8. noun （以正常时速所走的）行程
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9.
noun
[astronomy]
小时，赤径十五度
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10.
noun
[Christianism]
【同义词】canonical hour
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11.
noun
[Christianism]
（在规定的祈祷时刻作的）祈祷文
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12.
noun
[American English]
[pedagogics]
课时
Collins English-English Dictionary
- hour [aυə]
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1.
n
a period of time equal to 3600 seconds; 1/24th of a calendar day
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2.
n
any of the points on the face of a timepiece that indicate intervals of 60 minutes
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3.
n
the time of day as indicated by a watch, clock, etc
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4.
n
the period of time allowed for or used for something
- the lunch hour
- the hour of prayer
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5.
n
a special moment or period
- our finest hour
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6.
n
the distance covered in an hour
- we live an hour from the city
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7.
n
[astronomy]
an angular measurement of right ascension equal to 15° or a 24th part of the celestial equator
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8.
n
See also hours
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9.
n
[Etymology]
C13: from Old French hore, from Latin h
o ra, from Greek: season
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1.
n
a period of time equal to 3600 seconds; 1/24th of a calendar day
Examples
- two an hour
- 每小时两(个) → an
- an anxious hour
- 焦急不安的时刻 → anxious
- at twenty miles per hour
- 以每小时20英里的速度 → at
- It took the best part of an hour.
- 这花去了大半个钟头。 → best
- It took better than an hour.
- 花了一个多钟头。 → better
- The clock boomed the hour.
- 这口钟报时的钟声洪亮。 → boom
- to work by the hour
- 按钟点工作 → by
- Dinner has been done for an hour.
- 饭菜预备就绪已经有一个钟头了。 → do
- do 100 miles an hour
- 以每小时100英里的速度行驶 → do
- The prescribed dosage is 1/2 teaspoon every hour
- 处方规定的用量是每小时服半茶匙。 → dosage
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