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afternoon

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af·ter·noon1 /ˌɑːftəˈnuːn◂ $ ˌæftər-/ ●●● S1 W2 noun [countableC, uncountableU]  
1  TMCthe part of the day after the morning and before the evening 下午，午后 → morning, evening
 There’s a meeting on Thursday afternoon.
星期四下午有个会议。
 It was very hot in the afternoon.
下午很热。
 See you tomorrow afternoon.
明天下午见。
 Are you going into town this afternoon?
今天下午你进城去吗？
 We met in the early afternoon.
下午较早的时候我们见了面。
 By late afternoon, Micky had changed his mind.
到了傍晚，米基已改变了主意。
 He was having his afternoon nap.
他在睡午觉。
2  afternoons during the afternoon every day （每天）下午
 She only works afternoons.
她只在下午工作。
Examples from the Corpus
afternoons• She only works afternoons.
n COLLOCATIONS
ADJECTIVES/NOUN + afternoon
Monday/Friday/Saturday etc afternoon
Did you see the football on Saturday afternoon?
this afternoon (=today in the afternoon)
I'll come round to your house this afternoon.
early/late afternoon
I arrived in Boston in the early afternoon.
all afternoon/the whole afternoon
You left the lights on all afternoon.
adverbs
tomorrow afternoon
What are you doing tomorrow afternoon?
yesterday afternoon
I went to see mum yesterday afternoon.
AFTERNOON + noun
an afternoon nap (=short sleep)
Dad was having his Sunday afternoon nap.
the afternoon sun
It was too hot to go out in the afternoon sun.
afternoon tea (=a light meal eaten in the afternoon with a cup of tea)
Some people still have afternoon tea at 4 o'clock.
the middle of the afternoon
It was the middle of a long hot summer afternoon.
verbs
spend the afternoon somewhere/doing something
We decided to spend the afternoon in town.
n GRAMMAR: Patterns with afternoon
in the afternoon
You do something in the afternoon:
We went shopping in the afternoon.
✗Don’t say: We went shopping on the afternoon.
on Monday/Tuesday etc afternoon
You do something on Monday/Tuesday etc afternoon:
I usually do the shopping on Friday afternoon.
on the afternoon of something
Something happens on the afternoon of a particular date or event:
Diana was born on the afternoon of July 1,1961.
He had gone there on the afternoon of the murder.
Examples from the Corpus
afternoon• It starts raining and they rush for the car, where they have an afternoon sleep.• This schedule also allots time every afternoon for the teacher to work with children in small group settings.• We did wonder if we would manage to find the place but we located it one wet Sunday afternoon.• So he got in his car and took a check down that afternoon.• Our tickets are for the afternoon performance.• Harry went to sleep in the afternoon.• Do you want to go shopping tomorrow afternoon?• We went swimming on Tuesday afternoon.
afternoon nap• If a group is coming to entertain residents, then bring them in after an afternoon nap.• I had bought him a musical tie which woke him up from an afternoon nap when he rolled on to it.• He waited until Lois came upstairs for her little afternoon nap.• On the road, the girls sleep ten hours a night, eat many and formidable meals and take long afternoon naps.• It was by the rice banks, where a coolness congregates near a coconut grove, that I took my afternoon nap.• Nevertheless, recent research indicates that the body is designed for at least one afternoon nap per day.• The afternoon naps, the quaint hours they keep.• He leads me to a dormitory, where eight boys are settling down into one big bed for their afternoon nap.
afternoon2 interjection British EnglishBrE informal  
used to greet someone when you meet them in the afternoon 下午好
af·ter·noon1 noun →n GRAMMAR1 →n COLLOCATIONS1afternoon2 interjection
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