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hour

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hour /aʊə $ aʊr/ ●●● S1 W1 noun [countableC]   → our
1  60 minutes 六十分钟 (written abbreviation hr)TMC a unit for measuring time. There are 60 minutes in one hour, and 24 hours in one day 小时
 The interview will last about two hours.
面试大概要持续两小时。
 I study for an hour every night.
我每晚学习一小时。
 I’ll be back in three hours.
我三小时以后回来。
 Three hours later he was back.
三小时后他回来了。
 Her bag was stolen within hours of her arrival.
她才到没几个小时，手提包就被偷了。
 You weren’t interested in my story a half hour ago.
半小时之前你还对我讲的事情不感兴趣呢。
 It takes about a quarter of an hour to walk into town.
步行进城大约需要一刻钟。
hour of
 After four hours of talks, an agreement was reached.
经过四小时的商谈，一项协议达成了。
 The hotel is only an hour’s drive from the airport.
那家宾馆离机场只有一小时的车程。
 a top speed of 120 miles an hour
120英里的最高时速
 This was freelance work, paid by the hour.
这是自由工作，按小时计酬。
 a five-hour delay
五小时的延误
2  BUSINESS/WORK ETC 营业/工作等hours [plural]PERIOD OF TIME a fixed period of time in the day when a particular activity, business etc happens 〔某一活动、业务等的固定〕时间
 hours of business 9.00–5.00
9.00-5.00 营业时间: 9点－5点
office/opening hours
 Please call during office hours.
请在办公时间来电。
working hours/hours of work
 the advantages of flexible working hours
弹性工作时间的好处
visiting hours (=the time when you can visit someone in hospital) 探病时间
after hours (=after the time when a business, especially a bar, is supposed to close) 办公[营业]时间之后；〔尤指〕酒吧关门后
Examples from the Corpus
office/opening hours• Box office hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.• She wanted to touch him, but continued to observe the rules that kept them apart during office hours.• Just ring: This facility is available during office hours Monday to Friday.• There could have been no other reason to visit Miss Moorland during office hours.• Compiling such a list was a labour of love - too pleasurable an activity to pursue in office hours.• In contrast to his predecessors who worked at all hours of the day Macmillan tended to keep office hours.• Wives may act as secretaries but there is often difficulty in contracting sub-contractors during normal office hours.• Cuts to police station opening hours.
3  long/regular/late etc hours WORK/DO WORKused to say how long someone works or does things every day, or when they work or do things （工作）时间长/固定/晚等
 the long hours worked by hospital doctors
医院医生很长的工作时间
 Many hospital staff have to work unsocial hours (=work in the evenings and weekends so that they cannot spend time with family or friends).
许多医院员工必须在非正常时间上班。
 She knew that he kept late hours (=stayed up late).
她知道他晚睡。
work all the hours God sends (=work all the time that you can) 利用一切可能的时间工作
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long/regular/late etc hours• It meant long hours for the pilots, flight deck crews, repair crews and cooks.• Instead he spent long hours alone, reading memoranda, and making check marks to indicate the recommendations that he ap-proved.• A junior hospital doctor was telling Virginia Bottomley of the long hours he worked in casualty.• We have acted to reduce the long hours worked by junior doctors in hospitals.• These data are there for the asking, and they can provide a shortcut to long hours of interviews and observations.• It provides leisure time, one of the prime goals for which most men work long hours and years.• He had gone to Peterborough and worked long hours in a canning factory only so that he could own this bike.• During the decline of hand-loom weaving, more and more families were brought under the necessity of working longer hours.
4  time of day 一天里的时间PERIOD OF TIME a particular period or point of time during the day or night 〔一天里的某个〕时间段，时刻
in the early/small hours (of the morning) (=between around midnight and two or three o’clock in the morning) 凌晨时分
 There was a knock on the door in the early hours of the morning.
凌晨时分有人敲门。
 Who can be calling at this late hour? (=used when you are surprised or annoyed by how late at night or early in the morning something is)
谁会这么晚打电话来呢？
daylight/daytime hours
 The park is open during daylight hours.
公园白天开放。
the hours of darkness/daylight literary
 Few people dared to venture out during the hours of darkness.
几乎没有人敢在夜里冒险外出。
unearthly/ungodly hour (=used when you are complaining about how early or late something is) 一大早；很晚〔表示抱怨〕
 We had to get up at some ungodly hour to catch a plane.
我们只得一大早就起床去赶飞机。
at all hours/at any hour (of the day or night) (=at any time) 在任何时间
 If you have a problem, you know you can call at any hour of the day or night.
如果遇到问题，你知道你可以随时打电话来。
 She’s up studying till all hours (=until unreasonably late at night).
她一直学习到深夜。
→ waking hours/life/day etc at waking
5  long time 长时间 [usually plural] informalLONG TIME a long time or a time that seems long 长时间
6  o’clock 钟点TIME/WHAT TIME IS IT the time of the day when a new hour starts, for example one o’clock, two o’clock etc 整点
7  1300/1530/1805 etc hours TIME/WHAT TIME IS ITused to give the time in official or military reports and orders 13时/15时30分/18时 05分等〔官方或军队在报告或命令中使用〕
8  by the hour/from hour to hour FAST/QUICKif a situation is changing by the hour or from hour to hour, it is changing very quickly and very often 〔变化〕快速不断地
9  lunch/dinner hour the period in the middle of the day when people stop work for a meal 午餐时间
Examples from the Corpus
lunch/dinner hour• So, by the late 1980s, the services resembled the kitchen of a fast-food restaurant during a busy lunch hour.• It may be no more than a little park near work or a church that you stop by during lunch hour.• Walk for fifteen minutes each lunch hour.• During her lunch hour she shopped, deliberately avoiding the part of town in which Giles's office was situated.• Friday: the long lunch hour at the York.• I sat through lunch hour staring at a poster of a crab louse magnified to monstrous proportions.
10  important time 重要时刻PERIOD OF TIME [usually singular] an important moment or period in history or in your life 重要时刻[时期]
11  of the hour NOWimportant at a particular time, especially the present time 某一刻〔尤指目前〕
Examples from the Corpus
of the hour• By the end of the hour interview we had found that we liked each other.• It seems to me that he was waylaid and killed round about a quarter or half of the hour past six.• Yeltsin was the hero of the hour.• Party chairman Chris Patten, the tragic hero of the hour, arrived shortly after 11.00 for a lengthy post-mortem.• You ought to be the man of the hour.• That's what makes Bush the man of the hour, for these are indisputably good times.• It was only a question of the hour.• They were the pioneers of a new human experiment in the West and seemed the men and women of the hour.
→ the eleventh hour at eleventh1(2), → hourly, happy hour, rush hour, zero hour
n COLLOCATIONS
phrases
half an hour (also a half hour) (=thirty minutes)
I’ll meet you in half an hour.
(a) quarter of an hour (=fifteen minutes)
Mum was gone for about a quarter of an hour.
three quarters of an hour (=forty-five minutes)
The journey takes three quarters of an hour.
miles/kilometres an hour (=used in speeds)
The speed limit is 65 miles an hour.
£10/$7 etc an hour (=used to say how much someone is paid or how much you pay to use something)
The babysitter charges £5 an hour.
an hour’s/six hours’ etc work (=work that it took you an hour/six hours etc to do)
I did two hours’ work before breakfast.
an hour’s walk/drive etc
It’s about an hour’s drive away.
adverbs
an hour/three hours etc later
An hour later she arrived home.
an hour/three hours etc earlier/before
I had just seen him a few hours earlier.
an hour/three hours etc ago
He left an hour ago.
verbs
take an hour (=something needs an hour to do)
It took about three hours to paint the whole room.
spend an hour
I spent an hour reading.
last (for) an hour
The meeting lasted almost two hours.
pay/charge by the hour (=pay or charge someone according to the number of hours it takes to do something)
You can pay by the hour to hire a boat.
Examples from the Corpus
hour• We serve meals 24 hours a day, seven days a week.• There's something happening on our street at all hours of the day and night.• After we had sat talking for half an hour he asked permission to be excused.• It seemed to Elizabeth that it took people half an hour to greet each other each day.• I anticipate that his direct examination will require at least an hour.• A pea-sized projectile is hurtled into a target at speeds of up to sixteen thousand miles an hour.• This gives you the cost of an hour of your labor.• Normally the others would remain for another hour or so.• I hate telemarketers who call during the dinner hour• The busiest time and peak hours of the reception office will depend on the type of hotel.• For the hour before getting ready she was reminded in ways she would be able to understand in terms of time.• Sir, I'm sorry to bother you at this hour.• We had to get up at some ungodly hour to catch our train.
for an hour• Typically the fisherman is a lone black smudge hunched on his bait-box for hours at a time.• We flew for an hour and in that time I completed a reel of film in my camera.• Been wanting to get them off for hours.• She played the piano for an hour every Thursday at a Northeast Austin retirement home.• He hiked along the road for an hour.• I stood for an hour and a half before working my way up to a seat at the bar.• In the morning he would get up early, lift weights for an hour, and drive to work.
in the early/small hours (of the morning)• She was found in the small hours, more than half-way up, scrabbling at a window as if for air.• A policewoman discovered the blaze which occurred in the early hours of yesterday.• Return will be on Sunday, 2 May, late evening or in the early hours of Monday morning.• House fire: Firefighters were called to a house blaze in Sedgefield in the early hours of Saturday morning.• Some time in the early hours they had reached Madeira.• Finally it was Trondur in the small hours of the morning who succeeded.• If you plan to stay up on election night, you could sustain yourself in the small hours with freshly baked pizza.
for hours (on end)• We lay awake for hours, each immersed in his or her own thoughts.• He then dressed in her clothes and paraded around the campus for hours until he was arrested.• It seems it is for hours, but neither of us are fighters.• It's gone now, but at the time mentally handicapped patients were locked up in it for hours at a time.• Thus a query and its settlement could easily drag on for hours.• She ranted and raved for hours.• We sat for hours, scowling with concentration, cross-stitching cute little scenes and heartfelt sayings on squares of linen.• It was unclear for hours after the crash how many people had died.
strike/chime the hour• The bells in a far steeple began chiming the hour.• It has no dial or hands but strikes the hours.• Dennis arrived just before the clock chimed the hour.• We stand with them for the last gloomy minutes till the clock strikes the hour.• Then he lay trembling on his stone bed and listened to the clock striking the hours.• The great bells of the Immaculate Conception chimed the hour.• He heard the library clock faintly chiming the hour over towards the Butts Estate and sighed a deep and heartfelt sigh.
somebody’s hour of need/glory etc• Besides, how could he abandon his father now, in his hour of need?• But at least there was liquid refreshment on hand in Ted's hour of need.• Is there anyone, anyone at all, to whom he might go in his hour of need?• It might also be that Chesnais needed an hour of glory quickly.• Right-wing columnists are refusing to rally to Mr Major in his hour of need.
Origin hour
(1100-1200) Old French heure, from Latin hora, from Greek
hour noun →n COLLOCATIONS1
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