0 a period of 60 minutes -- 小時
There are 24 hours in a day. 一天有24小時。
How many hours' sleep do you need? 你需要睡多少個小時？
I'll be back in an hour's/two hours' time (= after one/two hours). 我會在一小時／兩小時之後回來。
My hometown is an hour from Houston/an hour away (= it takes an hour to travel there). 我家鄉離休斯頓有一小時的路程。
He gets paid by the hour (= gets a particular amount of money for each hour he works). 他拿的是按小時計酬的工資。
Trains leave every hour on the hour (= at exactly one o'clock, two o'clock, etc.). 火車每小時整點開車。
Buses leave at ten minutes past/to the hour (= at ten past/to one o'clock, two o'clock, etc.). 公共汽車每整點過10分／差10分開一班車。
formal War was declared at eighteen hundred hours/18.00 hours (= at six o'clock in the evening). 宣戰時間是晚上六點。
Our opening hours are from 8.00 to 6.00. 我們的開放時間是八點到六點。
Who could be calling us at this unearthly/ungodly hour (= so late at night)? 誰會在夜裡這麼晚給我們打電話？
He returned in the early/small hours (= at night, after midnight). 他淩晨才回來。
She's a nurse so she often works unsocial hours. 她是名護士，所以經常要上早班、值夜班。
I waited for him for hours. 我等了他很長時間。
They keep calling me at all hours (of the day and night). 他們整天不停地給我打電話。
The trip from York to Newcastle takes about an hour by train.
We had to queue for three hours to get in.
As a teacher you could expect to be paid anywhere between £7 and £15 per hour.
Since many immigrants are planning to stay only temporarily, they frequently want to work extra hours to earn more.
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Twenty-four hours later, all hemodynamic parameters had returned to the initial values.
