hour是什么意思

详细释义

• 0 a period of 60 minutes -- 小时

  • The exam lasted an hour and a half. 考试持续了一个半小时。

  • There are 24 hours in a day. 1天有24小时。

  • How many hours' sleep do you need? 你需要睡多少个小时？

  • I'll be back in an hour's/two hours' time (= after one/two hours). 我会在一小时／两小时之后回来。

  • My hometown is an hour from Houston/an hour away (= it takes an hour to travel there). 我家乡离休斯顿有一小时的路程。

  • He gets paid by the hour (= gets a particular amount of money for each hour he works). 他拿的是按小时计酬的工资。

  • Trains leave every hour on the hour (= at exactly one o'clock, two o'clock, etc.). 火车每小时整点发车。

  • Buses leave at ten minutes past/to the hour (= at ten past/to one o'clock, two o'clock, etc.). 公共汽车每整点过10分／差10分发一班车。

  • formal War was declared at eighteen hundred hours/18.00 hours (= at six o'clock in the evening). 宣战时间是晚上6点。

  • I try to spend my lunch hour walking. 我试着把午餐时间用在步行上。

  • office/working hours 办公／工作时间

  • Our opening hours are from 8.00 to 6.00. 我们的开放时间是8点到6点。

  • Who could be calling us at this unearthly/ungodly hour (= so late at night)? 谁会在夜里这么晚给我们打电话？

  • He returned in the early/small hours (= at night, after midnight). 他凌晨才回来。

  • She's a nurse so she often works unsocial hours. 她是名护士，所以经常要上早班、值夜班。

  • He's paid well but he works long hours. 他薪水很高，可是工作时间也很长。

  • I waited for him for hours. 我等了他很长时间。

  • They keep calling me at all hours (of the day and night). 他们整天不停地给我打电话。