hours

英 [ˈaʊəz]

美 [ˈaʊərz , aʊrz]

n.  小时; 约一小时的时间; (工作、办公等的)固定时间
hour的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 小时
  Anhouris a period of sixty minutes.
  1. They waited for about two hours...
     他们等了约两小时。
  2. I only slept about half an hour that night.
     我那天晚上只睡了大约半个小时。
  3. ...a twenty-four hour strike...
     持续24小时的罢工
  4. London was an hour away and by the time I arrived the operation had already been performed.
     伦敦离这里有1小时路程，当我赶到时，手术已经完成了。
• N-PLURAL 长时间
  People say that something takes or lastshoursto emphasize that it takes or lasts a very long time, or what seems like a very long time.
  1. Getting there would take hours.
     去那里要花很长时间。
• （时钟的）钟点，整点
  A clock that strikesthe hourstrikes when it is exactly one o'clock, two o'clock, and so on.
• N-SING 时间;时刻
  You can refer to a particular time or moment as a particularhour.
  1. ...the hour of his execution...
     处决他的时间
  2. The gathering storm had made the day even darker than was usual at this hour.
     即将到来的暴风雨使得天空看起来比平时这个时候更昏暗。
• N-COUNT （人一生中的某个）时候，时期
  If you refer, for example, to someone'shour ofneed orhour ofhappiness, you are referring to the time in their life when they are or were experiencing that condition or feeling.
  1. He recalled her devotion to her husband during his hour of need.
     他回忆起她在丈夫困难之时的忠贞奉献。
  2. ...the darkest hour of my professional life.
     我职业生涯中最黑暗的时期
• N-PLURAL （每天发生或进行某事的）特定时间，固定时间
  You can refer to the period of time during which something happens or operates each day as thehoursduring which it happens or operates.
  1. ...the hours of darkness...
     夜晚
  2. Phone us on this number during office hours.
     上班时间打这个电话给我们。
  3. ...outside prison visiting hours.
     在探监时间以外
• N-PLURAL （每周的）工作时间
  If you refer to thehoursinvolved in a job, you are talking about how long you spend each week doing it and when you do it.
  1. I worked quite irregular hours...
     我的工作时间相当不固定。
  2. The job was easy; the hours were good.
     这份工作很轻松，工作时间也很合适。
• → see:eleventh hour;lunch hour;rush hour
• See also:...a local restaurant where steel workers unwind after hours...Daly kept this school open after hours so it doubled as a community center.after-hours
• PHRASE 在（某一时段的）任何时刻
  If you say that something happensat all hours ofthe day or night, you disapprove of it happening at the time that it does or as often as it does.
  1. She didn't want her fourteen-year-old daughter coming home at all hours of the morning.
     她不希望自己14岁的女儿凌晨才回家。
  2. ...a neighbour's car alarm going off at all hours of the day and night.
     邻居的汽车警报器没日没夜响个不停。
• PHRASE 在凌晨;在下半夜
  If something happensin the early hoursorin the small hours, it happens in the early morning after midnight.
  1. Gibbs was arrested in the early hours of yesterday morning.
     吉布斯于昨天凌晨被捕。
• PHRASE 长时间地;不停地
  If you say that someone does somethinghour after hour, you are emphasizing that they do it continually for a long time.
  1. He and my mom were arguing every night, hour after hour.
     他和我妈妈每天晚上都吵个不停。
• 整点地
  If something happenson the hour, it happens every hour at, for example, nine o'clock, ten o'clock, and so on, and not at any number of minutes past an hour.
• 整点差…分/ 整点过…分
  If you want to state the time exactly, you can give a number of minutes followed bybefore the hourorpast the hour.
• PHRASE 在通常营业（或工作、学习）时间之外
  Something that happensout of hourshappens at a time that is not during the usual hours of business or work.
  1. Teachers refused to run out of hours sports matches because they weren't being paid.
     教师拒绝课余安排体育比赛，因为他们不会获得薪酬。

英英释义

noun

• an indefinite period of time
  1. they talked for hours
• a period of time assigned for work
  1. they work long hours

双语例句

• They have extended the deadline by twenty-four hours.
  他们已经将最后期限延长了24小时。
• They waited for about two hours
  他们等了约两小时。
• She spent hours practising the breast stroke.
  她花了数小时练习蛙泳。
• I queued for two hours to get a ticket to see the football game
  我排了两个小时的队，就是为了买张足球赛的票。
• It's astonishing, he's learned Latin in three hours!
  他花了3个小时就学会了拉丁文，真让人吃惊！
• I had been standing in line for three hours.
  我已经排了3个小时的队。
• He had spent several hours mixing cement
  他花了几个小时搅拌水泥。
• The campfire smouldered for hours after the blaze died out.
  营火在火焰熄灭后闷烧了好几个小时。
• By the time the tests took place, the athletes had had a full 17 hours notice.
  到检测开始时，离运动员得到通知已经整整17个小时了。
• He's already been gone four hours!
  他已经离开4个小时了！