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hour
- IPA[ˈaʊə]
英式
- a period of time equal to a twenty-fourth part of a day and night and divided into 60 minutes；a more indefinite period of time
noun: hour, plural noun: hours
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名詞
- 1. a period of time equal to a twenty-fourth part of a day and night and divided into 60 minutes an extra hour of daylight in the winter evenings rates of pay were low, starting at £3.20 an hour
- ▪ a more indefinite period of time during the early hours of the morning
- ▪ the distance travelled in one hour Ocean City is less than an hour away
- 2. a time of day specified as an exact number of hours from midnight or midday the clock in the sitting room struck the hour
- ▪ a time specified on the twenty-four-hour clock the first bomb fell at 0051 hours
- ▪ the time as formerly reckoned from sunrise it was about the ninth hour
- 3. a fixed period of time for an activity, such as work, use of a building, etc. the dinner hour licensing hours
- ▪ a particular point in time I wondered if my last hour had come you can't turn him away at this hour
- 4. (in the Western (Latin) Church) a short service of psalms and prayers to be said at a particular time of day, especially in religious communities an organized life of prayer including the canonical hours
- 5. 15° of longitude or right ascension (one twenty-fourth part of a circle).
