hour

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hour的基本意思是“小時”,即60分鐘,是可數(shù)名詞; 也可指“鐘點”,如一點鐘、兩點鐘等,用于正式文體中可用于24小時計時制,但常用復(fù)數(shù)形式。
hour還可用于表示工作、設(shè)施等的“固定時間”,常用復(fù)數(shù)形式; 也可表示“不確定的一段時間”,常用單數(shù)形式; 還可作“某一時刻”解,常用單數(shù)形式。
hour還可表示“一小時的時間或行程”,為可數(shù)名詞。
hour與縮略詞am或pm連用時,通常要用數(shù)字表示。
hour在句中有時也可用作定語。
after hours的意思是“下班后”; at〔till〕 all hours的意思是“在〔到〕任何時候也沒關(guān)系”; at the eleventh hour的意思是“在最后時刻”或“剛好來得及”; on the hour的意思是“在某一整點”; out of hours的意思是“在工作時間之外”。

An hour is a period of sixty minutes.
People say that something takes or lasts hours to emphasize that it takes or lasts a very long time, or what seems like a very long time.
A clock that strikes the hour strikes when it is exactly one o'clock, two o'clock, and so on.
You can refer to a particular time or moment as a particular hour.
If you refer, for example, to someone's hour of need or hour of happiness, you are referring to the time in their life when they are or were experiencing that condition or feeling.
You can refer to the period of time during which something happens or operates each day as the hours during which it happens or operates.
If you refer to the hours involved in a job, you are talking about how long you spend each week doing it and when you do it.
&rarrsee also rush hour
If you do something after hours, you do it outside normal business hours or the time when you are usually at work.
If you say that something happens at all hours of the day or night, you disapprove of it happening at the time that it does or as often as it does.
If something happens in the early hours, in the small hours, or in the wee hours, it happens in the early morning after midnight.
If something happens on 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.