英 [ˈaʊə(r)] 美 [ˈaʊər]
n. 小时；一小时的路程；（工作，办公等的）固定时间；某个时间；长时间；整点，正点；（西派教会中）固定时分短礼拜；（天文）黄经（或赤经）15°
【名】 （Hour）（法）乌尔，（柬）胡（人名）
复数hours
hour /aʊə/ CET4 TEM4
可数名词 An hour is a period of sixty minutes. 小时
They waited for about two hours.
他们等了大约两个钟头。
I only slept about half an hour that night.
那天晚上我只睡了大约半个小时。
复数型名词 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. 很长的一段时间
Getting there would take hours.
到那儿要花很长时间。
单数型名词 A clock that strikes the hour strikes when it is exactly one o'clock, two o'clock, and so on. 整点
She'd heard a clock somewhere strike the hour as she'd slipped from her room.
她悄悄地从自己房间里溜出来时，听到某个地方的一只时钟正在整点报时。
单数型名词 You can refer to a particular time or moment as a particular hour. 时间; 时刻
...the hour of his execution.
…他的死刑执行时间。
可数名词 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. (人生中需要帮助、感到幸福等的) 时刻
He recalled her devotion to her husband during his hour of need.
他回想起她在丈夫需要帮助时所做出的无私奉献。
复数型名词 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. (一天中的某个) 时间段
...the hours of darkness.
…夜间。
Phone us on this number during office hours.
上班时间给我们打这个电话。
复数型名词 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. 工作时间
I worked quite irregular hours.
我的工作时间很不固定。
→see alsorush hour
习语 If you do something after hours, you do it outside normal business hours or the time when you are usually at work. 办公 (或营业) 时间之外
...a local restaurant where steel workers unwind after hours.
…钢铁工人下班后去休息放松的一家当地餐馆。
习语 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. 不分时候
She didn't want her fourteen-year-old daughter coming home at all hours of the morning.
她不希望自己14岁的女儿在半夜凌晨才回家。
习语 If something happens in the early hours, in the small hours, or in the wee hours, it happens in the early morning after midnight. 在凌晨
Gibbs was arrested in the early hours of yesterday morning.
吉布斯在昨天凌晨被捕。
习语 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. 在整点
During this war in the Persian Gulf, NPR will have newscasts every hour on the hour.
在这场海湾战争期间，美国国家公共广播电台会进行整点新闻报道。
a special and memorable period
it was their finest hour
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劝他竣工不打了,他说再赢50万就不打了,如许来来回回又一个多钟头(Hour),他依然赢不敷那50万.他自几也怕再输入去,末了赢125万.
That clock's an hour fast.
那个钟快了一个小时。
They're paid by the hour.
他们的报酬是按小时计算的。
He'll be back in an hour.
他一小时后回来。
"Oh,yes." "Well,we get on the job right away. And in one hour, even less than one hour, we lose the fix.
VOA : special.2009.07.19
They are very aggressive to be type-A people who just simply made two extra hours out of their 24-hour day.
他们渴望成为上等人,甚至希望每天,能多过两个小时。
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It's about maybe half an hour, one hour from Barbados and maybe another hour and half from Puerto Rico.
从巴巴多斯岛到那儿大概要半小时或一小时；从波多黎各到那儿则需要再花上一个半小时。
SpeakingMax英语口语达人 : 和纽约的留学生
This year there are some two-hour plays. There used to be just an hour play and a lot of monologues."
VOA : special.2009.08.05
At least nineteen of the fifty American states are planning to take part in the two thousand ten Earth Hour observance.
VOA : special.2010.03.22
"He took a hostage, held her for close to an hour or more, " Mr Aharonovitch said.
Guille Franco sent a flick against an upright on the hour as Villarreal provided stubborn resistance.
After nearly a half-hour, we finally spot the elk feeding on a nearby ridge.
主要有两种含义：一是Microsoft office Excel 中的 HOUR函数；二是英语单词“小时”的意思。