hour
美 [aʊr] 
英 [ˈaʊə(r)]
- n.小时；整点；约一小时的时间；（工作、办公等的）固定时间
- 网络钟头；时刻；点钟
词形变化
复数：hours 同义词
英汉双解
1. | [c] 小时60 minutes; one of the 24 parts that a day is divided into |
| It will take about an hour to get there. 到那里大约需要一小时。 |
| The interview lasted half an hour. 会见持续了半小时。 |
| It was a three-hour exam. 那是三小时的考试。 |
| I waited for an hour and then I left. 我等了一个小时，然后就走了。 |
| He'll be back in an hour . 他一小时后回来。 |
| We're paid by the hour . 我们是论小时获得报酬的。 |
| The minimum wage was set at £5.80 an hour . 最低工资定为每小时 5.80 英镑。 |
| Top speed is 120 miles per hour . 最高时速为 120 英里。 |
| York was within an hour's drive. 开车到约克不会超过一小时。 |
| Chicago is two hours away(= it takes two hours to get there) . 到芝加哥需要两小时。 |
| We're four hours ahead of New York(= referring to the time difference) . 我们比纽约早四个小时。 |
| We hope to be there within the hour(= in less than an hour) . 我们希望一小时内到达那里。 |
2. | [c][ususing] 约一小时的时间a period of about an hour, used for a particular purpose |
| I use the Internet at work, during my lunch hour . 我上班时在午餐时间使用互联网。 |
3. | [pl] （工作、办公等的）固定时间a fixed period of time during which people work, an office is open, etc. |
| Opening hours are from 10 to 6 each day. 营业时间为每天 10 点到 6 点。 |
| Most people in this kind of job tend to work long hours . 多数从事这种工作的人往往工作时间很长。 |
| What are your office hours ? 你的办公时间是几点到几点？ |
| a hospital's visiting hours 医院的探视时间 |
| Britain's licensing hours(= when pubs are allowed to open) used to be very restricted. 英国的酒吧营业时间从前受到很严格的限制。 |
| This is the only place to get a drink after hours(= after the normal closing time for pubs) . 这是酒吧正常关门时间之后唯一能喝一杯的地方。 |
| Clients can now contact us by email out of hours(= when the office is closed) . 现在办公时间以外顾客可以用电邮和我们联系。 |
| It took hours getting there. 花了好长时间才到那里。 |
| I've been waiting for hours . 我等了很久了。 |
| ‘How long did it last?’ ‘Oh, hours and hours .’ “持续了多久？”“噢，很久很久。” |
5. | [sing] 某个时间a particular point in time |
| You can't turn him away at this hour of the night. 天这么晚了，你不能把他赶走。 |
6. | [c][ususing] 重要时刻the time when sth important happens |
| This was often thought of as the country's finest hour . 一般认为这是该国最美好的一段时光。 |
| She thought her last hour had come. 她以为她生命的最后时刻到了。 |
| Don't desert me in my hour of need . 不要在我困难的时候离开我。 |
7. | [sing] 整点the time when it is exactly 1 o'clock, 2 o'clock, etc. |
| There's a bus every hour on the hour . 每小时整点有一班公共汽车。 |
| The clock struck the hour . 钟敲过整点了。 |
8. | [pl] （按 24 小时制给出的时间，通常用于军事或其他官方用语）点钟used when giving the time according to the 24-hour clock, usually in military or other official language |
| The first missile was launched at 2300 hours(= at 11 p.m.) . 首枚导弹是在 23 点（晚上 11 点）发射的。 |
英汉解释
n. | 5. 固定时间;课时;【宗】天主教的定时祈祷,祈祷文 |
英英解释
例句
It's a shame. Will this afternoon be all right? But I can only spare you an hour and a half today, from four o'clock.
真遗憾。今天下午行吗？不过我只能抽出一个半小时，从四点开始。
The author recounts that Rhonda ignored his advice, and came out of Jackie's room less than half an hour later, feeling utterly used.
作者写到郎达忽略了他的意见，半个小时后从他哥哥的房间里出来，看来被彻底的掏空了。
The student spent almost an hour trying to puzzle out the meaning of this difficult sentence.
这个学生花了近一个小时思索出这难句的意思。
OK, I'll be back in about an hour. If you think of anything else you need, give me a call.
好的，我一个小时后回来。如果你想到有什麽其它需要的话，打电话给我。
Give it a day of the plan: the morning get up at 7 o 'clock, after getting up the road running around the village for half an hour.
给自己定了一天的计划：早上7点起床，起床后围着小区的那条路跑步半个小时。
"But the chances of him giving you a half an hour on a Wednesday afternoon in a hotel are probably much better. "
但是让他在某个周三下午和你在酒店房间发生半个小时关系的可能性却很大。
It was an hour-and-a-half trip each way, and I was a heavy boy, much heavier than I am as an adult.
单程需要一个半小时，而且我很重，童年的我比成年的我要重得多。
Packet how much money an hour?
包一个小时多少钱？
A Well, let's ask how much it costs. Half an hour is enough for me.
A哦，咱们问问需要多少钱。半小时对我足够了。
Don't worry about something that will take place in a week, a day, or even an hour.
不要担心那些将在一周、一天甚至一小时后发生的事。
If that seems a little much, try taking it easy for about an hour or so before you plan on going to bed.
如果这貌似长了点儿，试试上床前一个小时左右就开始放松。
Boiled some onions and left them on the coffee table for an hour, she is now walking around and I feel so much better.
水煮一些洋葱，并把它们在咖啡桌上放上一小时，她现在已经能到处走了，我也感觉好多了。
How much fun can anyone have in an hour?
每位宾客在一个小时里能得到多少乐子呢？
Wong still works five days a week, spending his entire eight-hour shift on his feet.
黄海仍然坚持每个礼拜工作五天，在当班的八小时中从头站到尾。
Your homework is done, your computer is updated, and they're still trying to get out of the driveway an hour later.
你的作业给做好了，你的电脑被升级了，可是一个小时后，他们还没从你家的车道上绕出来。
Please realize that the employees had to leave their friends and families on Thursday to work their 12+ hour shift for you.
请明白店员在周四晚上不得不离开其朋友和家人为你们服务12个对小时。
They decided to work off the effects of a heavy supper by walking for an hour.
他们吃了一餐油腻难消化的晚饭，决定散步一小时帮助消化。
But they did not interfere with the torch, which passed by an hour later.
但是他们没有妨碍一小时后经过这里的火炬。
One is the sales staff said the two-hour battery life, but I had to go out less than half an hour.
一个是销售人员说的电池使用两小时，但我拿出去却半小时不到。
You can put it together, program the demo, and test it out in less than an hour.
您可以在一个小时以内完成组装、编程和测试工作。
The strikers held out for a raise of five cents an hour.
罢工的人坚持要求每小时增加5分钱。
In about an hour's time I had learned to a hundred and I was overjoyed.
一个来小时的工夫，我会数到一百了，简直高兴极了。
We spun out a whole hour waiting for a taxi.
我们整整等了一个小时才叫到一辆出租车。
Drivers in London can expect to average about 12 miles per hour.
估计伦敦的驾车者平均时速为12英里。
It's sunny today, and you'd better remain out for an hour.
今天天气晴好，你最好在户外呆一小时。
After that half-hour all bearers of the Forsyte name would feel the bloom was off the rose.
半小时之后，所有姓福尔赛的人都将有一种水流花谢之感。
The wedding preparations take weeks but the actual ceremony takes less than an hour.
准备婚礼要几周，而婚礼仪式本身还不到一小时。
This argument and the awful weight of the hour quelled the would-be heresy-hunters.
这一论点，以及当时的严重局势，制止了那些所谓的迫害异端的人们。
This new sort of punch could stamp out 3, 000 bonnets an hour.
这种新型冲床每小时可冲压出三千个汽车引擎盖。
Sandy had been singing for an hour straight.
桑迪已经不停地唱了一个钟头。
"You might feel stronger, in an hour or two, " I said.
“过一两个钟头，您就会觉得硬朗些，”我说。
An hour later she went to her mother's room and helped her to dress as usual.
一小时以后，她走进母亲房内，象平时一样服侍她起床。
Thus ended Frank Cowperwood's dreams of what Butler and his political associates might do for him in his hour of distress.
这样就结束了法兰克·柯帕乌要巴特勒和他的政治上的伙伴，能在他处境危难的时候帮助他的梦想。
She disputed with me a quarter of an hour yesterday about the cooking of the beef, she said I boiled it to rags.
昨天为了烧牛肉，她同我吵了一刻钟，说我烧得太烂。
he said to himself that his hour was in sight and that it behaved him to keep his eyes upon it.
他还对自己说，他的日子已屈指可数，他必须清醒地看到这一点。
Madeline said, "The Happy Hour is an old custom all through the service. "
梅德琳说：“这个‘快乐时光’是整个军队里的老传统。”
I don't mind waiting down there for an hour, but I'm not going to stay in this damned hotel shaking with nerves for another minute.
我宁愿在那里等一个小时，也不愿在这个鬼饭店里惶惶不安地再多等一分钟。
The children came in an hour ago, and now they are eating their heads off.
孩子们1小时前回到家，现在正在饱餐。
The sworn foes of the last hour had no thought of anything but to care for those whom, in their fury, they had shot down.
一小时前还是不共戴天的冤家，眼前却不想别的了，只顾照料那些被他们怒气冲冲的开枪打倒的人了。
The ship was sailing before the wind, ten knots an hour.
轮船在顺风行驶，时速10海里。
For an hour now he had been lying in his quarters, tired, hungry and unable to sleep.
现在他在屋子里躺了一个小时了，又累又饿，怎么也睡不着。
They were all unusually hungry, having waited nearly an hour.
她们已经等了将近一个小时，肚子早就饿得发慌了。
We wrestled for an hour, but the longer it went on, the more he realized the strength of his position.
我们较量了一个小时，但越是较量下去，他越看清了自己的地位稳固。
They travelled in the night, halting an hour or two after daybreak, and lying by until the twilight fell.
他们只在夜间行进，天亮后一两点钟就歇下，一直躺着休息到黄昏的时候。
The ladies had reached that vaguely melancholy hour when they felt it necessary to tell each other their histories.
女人们的心情，已经进入那种空洞地悲哀的时辰了，所以她们觉得有把自己的历史互相倾述一下的必要。
It was four o'clock, the hour at which his father had always called him to get up and help with the milking.
以前父亲总是在这个时候叫他起床帮助挤奶。
When Martin read the message, it was a half hour before noon, and he reacted with shock and fear.
马丁读到这条子时是上午十一点半，他的反应是震惊、担心。
"Let's get out, " whispered Jordan, after a somehow wasteful and inappropriate half-hour.
莫名其妙地浪费了半个钟头后，乔丹低声地说：“咱们走开吧。”
"You haven't spoken to me for half an hour, " her daughter went on.
“你已经有半个钟头没睬我了，”她的女儿继续说。
Nim thought, as it always does at dawn, a daily illusion lasting less than half an hour.
尼姆想，每天黎明都一样，这每天一次的幻象持续不到半小时。
He thought a journalist should be able to toss a report together in half an hour.
他认为一个记者应该能在半小时之内写出一篇文章。
These words He spoke in the treasury as He taught in the temple; and no one seized Him, because His hour had not yet come.
这些话是耶稣在殿里施教的时候，在银库那里说的，也没有人拿他，因为他的时候还没有到。
It seems to be going at least 60 miles an hour.
我看至少有60英里的时速。
The next step is to ask volunteers to hang out in iSpace for four two-hour sessions sometime this fall.
下一步就是要在这个秋季请志愿者们在iSpace里呆4次，每次呆2小时。
Also, the North's response appears to have come at least half an hour after the live firing exercise finished.
另外，朝鲜似乎是在实战演习结束至少半个小时后才予以回应的。
Do not fiddle all day, force yourself at least one hour a day to make an effort, otherwise you will loose everything.
不要整天瞎混，强迫你自己一天至少一个小时来做一种努力，否则你会失掉一切。
half - an - hour later several members of the reform came in and drew up to the fireplace , where a coal fire was steadily burning.
半小时后，有些改良俱乐部的会员也都进到大客厅里，挨近生着炭火的壁炉。
It was within half an hour before sunset when we entered the first wood; and a little after sunset, when we came into the plain.
我们走进第一片树林时，离开太阳落下去只有半小时了；等到我们进入那片平地，太阳已经下去了。
Clinton had an hour and a quarter of talks with the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-il, followed by a two-hour dinner with him.
克林顿与朝鲜领导人金正日进行了七十五分钟的对话，又花了两小时共进晚餐。
I could give you to my sons for half an hour. They'd have it out of you!
我完全可以把你交给我的儿子们，他们会在半个小时内让你开口的！
Malai Ni Britain's youngest transsexual is one hour from the very beginning to feel like a girl.
玛莱尼是英国最年轻的变性人之一，从很小时起就觉得自己是个女孩子。
People gave the IDEO that leads a design tide more attention, but seldom allude the IDEO that this hour does not forget to ego innovates.
人们将更多的关注给予了引领设计潮流的IDEO，但极少提及这个时刻不忘自我创新的IDEO。
Others, sensing the limitation of being paid by the hour, are trying to develop new ways to capture the value their work can create.
其他的广告公司也感觉到了以时间决定费用的局限性，努力的寻找创造更大广告价值的方法。
Teaching Difficulty Points: Be able to understand the relationship between speed, hour and distance.
教学难点：理解相遇问题中速度、相遇时间和总路程之间的关系。
If we don't meet up with him within the next hour, he'll pull some of that good cleric moji out and bust us all free.
如果我们一个钟头之内没跟他会合，他就会使出些善良牧师的魔咒把我们都给放出来的。
His wife and his mistress, until an hour ago secure and inviolate, were slipping precipitately from his control.
他的妻子和情妇，直到一小时前还是安安稳稳，不可侵犯的，现在却冷不防正从他的控制下溜走。
Wouldn't you know it, I wound up less than an hour later walking through a shopping mall with a colleague, looking for a place to dine.
你不会知道，我最终把和同事一起逛商场的时间压缩到一小时，然后去找个地方吃饭。
Although I can't speak good english, , I can read it. Then, how much is the overtime pay for an hour?
我虽然英语讲得不好，但我可以读，那么，一小时的加班费是多少？
Gradually adjusting your schedule like this usually works better than suddenly trying to go to sleep an hour earlier.
像这样逐步的调整就寝的时间往往比突然一下子早睡一个时间效果更好。
It took me an hour to place my whole head within the opening so far that I could see him as he lay upon his bed.
我花了一个小时，地点在我的整个头部，开远，我能看见他，因为他在他的床上躺下。
I judged he would be blind drunk in about an hour.
我猜他差不多只要一个钟头就会醉得不省人事。
For nearly an hour the debate continued, with more opposition surfacing and alternative ideas being put forward.
辩论继续了将近一个小时，又提出了一些反对意见和替代方案。
A modern commander in the field is never more than an hour away from home capitals and public opinion.
一个现在战地的指挥官，万不可有一时与本国政府和公众意见脱节。
They were bowling along the motorway at sixty miles per hour.
他们以每小时60英里的速度在高速公路上飞驰。
Some half an hour after Dick's departure, a messenger came, in hot haste, from my Lord of Risingham.
等狄克动身后，大约过了半点钟，火急万分地来了个赖辛汉伯爵的使者。
The pointer of the ampere-hour meter moves from zero to two and goes back to zero again.
安培小时计的指针先从零转到2，然后又回到零。
Let the pudding chill for an hour until set.
把布丁冷却一小时直至凝固成形。
The horses were still floundering through the mud an hour late.
一小时后，马还在泥泞里吃力地行走。
It was the hour when dreams came true.
这是美梦成为现实的时候。
The rent might cost twenty-five to fifty pounds an hour, or more, depending on the computer.
租金每小时可能是25到50英磅，或者更多些，这要看计算机而定。
